This is one of those spur of the moment projects. I promised my sister that I would make a blue and white china mosaic cross for her updated bedroom. Meanwhile, last year a friend approached me about broken china. Her buffet shelves gave out around Christmas and she lost most of her good china. I told her at the time that she had quite a few options. One of them was a hanging wall cross.
Lo and behold, I couldn't find what I was looking for about 6 months.
Hobby Lobby carried these and I bought 2 with a coupon.
Outside the weather was balmy and about 70 degrees. I decided to take advantage of that and smash china. In the following picture, you will see the china pattern that I will be using. It is called Naples. You know how very fond I am of the colors silver and gray.
Spray priming them was a breeze.
The designing stage takes much longer. Since the china had a slender silver band around the plates, I used that as the ends of the cross. The middle was just filled in with the white and silver pattern.
Once I had my ends temporarily placed, I pulled out my tile adhesive and filled the cross.
The cross still isn't finished and I need to let the adhesive dry before I can grout.
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