{"id":191,"date":"2019-08-03T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packshare.org\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2021-05-15T10:01:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T10:01:48","slug":"making-a-mosaic-the-packshare-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packshare.org\/pages\/uncategorized\/making-a-mosaic-the-packshare-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a mosaic the Packshare way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How much do you really think about other people’s waste? At Packshare, we\u2019ve found once you start thinking about it, it can become all-consuming! Anything you\u2019re buying, someone else is probably trying to figure out how to get rid of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a society, we\u2019re starting to realise that there is no \u2018away\u2019 to throw something – all that waste ends up somewhere, and something has to be done with is when it gets there. So perhaps the time is right to rethink what we mean by waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recently decided I wanted to mosaic the top of my garden table (I\u2019m really fussy about homewares, and couldn\u2019t find a pre-made table I liked the look of). I started looking in craft stores for packs of mosaic tiles, but the only ones I could find were more like pebbles, which wasn\u2019t the style I was going for – I wanted something that would look at home at Fishbourne Roman Palace. Ok – so I might have had big dreams, but I knew the sort of thing I wanted. Also, the craft store packs were pretty expensive and I knew I\u2019d have to buy multiple packs to cover the whole table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A number of friends told me to keep an eye on a few local Facebook groups where people list items they no longer want (much like Packshare but for anything and everything). I love these sorts of groups but am pretty impatient so just wanted to get the tiles and get going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walking between two large craft stores on an out of town industrial estate, I passed a tile shop. I wondered initially whether they would sell the sort of mosaic tiles I was looking for. When I went in I was shown to the pre-made mosaic tiles. I told the guy in the shop that what I was really after was some broken tiles so that I could make my own mosaic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He very kindly showed me out the back where they put all the broken and ex-display tiles to be taken away – these items can\u2019t generally be put out with the normal business waste collection so they company pay a great deal to have it taken away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I raided the broken tile bin and ended up with almost all the tiles I needed. I then bought some sample tiles for the few colours I was missing and hey presto I was ready to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had to smash up the tiles further to make them appropriately mosaic sized, then I sketched and drew out the picture I wanted to make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n