Hi Cathy! Great to hear you enjoyed the video. Yes, olive oil is so much better to use than those stinky, harsh alternatives. Plus, your hands will be extra soft once you wash it off! Win-win! Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🔥
Hi LA! Thank you for your kind words. I'm glad to hear you got value from my video. And yay about ordering your first batch of tesserae!🙌 How exciting!! Are you going to make this vase or do you have something else in mind? If you post it on Instagram, tag me if you want so I can take a look (@julieweilbacher)! Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🔥
Hi Sunday Sunshine! I hear ya! I feel the same way. I'd love to see a grouping of different shapes and heights of mosaic bottles, maybe all in the same color or design theme. I think that would be really fun! Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🌟
What a wonderful idea! Thank you. I was wondering if you could teach us how to make a mosiac template/pattern such as a flower design or bird showing how to lay it out into sections??
Hi AE! Great to hear you enjoyed the video. I'll add your request to the list. Are you want to see how to use a pattern on a bottle or some other substrate? Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🙌
@@JulieWeilbacher I was thinking some other substrate. Such as wedi board or even wood. I'm unsure of how to go about the actual designing process such as how to make the pieces fit, how to split up larger sections, etc. I figure it's really up to the designer but I could use some guidance. Thanks, Julie.
Im interested in making a stained glass table light more in the style of candle holder rather than the traditional lamp look Wondering if you have made these and if you could do us a how to video
Hi Yvonne! I love that idea of using the bottles to store small tesserae. Oooohhh, you could mosaic the outside with what you keep inside. A new 'labeling' system!😍 Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!
Thank you for this and all your videos, listening to you gives me confidence to try something else and you often answer questions I was turning over in my head. I have done a nice tall bottle using vitreous tiles, smaller than those you used. Very happy with the results. It has square sides (if that makes sense!).
Hi Claire! Great to hear you're enjoying my videos and getting some value from them. Whatever I can do to help shorten the learning curve so you can get to the mosaic making quicker! Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🔥
Hi A Mechealle! Ohhhh I love that idea of using them to store tesserae. I bet they're beautiful with all those gorgeous colors showing through. Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🙌
Another great video! I had wondered about doing a bottle, now I have to try it. 😂 I wanted to tell you I got a waffle grid for cutting glass like you recommended. Oh my goodness, it’s awesome!! It’s helped me tremendously!! Thanks so for all you do to help us!! ♥️
Hi Arlene! Awww thanks so much! Great to hear you enjoyed the video. A bottle is a fun mosaic project, especially if you use transparent glass. Just gorgeous! And YES! I'm so glad you got the waffle cutting grid and are enjoying it. I love mine too! Keep creating my friend and I'm so glad you're here!🔥
I can't wait to try this! I did mosaic a glass vase - one of my first mosaic projects. I made lots of mistakes: using E6000 as an adhesive for ceramic pieces - which I later learned is very toxic; and using a marker as a guide for the design I wanted. And then failing to remove the marks before grouting. So, the marks are visible on the inside of the vase! Lol! Will never do that again!
Hi Michelle! Great to hear you enjoyed the video.😊 We save the environment and gain a vase. Win-win! And they're addicting to make. So many material, color, and design options. Try the Lexel and see how you like working with it. As I mentioned in the video, I use it in smaller quantities instead of directly from the tube and it keeps me sane, and less stringy. Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🔥
Hi Julie, again thank you for this tutorial. They are all so helpful! Not sure you would want to, but is there a way I could send you pics of my layouts before I glue/grout the pieces for your critique? Thank you ☺
Hi P Marlowe! Yes, in the video I discuss outdoor adhesive ideas for glass on glass at timestamp 04:32, or look at the chapters listed in the description below the video. You've got lots of options! What outdoor glass on glass (GOG) project are you planning?😍 Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!
::eyes all the empty Starbucks bottles I've been meaning to drag to the recycle bin:: Could you use apoxie sculpt to build up the area over the ridges and smooth it out some? I'm not sure how it works in a wet environment... and whether it would stick to the glass.
