The Mermaid Shower floor.

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I finally completed the mermaid floor to the shower in my new apartment (Ground floor extension to my house.)

The tiles took 10 weeks to cut and lay.

Final picture of Mermaid.jpg

It was strictly a labour of love for mine own delight but would be impossible to do on a commercial basis.

Each individual tile had to be cut and shaped to fit the adjoining tile which had to have been affixed the day before to extract an accurate cut. One shaped tile per day, hence the old adage.

Patience is a virtue, learn it if you can, seldom found in woman, never found in man. (Not sure what that says for transgendered people though.)

This proves that an exercise such as this would never be a commercial success. Ten weeks at £150 per day, (never going to work.)

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A lovely thing

Podracer's picture

Well done Bev, what inspired a custom bathroom art like that?

"Reach for the sun."

Boredom

Boredom mainly plus the deterioration in the weather. I got sick and tired of digging out earth and laying concrete blocks so I commenced this bit of artwork to sap away my pent up artistic juices.

bev_1.jpg

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It's beautiful. Simply beautiful.

I'm told STFU more times in a day than most people get told in a lifetime

Just A Young Girl

joannebarbarella's picture

At heart! 'Drea and Laika will be so proud of you (and me too!).

Never mind about growing old disgracefully!

OMG that's ADORABLE!!!!

laika's picture

I LOVE it!!! Tile is such a great medium, the colors so rich.
I love the whole design, and that she has hair like Sunset Shimmer,
http://orig15.deviantart.net/7482/f/2017/031/8/5/equestria_g...
Definitely a kick-ass little mermaid!
~hugs, Veronica
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But do orcas and flying fish live in the same ocean? I don't suppose it matters (I put clownfish in the Atlantic in one of my mermaid stories because dammit, i wanted clowfish!) but now I gotta go look thru wikipedia for my own amateur marine biologist amusement...

Orcas?

Orcas are black and white, without grey. This looks like some other kind of dolphin to me.

Clownfish do indeed live in the Atlantic

I can honestly say, I've seen them and photos to prove it. I just need to do some digging.
I've seen them around Cuba, so I would assume they like the warmer waters of the oceans.

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