MASA was invited to send a representative to an interview on Good Morning Africa (DSTV Channel 114)!

So here's the thing, give me a microphone and I can happily chat to millions of people on a radio station. BUT put me in front of a camera and one of two things happens, I either stutter like a blithering idiot, my mouth goes dry and I cannot formulate words properly and end up sounding stooopid! So it was time to call in reinforcements in the form of Marina Giovitto Ehlers who has done so many of these things, is always cool under pressure and knows a helluva lot more about mosaic than I ever will!

The producers asked if we would also demonstrate how mosaic is done, and one of the questions they were going to ask us is what materials could be used for mosaic. Easy Peasy - No problem there! I started another Mosaic with Heart panel and had huge fun scratching through all the bits and pieces left behind from previous projects so that I could have many…

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I cannot remember the last time I even sat in my wreck room, much less actually touched a single tessera - and I am suffering the most dreadful withdrawal symptoms. My fingers are itching to get going with some pieces I have long wanted to do.

Every time I look at my schedule I get excited to find a gap that can be dedicated to time in the wreck room. No sooner have I had that thought than the gap gets filled with something that won't let me go there. Not only that but I am so far behind on stuff that has to be done before I can have wreck room time, I'm beginning to despair of ever getting there even before more stuff gets added to my schedule. I feel like my imagination, inspiration, creativity and general sanity are in dire danger of being squashed and stifled under the demands and priorities of 2012's steroid-taking tendencies.

The worst of the worst, though, is that I can't take steroids to keep up, much less find the energy and/or time to feed my mosaic habit.

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I would like to take this opportunity to thank MASA, the judges and the Mosaic friends for the encouragement and the votes. May I also say congratulations to my fellow participants in the competition, each and everyone of you are stars and I just got lucky. This was a first for me and hope to have the time to compete again. I am looking forward to chatting with all of you as to improve on my work.

All the best to MASA and Friends

At the beginning of the year when everyone seems to be coming up with New Year's Resolutions, with all good intentions and determination to make a difference somehow - its natural to take a look back with 20/20 hindsight about how you could have done things differently and perhaps silently promise not to make the same mistakes again!!!

I for one will never again

• Wear a white shirt while trying to "quickly" grout something with black grout
• use foil-backed glass tiles to mosaic a face (if the foil does not come off when you peel the tile off the mesh, it comes away after the second "shaping" cut)
• walk barefoot in the studio before having cleaned up the shards from the previous mosaic
• open a box of old tiles that I had hidden away at the…

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