Finished! Been working on this for 6 months and my hands are cut to pieces.

[nevergoogledragonbutter]

I finished a mosaic tonight.
I'll grout it tomorrow and it goes in an exhibition on sunday.
Yay. What a relief to get it finished.

Pics on my profile.

Also, if anyone sees MrVibrating around can you direct him to this thread as he helped alot with the design. There's some ancient egyptian astronomy explained in the mosaic. Ver ver complicated.

...and i would gladly do so

mrsmerryhenry - still awaiting advice. have taken it to the top (trouble maker emoticon)

Good for you for standing up for yourself. Well done. I'll send out good karma vibes or whatever is needed to knock this on the head for you!

Oh well done, I knew this would be you and your mosaic!

That's fantastic, well done.

Is there a bigger pic? We'd be v v v interested in seeing the ancient egyptian astronomy. Pretty please?

I wondered if this would be you!
Well done, it looks fantastic! Enjoy your wine

mumsnet shrunk the picture because the file was too big.
there will probably be a pic on the exhibition website next week, which might be bigger.

the astronomy part is the stars in the centre of the mosaic straight up from the apex of the main pyramid.
kochab and mizar were the stars the egyptians used to line up the pyramids to face north.
they lined up to these stars because they were always visible and therefore called the indesctructibles. the kings would then join the everlasting stars int he afterlife.

i have to borrow a decent camera to take some decent pics on friday so will see if i can upload them.

Oh thank you. DD will be very happy

Is Fore Street the one with the Odeon?

Not sure about the odeon. I don't know exeter that well.

I was being lazy; there's nothing wrong with google maps. If it's the same road, then we'll be taking dd to the cinema there and I'll make sure we visit the gallery - dd will be v excited to see it in real life.

[wipes sweat off brow, thank goodness something else to do in half term]

really? how old is dd?

when i clicked this i thought to myself - i wonder what happened to the MNetter and the mosaic!!

It's FABULOUS !!!!

She's 9. The Gallery is up the other end, but near her favourite shop.

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeey, dragonbutter! How'd the exhibition go today?

oh hello, yes it was good, apart from having to go cycling in the woods beforehand and then get into my 'private viewing' outfit (ooh er) in the car park.

it was so interesting to see what everyone else had made having been given the same theme iyswim.
they were all very good (minus one or two) and mine didn't look too out of place or amateurish.

stayed away from the wine too, so chuffed with my self control . got a bit squiffy last year.

are you ok?

Yeah, I'm fine, but just irritated with whatever's happening with my cycle. I just don't know if I'm pregnant or not, having had lots of symptoms 3 weeks or so ago. Everything I read seems to say 'maybe you are...and then again maybe you're not'. I've learned not to trust pregnancy tests now. I think I need to stop thinking about it and hope the time whizzes by until my next period is due.

Glad it went well and that you are still proud of your beautiful piece of work. What's going on in the rest of your working life, is it going to be a slow process to get things sorted out?

hang on, i'm having a weep on natalie okri's behalf.
with you in a minute.

oh balls, somebody at the door

Don't worry - I need to spend some time with DH tonight.

Who's Natalie Okri? Are you watching Britain's Got Talent? Or 'Congratulations! You're still in the running...'

Chat to you another day, monkey, awrigh'?

Right, DH is watching Starship Troopers.

You back yet?

thats amazing

I know. Starship Troopers. Tsk. Amazing indeed.

lol. i saw that at the cinema, in the trainging camp when that private hets his head unexpectedly blown off - i actually did this "OH SHIT" literally in the middle of the cinema.

i was very mortified.