Mosaic Mailbox Supplies
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- Mosaic Mailbox Supplies
Most of the supplies for the mosaic mailbox were sourced from Etsy. Etsy is this wonderful place where you can find all things handmade. We found cute things like:
As the theme of the first Mosaic Mailbox design is our ocean and beach we also went to the local sea shell store in Key West and bought some small assortments of shells suitable for the mailbox design. Local beaches provided additional goodies, such as sea glass, small shells and other bits and pieces you can find during sunrise or sunset walks on any of our wonderfull beaches here.
The staple of mosaic mailbox supplies is art stained glass. This was sourced from stained glass wholesale source. Here is a pallete of our glass pieces on order: Tropical waters blue green pallette and Florida Keys sunset pallette.
Update 4-16-2006 Finally our shipment of supplies arrived. We will complete the first mailbox within a week and post detailed photo in the first section of the mosaic mailbox page.
This section will be expanded with the detailed list of tools and suppliers so if you wanted to get your supplies and tools for your own stained glass mosaic mailbo from the same vendor, stay tuned.
Update 5-6-2008 Here is a list of most important supplies. We only bought the best we could find to assure the mailbox will last through exposure to sun, humidity, rain and sleet and be as frost resistant as possible.
To transfer our mosaic from the flat paper where we have designed the piece onto the actual mailbox, we have used clear adhesive paper from Cleartec.
Since the mailbox mosaic is for outdoor use we have chosen Polyurethane Premium Liquid Nails to glue the mosaic pieces to the mailbox. The Acrylic Emanel reducer is used to clean off the extra glue wherever necessary.
For grouting we use the white sanded grout and go the extra mile to weatherproof the grout mix using TEC Acrylic Grout Aditive, which makes the grout weatherproof. It is an extra cost but well worthed for any outdoor mosaic project.
We also used the best grout sealer we could find to assure this mailbox will stand up to any weather conditions.
Update 5-2-2008 our first set of mailboxes sold locally. We are located in Florida Keys, so a custom mailbox with a tropical design is quite popular here. At the moment we are in process of making additional mailboxes of our design and will post them here when they become available for sale.
Update 6-10-2008 We have just posted pictures of the finished stained glass mosaic mailbox with tropical fish design. This particular design sells for $250 and more are being made as we post this. If you wanted to book one for you, bearing in mind we have about 3 weeks backlog, you can do so by calling our customer service at 1-800-761-XMAS number and we will make one for you as well. The shipping on this mailbox is $18.75
