Garden Mosaic Sun Face For Under $1.00

October 30th, 2008 in member junk

rosiemoonbeams, member

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Mosaic Sunface

Finished size 13 1/2" x 19 1/2".

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I picked up the clay sun face at my local thrift store for $.50. I decided to make a mosaic wall hanging for out in my garden. Using mastic I mounted the sun face on a scrap piece of plywood, and surrounded it with various sizes of glass babbles. I bordered that with scrap pieces of tiles and stone (free). The little gray corner tiles at the bottom were found at Habitat for 10 cents each. I finished the whole thing off with a wood frame that I painted to match the sun face. The sun face was chipped on the nose and some other places so I just used the paint that I mixed up to do touch ups. Then to finish it off I used pearl grout, which was also a freebie. So total cost for materials was 70 cents + tax. Finished size 13 1/2" x 19 1/2".

Pattern or design used: My own design - rosiemoonbeams

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Comments (7)

KimberlyMelamed writes: mr. Sun, sun, mr. golden sun... he sure makes me smile. Both because he is adorable and because of the way he was made. Fab use of reclaimed materials! Way to go rosiemoonbeams!
Posted: 11:23 am on November 4th

csudderth writes: This is really cute and the price is right! Great job.
Christy Posted: 9:59 pm on November 2nd

AtticusFinch writes: Hey fun Rosie Moon. I have his cousins in my backyard on the fence. Posted: 6:08 pm on November 2nd

MimiToria writes: What a great project you've created with very little cost. It really has a great combination of found/recycled items in it which turned this into a garden gem. Thanks for sharing the details of how you did this. I love it when posts have details like this along with the photos.
Gretchen Posted: 8:52 am on November 2nd

kopykatkim writes: Such a beautiful smiling face!!!! He would reign in any flower garden. Great way of using up free resources. You Go Green Girl!

Kim Posted: 2:54 pm on October 31st