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Creating Mosaics with My European Touch

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Hi there, most of you know me, but for the “newbees” my name is Monika of Myeuropeantouch and I am in a real funk. Because of my newly surroundings ~ well, for a year now – from a large house to a small Apartment Condo I am now restricted “because of less room and being [...]

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Handmade for Johnny Appleseed Day

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Did you know that September 26th is officially Johnny Appleseed Day? John Chapman, AKA Johnny Appleseed, was born on September 26, 1774 and was a nurseryman who began planting trees in western New York and Pennsylvania and later on towards the west to Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois. He was a deeply religious man known [...]

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The History of Mosaic Art

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In its modern form, mosaic means a mixture or montage, a design created by a composite of shapes; but its ancient beginnings are of function and design. Around 3000 B.C., mosaic designs were created with clay cones imbedded, point first, into columns of the Stone Cone Temple in Urak, in Mesopotamia. This ancient cone mosaic [...]

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