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floor mosaic project
Jul. 10th, 2016 07:36 pmOk, this is just a ... idle idea. I guess. I mean, I'd love to do it, but I don't know if I will. *shrug*
So, I'd like to make a floor mosaic. I've been wanting to do something like this for a while. I've been thinking about putting a mosaic down on the entrance way of the house here in Lansing. So I'm just going to write about it a little here; it may never happen.
The area is the entrance way and hall, an L-shaped space where the bottom of the L goes along the front door and the stairs to the second floor, and the long part of the L edges the living room and leads to the dining room. I would guess that from the door to the dining room is about fifteen feet, and it's about four feet wide.
The theme is cats and gardens. I want to include all of the cats, even Morgan, whom we lost a few years ago.
(A side note: Last week I was sure that our old fellow, Buddy, had crawled off somewhere and died. We got him when he started living under our trailer, back in 2011, and he was old then. When we moved to the house in '12, we figured he might last the winter. Anyway, I hadn't seen him in a few days, and when I went to pick up Luke from his friend's house, I talked to him about how Buddy was probably gone. We were driving up to the house, and I said, "He was so old; he had a good life with us." And as I pulled into the driveway, the headlights caught the figure of a cat. "Look!" Luke pointed, "It's Buddy!"
I sighed. "Yep."
Luke laughed. "Don't be so disappointed!")
So, we have ten cats that live inside and another three or four that come up to the porch to eat. In the house there's Buddy, the color of oranges and creme; Lulu, petite and grey, with a striped tail; Lulu's kittens, Bandit, a brown taby, Miss Pickles, a grey tabby tuxedo, and Patrick and Louie, both dove grey tuxedos; Annie, a brown tabby tuxedo; Dexter, a Garfield; Morgan, orange tabby with a white chest, not as big as Dexter; Steve, a long, thin orange tabby; Portia (who used to live on the porch); a muted calico; and finally Squiggy, mostly borwn with some rusty tabby markings. Outside, there's Lenny, a lean, muscular brown tabby; Persephone, a less-muted calico, maybe Portia's sister; and Ichabod, another grey tuxedo, and maybe Patrick and Louie's half-feral half-brother. There was a small feral black tuxudo we called Mouse because he was so skittish, but I haven't seen him since spring. And Persephone may have had kittens.
All of the inside cats are fixed.
I think each cat will be about the size of a hand or two, and look something like this: ( Read more... )
So, I'd like to make a floor mosaic. I've been wanting to do something like this for a while. I've been thinking about putting a mosaic down on the entrance way of the house here in Lansing. So I'm just going to write about it a little here; it may never happen.
The area is the entrance way and hall, an L-shaped space where the bottom of the L goes along the front door and the stairs to the second floor, and the long part of the L edges the living room and leads to the dining room. I would guess that from the door to the dining room is about fifteen feet, and it's about four feet wide.
The theme is cats and gardens. I want to include all of the cats, even Morgan, whom we lost a few years ago.
(A side note: Last week I was sure that our old fellow, Buddy, had crawled off somewhere and died. We got him when he started living under our trailer, back in 2011, and he was old then. When we moved to the house in '12, we figured he might last the winter. Anyway, I hadn't seen him in a few days, and when I went to pick up Luke from his friend's house, I talked to him about how Buddy was probably gone. We were driving up to the house, and I said, "He was so old; he had a good life with us." And as I pulled into the driveway, the headlights caught the figure of a cat. "Look!" Luke pointed, "It's Buddy!"
I sighed. "Yep."
Luke laughed. "Don't be so disappointed!")
So, we have ten cats that live inside and another three or four that come up to the porch to eat. In the house there's Buddy, the color of oranges and creme; Lulu, petite and grey, with a striped tail; Lulu's kittens, Bandit, a brown taby, Miss Pickles, a grey tabby tuxedo, and Patrick and Louie, both dove grey tuxedos; Annie, a brown tabby tuxedo; Dexter, a Garfield; Morgan, orange tabby with a white chest, not as big as Dexter; Steve, a long, thin orange tabby; Portia (who used to live on the porch); a muted calico; and finally Squiggy, mostly borwn with some rusty tabby markings. Outside, there's Lenny, a lean, muscular brown tabby; Persephone, a less-muted calico, maybe Portia's sister; and Ichabod, another grey tuxedo, and maybe Patrick and Louie's half-feral half-brother. There was a small feral black tuxudo we called Mouse because he was so skittish, but I haven't seen him since spring. And Persephone may have had kittens.
All of the inside cats are fixed.
I think each cat will be about the size of a hand or two, and look something like this: ( Read more... )