Swan-like Peacock

Had a piece of MDF lying around leftover after some work on house. Also had a box of tiles salvaged from skip outside local tile warehouse:

Found the design in a mosaic book by Martin Cheek. Splashed out a bit on the millifiori (the little colourful circles that look like they're cut from tiny sticks of rock) which cost £5 on ebay, which was the only money spent on this as I had everything else. A bit disappointed as it looks like a swan rather than a peacock. Contains marble, glass, ceramic and bone china all reclaimed from skip.

Motown Clock

Old clock left in house. I originally set out to use an LP with some Elvis stuff decoupaged on to it. Hands of clock looked to short though on the 33.

So I used a 45 (SP) Stevie Wonder single instead. Unscrewed clock hands and battery mechanism from old clock and slightly widened the centre hole of the 45 to accomodate them. Screwed back with the 45 as the clock face and stuck on some hand markers instead of numbers. Colourful hands from Wilkos brought the cost of clock to 99p.

Formica Mirror

The previous occupier of our home appears to have had a passion for formica. This mirror has been not only glued to the wall, but screwed and reinforced with timber batons. They were obviously weary of burglars with an eye for this sort of thing.

Before....

These tiles all fell off due to two things: firstly I mixed the adhesive with too much water, and secondly formica/melanine is tricky to tile over.

A coat of watered down PVA plus some No More Nails instead of cement based adhesive and it is ready to grout.

After....

Got these tiles/offcuts for free from a skip outside my local tile shop (County Tiles). Two bags of Unibond grout and the No More Nails  cartridge brought the cost to just under £10.