Lucky Number Three

Our scaffolding has arrived

First piece of the day

"So is pink my color or what?"

End of day nine

The glue that makes this work

Now that we are on the new scaffolding nothing will be easy again on this installation. We have to wear a harness and in addition to being heavy and uncomfortable, it's also very difficult to move while strapping yourself in and trying to move around each other on two narrow platforms.

Dixie makes the most of it in hard to reach places

Luckily, you can cut and move pieces of a mosaic to make it fit perfectly

End of day ten

Mike and Kate putting in a piece with very little room to spare

end of day eleven

Two Blobs Don't Make a Right

The two blobs...of grout

Day Eight

Grouting all we can till we have more scaffolding to continue going up

And not being dangerous

Dixie and Kate on a research excursion 

End of day eight, the suitcase is because we are going to do repair work at another job site for a few days... see you again on day nine!

The Woodland Chicks

Mike takes the girls out for Emily's birthday

Mike uses the top of our crate for cutting things.. 

We spent day seven peeling, cleaning and replacing pieces on the outside wall

More fixes in the woodwork

with little mice as helpers

Let's All Go Outside!

Mortar Mike is preparing the wall outside for installation

While Kool Kate starts grouting 

There's a lot to grout and it's messy but it's one of the best parts of a project; you get to see the what the mosaic will really finally look like

The first piece installed outside

Dixie and Saskia working on the pieces outside. The three dimensional pieces are harder to install  because they have different thicknesses and some pieces adhere better while others might make no contact

A visitor makes contact 

 A glimpse of our expanding workplace 

Last piece outside!

I'm sure she's working

End of day 6

Still Waters Run Deep

Peeling and cleaning....

A view through the window outside where our mosaic will continue

Today we started grouting, well, Mike started

While we cleaned

End of day five