Nutmeg Designs celebrates their first baby mosaic with a video

a celebration of birth
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Nutmeg Designs

This is the first time we placed a baby's name into one of our mosaics.  What a joyful thing to be asked to create. And how kind of the recipient of this commissioned gift to have given their child the name of one of the greatest sax players to ever play jazz.  Once I handed over the letters on a piece of slate to Mosaic Woman, she took lots of process photos. I took the photos of her grouting.  See it emerge here:

placing a capital P inside a small o

Wordless Wednesday: Chinatown?

S is for Signs: House Numbers That Show off Your Address

Our collaborations are getting around: Two in California, one in Wisconsin, and several here in southeast Pennsylvania. Here are some samples. Get info about buying your house a number.

invitation to all

invitation to all
Originally uploaded by stratoz

I would cross out especially and replace it with "even"

We are back from Rochester, NY where the Jazz continues for all. These words were at the bottom of a sign outside of the Lutheran Church of the Reformation, one of the 10 venues where we ended up seeing jazz.

The sign was an invitation for folk to show up for a Jazz Vespers service. I would be there, but I am no longer in New York.