Update on the Upland Mosaic.....

The first of the two five foot round mosaics that we are making for the Upland Kingdom Hall is starting to take shape. We started forming the tall grasses with different color green glass and these will be carefully filled in with more glass of different shades.
You can see that the hills are starting to take form also in the backround. Different color rectangle shaped glass is being cut to form the rolling hills.

Small rounded pieces of glass are being placed to form the ground and surrounding dirt areas.

The flowers have been redone at least four times until we finally came up with something that we all liked.  We are still not sure of the pebbles surrounding the flowers, these most likely will have a redo also until we perfect our look.

We finally came up with a design that we liked for the cactus. Still working out the dirt areas.

The horizon is looking great! and the hills are taking form.

It is a slow process but with much help from the many talented friends and much patience cutting all of this glass we just might have this one complete by the end of August....

These different color pieces of glass are being hand cut by the friends. They are very time consuming to cut and to make it worst we decided that they were too big so now we are cutting them in half! Double the work and we need so much more!  Help! Anyone who would like to come and cut glass!!!!
Much of this work on the mosaic is the very important task of cutting glass, which is very time consuming but VERY IMPORTANT.
Placing the glass on the design is just one aspect that goes into this mosaic and you can work on a section for hours and then decided that you don't like it and redo it at least four times before you get the right feel....

This little arm of a cactus got a different pattern than the other cactus because it was shaped different and it needed something different.

The hills are taking form...

These cactus were formed by cutting out diamond shapes of glass and insetting these small globs.....

Maggie has been working tirelessly on this section of the mosaic and it is beautiful!!!!

This project has been a lot of work but it has been so enjoyable working with such talented and willing friends.  Everyone is just happy to have a part and are willing to do any task that is asked of them.  Some come to cut glass, some come to clean up, some come to bring food, some come to add their input, some come to just check it out.  So if your in the neighborhood, stop by and check it out!!!