mosaic wall, originally uploaded by momonn502.
I think this looks fantastic and I think it is an absolutely spectacular way of using mosaics around the home. I first saw mosaics done to frame a door in Kaffe Fassett’s Mosaic book and it looked fantastic there. This is a very different style but no less wonderful.
Planter Mosaic, originally uploaded by joniann.
Don’t forget to check out the other mosaics in joniann’s photoset at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/50236448@N00/sets/641960/
Anguish, originally uploaded by serranograph.
If this is how the holiday season makes you feel then consider checking out the Flylady if you want some tips on being organised enough to actually survive the next few weeks. It’s a site that will help you organise your home if you are a person who would much rather be having fun rather than doing housework. So if you are procrastinating about the things that need to be done and the jobs are too big to even start…
It has all of the elements of a good cognitive-behaviour therapy programme without being remotely psychiatric. There’s hope for me yet!
Saint Barbara Church, originally uploaded by Imlock.
Saint Barbara Church, Baernbach, Styria, Austria
Saint Barbara was a beautiful girl who dwelt in the city of Nicomedia in Asia Minor. Dioscurus, her cruel pagan father, had her shut in a tower in order to preserve her from suitors. She nevertheless secretly converted to Christianity. Her father commanded that she be built a bath-house, so that she would not have to use the public baths. The design for the bath-house originally had two windows, but Barbara had a third installed to commemorate the Trinity. Her father, seeing this change, discovered that she was a Christian. He had her taken to a Roman imperial magistrate during a persecution of Christians, who ordered her to be beheaded, and directed that her father carry out the sentence himself. He did so, but, according to the story, was struck dead by lightning in divine retribution. Juliana of Nicomedia suffered the death of a martyr along with Barbara and was likewise sainted.
St. Barbara was formerly one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. Her association with lightning caused her to be invoked against lightning and fire; by association, she also became the patron of artillery and mining. Her feast was formerly celebrated on December 4; in the 1969 reform of the Roman Catholic liturgy her public cultus was suppressed to a purely local celebration, and her name was dropped from the litany of saints.
In the 12th century, the relics of St. Barbara were brought from Constantinople to the St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery in Kiev, where they were kept until the 1930s, when they were transferred to St. Vladimir’s Cathedral in the same city. Her veneration in the Eastern Orthodox Church remains very popular and her feast day is celebrated on December 4.
Patron of artillery gunners, masons, mathematicians, miners, military engineers, stonecutters, anyone who works at risk of sudden and violent death.
Attributes:Tower, palm, chalice
[Information taken from Wikipedia]
HRH, Bobby & Pattie, originally uploaded by Steve in Brazil.
Those of you in the Northern Hemisphere will probably want to throttle me for this one but this is December weather for me even though it is not my photo. Hope its not too chilly wherever you are.
And the mosaics are cute 
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