Hi Erica! Oh yeah, I hear you on the empty Starbucks bottles.😂 Just think of all the vases you can make. Everyone's getting a vase for the holidays! You get a vase! And you get a vase! Yes, you can definitely use Apoxie Sculpt to cover the ridges around the neck. Just let it fully cure before you start tiling. How are your other mosaic projects coming along? Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🔥
@@JulieWeilbacher I'll be the Oprah of mosaics this Christmas! Good to know Apoxie will work (I just bought my first batch of it). Other projects are all coming along! Grouted my first few creations (finally) and am designing two other big ones. Still trying out all sorts of tesserae to see what I like, experimenting with tinting and painting thinset, making some jewelry, and figuring out how best to rig up LED lighting as part of some mosaic art pieces (well, hopefully they'll be art when I'm done lol). So many projects, so little focus and organization! But I'm having a wonderful time playing and experimenting... it's only frustrating because friends and family want to see what I've done... but I've just got experiments with several different tiles and other material stuck in thinset with different texturing applied. I tell them it's just modern art and they wouldn't get it. 🤣 Thanks for your wonderful videos, Julie... always look forward to seeing them!!
Do I have to grout a vase like this or any mosaic for that matter if I place the tiles close together, like how smalti is usually close together and not grouted?
Hi, Julie! Thanks for another inspiring video on mosaics. Could you please share with me where your white trays are from? I’d like to get some for my work area. Thank you!
Hi Natalie H! Great to hear you enjoyed the video. The white trays are super helpful in keeping tesserae in order plus so many other things in the studio. And I like that they don't have a 90º agree. Here you go: ua-cam.com/video/qkN_nsN_0XQ/v-deo.html. Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🔥
Julie: thanks for your response, but I must be blind; I don’t see a link for the white trays in either the video or the link to the video that you have in your response. Help? I’m confused. Thank you!
@@natalieh5805 Oh Natalie, you have such patience with me.😂 It was brought to my attention that I gave you the wrong link TWICE! Third time's the charm baby! Here you go: amzn.to/3xTjbmq.
I tried to sand down the glass rim with a sanding stone and with my electric grinder, and it didn't seem doable (unless I had a spare week with nothing else to do!) So I left the rim. I don't understand how you got a smooth line from above and below the rim. Seems like a very think layer of Lexel will be needed to fill in the curves, especially below where it narrows below the rim. Is that what you did? Or was there space under the tiles where it hung over the edge? Thanks!
Hi Ava! The grinding bit on my glass grinder is rather coarse. You can certainly put a layer of Lexel on the rim to 'build up' and then tile over it. Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🙌
Hi Trisha! It's all there, I promise! Under the video title and description you'll see 'show more.' Click on that and it'll expand the video description which is where are the goodies are. Hope that helps! Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🔥
@@JulieWeilbacher no ma’am, I mean an actual hot glue gun. I used to teach art years ago (15+ years) and I’m trying to remember but I thought that is what we used.
Thank you for creating this helpful video and sharing the tip on using olive oil to deal with sticky fingers.
Olive oil is a great tool for removing labels and label goo, as well!
Yes very good tips! I will try the olive oil!😊
Hi Cathy! Great to hear you enjoyed the video. Yes, olive oil is so much better to use than those stinky, harsh alternatives. Plus, your hands will be extra soft once you wash it off! Win-win! Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🔥
Agreed Erica! Olive oil is so helpful and under appreciated!😊
Great to hear you enjoyed the video Karen! Yes, try olive oil the next time you have sticky fingers. A little goes a long way!🙌
Thank you so much for the information you share with us. I just put in a small order of my first batch of mosaic tiles, and can’t wait to start!
Hi LA! Thank you for your kind words. I'm glad to hear you got value from my video. And yay about ordering your first batch of tesserae!🙌 How exciting!! Are you going to make this vase or do you have something else in mind? If you post it on Instagram, tag me if you want so I can take a look (@julieweilbacher)! Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🔥
Thanks - I hate disposing of glass and this gives an alternative that I had never considered
Hi Sunday Sunshine! I hear ya! I feel the same way. I'd love to see a grouping of different shapes and heights of mosaic bottles, maybe all in the same color or design theme. I think that would be really fun! Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🌟
What a wonderful idea! Thank you. I was wondering if you could teach us how to make a mosiac template/pattern such as a flower design or bird showing how to lay it out into sections??
