Stained glass Mountain Mosaic shelf

Back to the mosaic idea for this post!  Yes, mosaics are a favorite of mine.  As is the saying "Variety is the spice of life!"  Pieces of this and pieces of that, put together with an individual's touch make up the days and years of our lives.  As a child I would spend hours sewing together fabrics that I had collected.  Later it would be photos of our daughters added to photo albums.  Then it was steps in a running race, bike races in a stage race, mountains to be peak-bagged to accomplish a goal.  All the parts summed up to the whole.

Being older must have hardened me because my favorite mediums are now stained glass, metals and stone!

This project was to create a storage area in our small toilet room.  Firstly a nice niche was already available since the room is located under the stairs.

Finding this photo online, gave me an idea!

Being in the Adirondacks, a profile of the Great Range would be the perfect detail for the long narrow space at the base of the shelf.

Once again I dug out my box of stained glass and set about picking some colors to suit the mountains and sky.

It wasn't long before I cut out a pattern on paper to make the pieces in glass.  Using a grinder I ground the edges of the glass smooth after cutting them with a glass cutter.  Gluing the glass to the wall took a bit of patience to ensure that they wouldn't slide...but before long, this shelf had a face!  Or actually many faces - the faces of The Great Range : (from right to left)  Marcy, Haystack, Basin, Saddleback, Gothics, Armstrong, and The Wolf Jaws! Big Slide sneaked into the foreground for good measure...

I chose colors that were more subtle than the original photo so that there would be details to look at as time went by.  Below are some of the details.

I guess that gives a new meaning to the mountains over head!