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NEW!<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 28 March 2019: starting a “What Works at the Beach” category of blog posts. These are ideas for the home that have worked for us here.\u00a0 Take a look at the intro page<\/a> <\/strong>or click “What Works at the Beach” in the Categories list at the right.<\/p>\n

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Just starting<\/em><\/strong> 20 January, 2018.<\/p>\n

Every now and then I get a thought that I really want to write down somewhere.\u00a0 I’ve owned this domain for a long time (back when we rented the house to vacationers), and it’s time to put it to some use.<\/p>\n

I’m going to start with the creation story of La Sirena<\/em><\/strong> (The Mermaid), a mosaic tile project for an ugly cement-block wall in the backyard.\u00a0 I’ve never done a mosaic before, so it would make sense that my first project would be something maybe a foot square on a piece of wood to hang up in my workshop (where nobody has to see it).\u00a0 But no, La Sirena is about 3 feet by 13 feet and will be a major design element of the backyard.<\/p>\n

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HERE’S THE WALL<\/strong>, with the project spread out on tables in front of it.\u00a0 (This is January 2018, so you can see the first few tiles on the wall in this picture.)<\/p>\n

I started the project in April 2017, using broken tiles found on the beach by us and others.\u00a0 I laid her out on three tables placed end-to-end, and there she sat for about 7 months while many other projects around the house got done.\u00a0 Now it is January 2018, and today I was shown how to use the pegamento azulejos<\/em> (the adhesive mortar; Mexico’s version of thinset) and we put about a square foot of random blue tile up on the wall.<\/p>\n

This story will be told in pictures done as blog posts, under the Category “La Sirena.”\u00a0 START HERE<\/strong><\/a> and let’s see what happens!<\/p>\n

–Dave
\n20 January, 2018<\/p>\n

[Added 5 July 2018:\u00a0 CONTACTING ME]<\/strong><\/p>\n

I would be happy to answer questions about this project!\u00a0 I’m not opening Comments on this blog; it just gets really messy with unwanted messages.\u00a0 Feel free to send them to my Yahoo.com mail account called sierradave<\/strong> .\u00a0 I’ll let you figure out (easy!) what that full Email address will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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