Screwdriver/hammer technique has been successful w/me.

Maybe it would be lovely on a bowling ball? Looks to be just the right size. Mosaic the rest of the ball in soft colors. June will be here before you know it and it may be a great wedding present for that special bride.
Cait

I've had great success with the screwdriver hammer method.

Thanks. cait, good idea, I can use the topper on a bowling ball. Just happen to have an extra and plenty of pastel glass. slow and nice, I'll try the screwdriver and hammer on the big piece. Surely I can get some smaller pieces out of it. How do you stabilize your piece while you are trying to chip a certain piece out of it? I can't seem to come up with anything that doesn't involve me growing a third hand.

Got an old pillow or a thick, heavy towel? You know what? I just looked at that huge bunch of flowers again and thought - what if you found something to mosaic on which you could use that whole piece for the hat??? You could make a stylized "Lady" and put that whole piece on her. Don't chop it up yet. If I had it, I'd make a concrete figure, using the technique we learned in P.V. That's a perfect hat crown.

I don't think resin will break right...Ceramic flaowers yes but not resin????????Like Slow said use as is ,I recently saw some mosaic cakes you could make those flowers your top layer..........Annie

I have a couple saucers like that one in my booth. I was just looking at them yesterday thinking - if you don't sell soon, you're toast.

Hey thanks for the ideas and methods to work on the resin. I didn't have much luck before on a small piece and I hated to ruin this one.slow, maybe I can find something premade to use the ring for a hat. Just working up the nerve to try a concrete ball (lurking on the hypertufa forum here) to mosaic. annie, that's a good idea too. I think I've seen something like that. Wonder what the base is; you can tell I have no imagination. If you can tell from the picture, the bottom piece has a metal ring that the top piece doesn't quite cover so I would have to do something to fill up those spaces. Ah, the fun of the challenges. Lilym, aren't these saucers pretty - I am not in any hurry to break mine.

Just discovered the ring of roses will almost fit into the circle where the mirror goes in one of my mirrors. Wonder if my brother will go nuts if I ask him for a mirror with exactly the right diameter in the middle! Let's see, if I have enough old looking blue and white china pieces to cover the mirror, hum......