Hi AE! Great to hear you enjoyed the video. I'll add your request to the list. Are you want to see how to use a pattern on a bottle or some other substrate? Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🙌
@@JulieWeilbacher I was thinking some other substrate. Such as wedi board or even wood. I'm unsure of how to go about the actual designing process such as how to make the pieces fit, how to split up larger sections, etc. I figure it's really up to the designer but I could use some guidance. Thanks, Julie.
Im interested in making a stained glass table light more in the style of candle holder rather than the traditional lamp look Wondering if you have made these and if you could do us a how to video
I use the bottles to hold some of my small pieces of glass. This idea of yours is awesome!
Hi Yvonne! I love that idea of using the bottles to store small tesserae. Oooohhh, you could mosaic the outside with what you keep inside. A new 'labeling' system!😍 Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!
@@JulieWeilbacher TY. Most 2 inch or less are all in bottles. I can store a lot in them. Saves me lots of space 🙂
Thank you for this and all your videos, listening to you gives me confidence to try something else and you often answer questions I was turning over in my head. I have done a nice tall bottle using vitreous tiles, smaller than those you used. Very happy with the results. It has square sides (if that makes sense!).
Hi Claire! Great to hear you're enjoying my videos and getting some value from them. Whatever I can do to help shorten the learning curve so you can get to the mosaic making quicker! Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🔥
I’ve been using my little coffee bottles to hold the mini tiles I have. 💕
Hi A Mechealle! Ohhhh I love that idea of using them to store tesserae. I bet they're beautiful with all those gorgeous colors showing through. Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🙌
Another great video! I had wondered about doing a bottle, now I have to try it. 😂
I wanted to tell you I got a waffle grid for cutting glass like you recommended. Oh my goodness, it’s awesome!! It’s helped me tremendously!!
Thanks so for all you do to help us!! ♥️
Hi Arlene! Awww thanks so much! Great to hear you enjoyed the video. A bottle is a fun mosaic project, especially if you use transparent glass. Just gorgeous! And YES! I'm so glad you got the waffle cutting grid and are enjoying it. I love mine too! Keep creating my friend and I'm so glad you're here!🔥
I can't wait to try this! I did mosaic a glass vase - one of my first mosaic projects. I made lots of mistakes: using E6000 as an adhesive for ceramic pieces - which I later learned is very toxic; and using a marker as a guide for the design I wanted. And then failing to remove the marks before grouting. So, the marks are visible on the inside of the vase! Lol! Will never do that again!
Hi Michelle! Great to hear you enjoyed the video.😊 We save the environment and gain a vase. Win-win! And they're addicting to make. So many material, color, and design options. Try the Lexel and see how you like working with it. As I mentioned in the video, I use it in smaller quantities instead of directly from the tube and it keeps me sane, and less stringy. Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🔥
Hi, great video. Was just wondering what you used to clean the grout off? Thanks 😊
Hi Valentina! I used papertowels. If you leave the grout on for too long I would suggest a damp sponge. Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🔥
Hi Julie, again thank you for this tutorial. They are all so helpful! Not sure you would want to, but is there a way I could send you pics of my layouts before I glue/grout the pieces for your critique? Thank you ☺
Such a great idea!! Love your teaching style! Is there an adhesive that works for glass on glass to be used outdoors? Thanks!
Hi P Marlowe! Yes, in the video I discuss outdoor adhesive ideas for glass on glass at timestamp 04:32, or look at the chapters listed in the description below the video. You've got lots of options! What outdoor glass on glass (GOG) project are you planning?😍 Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!
@@JulieWeilbacher I’m considering a hurricane lamp, maybe using Lexel. Thank you for your advice and continuing videos-very inspiring!
