Introducing the ESST Street Team: Doodles Mosaic Tiles

This is the next in my series about the wonderful peeps of Team ESST. Today's topic is:

Doodles Mosaic Tiles has a broad array of mosaic tiles for mosaic artists. Many of her tiles are clear, in a variety of patterns and sizes. However, she has lovely broken china tiles, glass globs, and holiday items. Fhe also carries neodymium magnets, and a wonderful clearance section (titled, amusingly, "Oops!") that almost seduced me into trying my hand at mosaics.

By far the most interesting part of her shop, though, are her custom made hand painted tiles. Whimsical, bright, and cheerful, these tiles would turn any mosaic art from humdrum to spectacular.

With 597 sales, Doodles is going great guns! Check her shop out. If you'd like to find older posts in this series, search for the tag ESST members.

Introducing the ESST Street Team: Artful Mosaic Supplies

All of my street teams have wonderful members; between at least three of them there is a lot of crossover and mutual membership. The fourth is a supply street team, and over on the Etsy forums there's been a lot of disdain and outright hostility toward supply sellers recently.

However, supplies, commercial or handmade, are a viable part of ETSY, and I think we supply sellers belong there. Yes, lampwork can be seen as tiny pieces of art, but ETSY classifies us as handmade supplies.

Hand-cut glass shows up in the first person on my street team, Artful Mosaic Supplies. Artful has got a wonderful shop and feedback rating. She carries glass squares, colored grout sand, decorative bits, beads, and anything else you might think of that you would need to make a mosaic. Some of her stuff is extremely unique; you won't find those patterns or backgrounds anywhere else. On top of that she's a great teammate!

Mosaic Art Glass Pieces

A couple of weeks ago I was floored to find out that my cracked beads, broken beads, and wonkies were usable! Carla of CarDon Creative Designs was very happy to get several ounces of beads and bead bits to use in mosaics. I'm really excited to see her finished products!

Because of that, I've started to sort my bits n' pieces into color ranges, and have begun to list them on ETSY. Right now I have black tones, yellow / oranges, pink/purples, blues, and greens. CarDon needed a good bit of pink and purple, so those tones are mixed, and I don't do an awful lot with oranges or yellows in general. Blues, yes--I love working with blue, and green as well. Plus I have been playing around with the combination of light turquoise and clear colors in the base range, following Kandice's Coloraddiction blog, which always has such wonderful color references!

YART Sale on ETSY!!

And what, you ask, is a YART sale? Well, it's a yard sale, only for art and supplies! Check it out ... mouse over to Etsy and do a search for "YART". The sale begins to-day and will last for ten days.

From me, look for sales on existing beads and on bead seconds ... but also I have fabric destash, linen embroidery thread and floss destash, cigar boxes, and other goodies. So keep watching.


In beading news, there's some interesting developments in Avondale Estates. Melanie Gulley is opening The Bead Shoppe!

It will be located at 2849 E. College Avenue in Avondale Estates, in the Twin Oaks shopping center. You can find more information at 404.914.4602, or email Melanierg@hotmail.com. It will be nice to have a quality shop closer, and NOT in Alpharetta or Buckhead.