Garden Path Studio

10/07/2026

10/07/2026

Thank you Linda Kerley Senior Center and Creative Aging and all you wonderful ladies for an amazing opportunity teaching mosaic stepping stones. All the staff at Linda Kerley is top notch- friendly, SO helpful, and patient to a fault with all my stuff I bring and mess we make. I am once again amazed at the creativity and fabulousness of the artwork the participants made. Plus we had fun doing it. Look forward to being back soon!

09/25/2026

Today was the last day (grout day) for the stepping stone mosaic class at Whitehaven Library. It was a great class full of very sweet and creative ladies and a gentleman. It’s always fun to see what everyone comes up with. That is rhinestone glitter (brought by one of the students) and some regular glitter (brought by another). Thanks to all my participants and Creative Aging for the opportunity to lead this fun and fulfilling class.

09/20/2026

Great stepping stone class this weekend. I wish I had gotten pictures of ALL the participants. Aylen Mercado and her Dad did the Memphis bridge at night and the house. Aylen was a student at White Station Middle 17? Years ago when I did Egyptian Frieze tiles with the students in Mr. Hamer’s Social studies class. I ran into her at a party and she offered to help me on some of my worships. She has been coming to the Whitehaven Library on Thursdays and helping me with the creative aging stepping stone workshop. Pictures of that later. She and her Dad, Mario, are such a delight. Another delight I didn’t get a picture of is Carrie Patterson who did the red tulips. It was at her urging that I scheduled the class so big thanks Carrie! Thanks also to Heather, Rhonda Laird Roberts Jo McNamara Erin Peterson Frangenberg Lynn Bowie! Really impressive artwork and a great spirit all around!❤️

09/02/2026

These pieces are from August pottery in the Garden Path Studio. I’m doing another series in October. Message me for more info or to sign up. 3116 Bass Rd. Millington

08/01/2026

07/13/2026

What a great group of artistic and fun ladies I had this weekend for mosaic stepping stone class. They all did amazing pieces and we had a great time. Thank you so much ladies! Rhonda Laird Roberts Nita Black Erin Peterson Frangenberg 😎💕😍❤️

07/09/2026

Looking for a fun creative camp for your kiddo next week? July 13-16? I’m doing a fairy garden class at Hutchison School 9am -12 where we will create our own unique house and other things out of clay. After they are fired once we will paint them and they will get fired again. After they come out of the kiln we will place them on a tray and create a magical landscape. Lights not included. Here’s the link to Hutchinson’s registration which will remain open through the weekend or call the Center for Excellence office: 901-507-2460
https://hutchisonsummer.campbrainregistration.com/?returnUrl=%2FLanding

07/02/2026

This is a table I did 20ish years ago. I didn’t really know what I was doing as far as adhesives go so I carefully cut the stained glass and arranged it but used thin-set to stick it to the table top. You can make a beautiful mosaic but if it falls apart it’s not so beautiful!Well, over time some of the pieces started to come loose. My friend brought the table to me to be repaired. She laid it down in a van and all the pieces fell off! Luckily I found a faded picture of what the original looked like! I pain stakingly scraped off the thin-set from the back of each piece, cut a 1/4 thick piece of Wedi board to fit the table top, covered it in No-days adhesive and started piecing together the puzzle. It took one afternoon and most of the next day to get it all layed out. Some of the side pattern pieces were missing so I made the top and bottom borders go all the way across - which I think looks better than the original. If you see any other differences you are a genius! Ha! There was no way I was going to scrape each little original border tile. Luckily I had some black iridescent tiles that went well so I only had to scrape enough to do one strip across the bottom.
No-days adhesive is heated with a heat gun until it melts. When it cools, the tile is set and ready to grout. Right now I’m waiting for the glue attaching the board to the table to dry, then I will grout it with black epoxy grout. I’ll post pictures of the finished table soon!