Show & Tell Time....

School will be starting in a few weeks....

so we thought it was time for some

Show & Tell

This summer Karla's daughter made this

stained glass window

for her Creative Arts project in 4H

we call it:

Whoo's Van Gogh

"Starry Night" by Vincent Van Gogh

In her book she learned about many artists

and their works of art.

She wanted to do a mosaic for her

"final project"

Since we had so many old windows we suggested

she mosaic one of those.

Since you'd be looking out of a "window" scene...

she thought of Starry Night...but wanted to add

something that would make it more....her

and that is where the

OWL Comes it!

So she made a template with the design on it

and taped it to the back of the window

She then took different colored sheets of mosaic glass

and put them into some enamel bowls, put a plastic bag

around it and hammered away to break up the pieces

Then the fun began!

She glued the glass pieces onto the window panes.

She said it was like putting a puzzle together.

She also thought it was a lot like

playing Blokus (one of our favorite family games)

because you had to find pieces that fit in tight spots

She worked on this for a couple of weeks.

She thinks that she put about 22 hours time into it....

When all of the glass was in place

she grouted it

(using a black grout, since it was a nighttime sky)

She thought that this was the hardest thing

to do in the project....

it was thick and quite messy!

After it dried, she then buffed all of the glass

 to get the grout off of it.

Ta-Da

A fun window project!