::eyes all the empty Starbucks bottles I've been meaning to drag to the recycle bin::
Could you use apoxie sculpt to build up the area over the ridges and smooth it out some? I'm not sure how it works in a wet environment... and whether it would stick to the glass.
Hi Erica! Oh yeah, I hear you on the empty Starbucks bottles.😂 Just think of all the vases you can make. Everyone's getting a vase for the holidays! You get a vase! And you get a vase! Yes, you can definitely use Apoxie Sculpt to cover the ridges around the neck. Just let it fully cure before you start tiling. How are your other mosaic projects coming along? Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🔥
@@JulieWeilbacher I'll be the Oprah of mosaics this Christmas! Good to know Apoxie will work (I just bought my first batch of it). Other projects are all coming along! Grouted my first few creations (finally) and am designing two other big ones. Still trying out all sorts of tesserae to see what I like, experimenting with tinting and painting thinset, making some jewelry, and figuring out how best to rig up LED lighting as part of some mosaic art pieces (well, hopefully they'll be art when I'm done lol). So many projects, so little focus and organization! But I'm having a wonderful time playing and experimenting... it's only frustrating because friends and family want to see what I've done... but I've just got experiments with several different tiles and other material stuck in thinset with different texturing applied. I tell them it's just modern art and they wouldn't get it. 🤣 Thanks for your wonderful videos, Julie... always look forward to seeing them!!
Do I have to grout a vase like this or any mosaic for that matter if I place the tiles close together, like how smalti is usually close together and not grouted?
Hi, Julie! Thanks for another inspiring video on mosaics. Could you please share with me where your white trays are from? I’d like to get some for my work area. Thank you!
Hi Natalie H! Great to hear you enjoyed the video. The white trays are super helpful in keeping tesserae in order plus so many other things in the studio. And I like that they don't have a 90º agree. Here you go: ua-cam.com/video/qkN_nsN_0XQ/v-deo.html. Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🔥
Julie: thanks for your response, but I must be blind; I don’t see a link for the white trays in either the video or the link to the video that you have in your response. Help? I’m confused. Thank you!
@@natalieh5805 No worries. Here's the link to the trays: ua-cam.com/video/qkN_nsN_0XQ/v-deo.html. Enjoy!
@@natalieh5805 Oh Natalie, you have such patience with me.😂 It was brought to my attention that I gave you the wrong link TWICE! Third time's the charm baby! Here you go: amzn.to/3xTjbmq.
Can you put seaglass on a glass block and put lights in it. If so what glue would you use. Thanks LaRae
Hi LaRae! I would use a clear adhesive for what you described. Keep creating and I'm thankful you're here!🔥
@@JulieWeilbacher Thank you
I tried to sand down the glass rim with a sanding stone and with my electric grinder, and it didn't seem doable (unless I had a spare week with nothing else to do!) So I left the rim. I don't understand how you got a smooth line from above and below the rim. Seems like a very think layer of Lexel will be needed to fill in the curves, especially below where it narrows below the rim. Is that what you did? Or was there space under the tiles where it hung over the edge? Thanks!
Hi Ava! The grinding bit on my glass grinder is rather coarse. You can certainly put a layer of Lexel on the rim to 'build up' and then tile over it. Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🙌
You always say you’ll “list things below” but I never see how to find those lists/links… 😩
They’re in the episode description, click on the title of the video.
Hi Trisha! It's all there, I promise! Under the video title and description you'll see 'show more.' Click on that and it'll expand the video description which is where are the goodies are. Hope that helps! Keep creating and I'm so glad you're here!🔥
Thanks TamariMcKay!🔥
Can you use a glue gun?
Hi Chad! Do you mean a glue (caulk) gun for the Lexel? Sure, that works! Keep creating and I'm glad you're here!🔥
@@JulieWeilbacher no ma’am, I mean an actual hot glue gun. I used to teach art years ago (15+ years) and I’m trying to remember but I thought that is what we used.
@@chadgriffin8088 Ooooohhh...hot glue is a no-no.