Not Quite the Ocean

When you are a teacher, you wait all year for spring break.

I wish I could jet off to some 

fabulously warm, exotic locale, 
but that just isn't in the budget so here I am.

Spring bulbs get all the attention but I love the solid reliability of pulmonaria.

But that's ok. I love quiet days alone at home where the only person I have to deal with is myself. Music plays and I just putter: inside, outside, upstairs, down. Even when I say I'm doing nothing, I'm always doing something. But sometimes what I really love is silence and to lose myself in a project. I slip inside myself, shut out the world, and just create.

To brighten a dark spot on my front porch, I made another mosaic pot and added a handmade copper birdhouse purchased from Etsy.

How to Make a Mosaic Pot

Step 1:

Buy a pot. I've only done this twice and have used thick ceramic or fiberglass pots each time.

Step 2:

Dilute some cheapo wood glue with enough water to make it easy to spread and paint the pot with the glue. Let it dry.

Step 3:

Mix concrete with enough water to make it spreadable and spread it on the pot. It needs to be a bit thick. I used a cheap pointy tiling trowel to make it appear that I actually knew what I was doing. 

Step 4:

Stick stuff in the concrete. Let it dry and you're done. You don't need to grout anything. Even calling this a mosaic is a stretch but describing it as a "cheap concrete covered pot with stuff stuck in it" is a bit wordy. I organized all my glass pieces before I began but a "What the heck! Let's just stick stuff in concrete" approach works well, too.

My art studio doubles as the front porch.

I stuck flat backed glass pieces randomly into the concrete and

 made it up as I went.

I like how bubbly it is. It reminds me of the ocean.

I love the warmth of copper and have many copper art pieces through out the garden. This birdhouse is functional as well as decorative.