When I go shopping, my eyes are always drawn to look at items that are made with mosaic tiles. I love to run my hands over mosaic tile and feel the texture of the materials.  I can remember when I was a child, in art class, making Mother’s Day gifts from glass mosaic tiles to take home to our mothers. How I loved piecing my project together to create the picture; a hummingbird sipping nectar from a flower.

I was so proud of that piece that I made, and if I recall correctly my mother displayed it at home for quite some time. I’m not sure when it was that it disappeared; I think it was when she sold her house and moved to her new location. I think that since she was downsizing that did not make the “cut.” I sure wish she had called me and asked me if I wanted it back, I would have said yes. That is the only mosaic artwork that I have ever done, and it would have been really nice to have it back. She probably didn’t think anyone would want it; after all a child made it for her. Sometimes I’m surprised that I’m a more sentimental person than she is about things like that.