Here’s a new mosaic – a boreal chickadee, made from Italian smalti glass tiles, grouted, on a wood ground. Many more of our mosaics can be seen at the Long Branch Mosaic site.
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The Owl and the Butterfly
The owl used to hang where the giant butterfly now hangs at 27th Street. Today I hung the owl on the other side of the garage. That owl seemed huge when we made it, but the monarch makes it seem as if the owl should… Read More
Giant monarch at 27th Street
Tuffy P created this new giant mosaic monarch butterfly for the front of our house. See lots more mosaics on our Long Branch Mosaics site.
6-Penny Butterfly
Here’s a small butterfly Tuffy P made as a gift… Some of our butterfly mosaics (for instance The Brain Project) depict actual butterfly species. Others like this one are improvisational and imaginary. We do custom mosaics for gardens or interiors. We’ll even make mosaics using… Read More
The Paris Bear
The Paris Bear is our latest large-scale mosaic project. This grizzly bear mosaic, which we recently installed at a beautiful home in Paris Ontario, is about 5 feet tall and 4 feet wide. It’s made with a combination of materials including broken crockery and smalti… Read More
Scarlett Tanager sighting…

The Long Branch Robin
I always associate spring with robins, so it’s fitting we have completed the Long Branch Robin mosaic just as spring has begun. To see some detail shots, visit our Long Branch Mosaics site. The robin is made from broken crockery, beads, buttons, stones and more.… Read More
It must be almost spring…
There are robins around…. To see more mosaics visit the Long Branch Mosaics blog. Tuffy P and I do custom mosaic work.
Snowy owl with star
We hung one of the snowy owls out on the deck. It’s beside a star, one of our early mosaics. There are loads of mosaic pics over at our Long Branch mosaics site, if you’re interested in seeing some of our other work. Next up,… Read More
Hanging Day
Not that kind of hanging. Mosaic hanging day. We took advantage of the nice weather to hang one of the snowy owl mosaics and also a butterfly mosaic. This was good timing because just yesterday, Tuija (who walks the partners when we’re at work)… Read More