8. How long did it take you to make?

No.	Artist	Country	Response
4, 30, 245, 246	Jan Abbotts	Aust	As there are a few that I have done it’s not possible really to say how long they took altogether. One budgie took around 3-4 hours probably (that’s with tea breaks of course).
12,13	Janelle & Kirra Csurhes	Aust	I took a couple of days and Kirra’s was all done in one day.
19, 101, 106, 123, 176, 180, 181	Donna Coogan & Family	USA	Donna - It took me about 2 weeks to make my 3 mosaics. Because I was helping the others, I didn’t start on mine until everyone else was done. The kids all came down with a bad cold for several weeks and that stopped production for a while. But, generally, the boys took about 2 weeks of working off and on to complete their mosaics. My husband blew us all away and created his butterfly in 2 or 3 days. My daughter did her flamingo in an afternoon. My 4yo played around with a few designs, but the elephant is the only one I finished for him and submitted for the mural.
24, 175, 207	Liz, Matt & Alannah Greenham	Aust	A couple of days each.
25, 26	Carolyn Crawford	USA	Two months (with other projects).
27,28	Veronica Schubert	Aust	The first flamingo took a couple of months because he had to be packed away in the middle of proceedings, we needed the table for Christmas! The second took about three weeks
29	Valerie Fuqua	USA	2 ½ weeks on and off
34	Nancy Neubauer	USA	Each baby croc took approximately 8 hours to create. I work slow.
78	Hilde Hader	Canada	2 days.
87, 88	Karen & Laura Apolloni	USA	Several hours of actual work, spread out over months.
150	Peggy L. Brown	USA	Two months, not working on it every day.
167	Jan Stiffler	USA	Approx. 4 hours before grouting.
179	Christine Brallier	USA	22.5 hours.
183, 184	Linda L Phillabaum	USA	Oh, I’d say about 2 weeks for the Puffin and about 4 weeks for the dolphin, due to other projects in the house.
193, 209	Dianne Schnarr	New Zealand	A couple of hours a day for about 7 days.
199	Christine McKenzie	New Zealand	About three weeks in total, first 3 days getting ideas from Google images, drawing up the pictures and preparing he mesh base, about 10 days in the actual making – the addictive part, then a week to dry before packaging up.
202	Carolyn and Anna Talarr	USA	Carolyn - ? WAY too long; much time was spent doubting myself and worrying about whether Terri would ever recognize Malina, if she would remember her, if it would matter, if I was ruining Malina's splendid face, and taking out and redoing each part probably at least three times...all in all, I started in early November and finished in late January. There were weeks I didn't work on it at all because I wasn't sure I could do it justice. Anna - About five days.
206	Liz Brazelton	USA	Most of it was done by the children in one day. I finished up the eyes and mouth in another afternoon.
210, 211	Caroline Kovacs	Aust	It took me a couple of weeks of thinking and pouring through picture books and then once I started it only took me two days or two sittings.
212, 215	June Johnstone	Aust	Two days, once I made a start I couldn’t leave.
213	Sandy Ozols	Aust	1^st mosaic, The Australian Pelican was completed over many weeks as this was my1st glass mosaic. Many hrs converting my photo to a line drawing then scale up by drawing on a Grid, found the drawing wasn’t exactly suited to the tesserae but I continued gluing tile to the mesh & correcting the design as it progressed. One color unavailable so discovered glass to complete the beak & smalti to convey some kind of detail to the eye. 2^nd project The Ulysses butterfly only took a weekend to glue & a few hrs to design a template 3^rd mosaic The Emerald Tree Boa. Designed with a book on how to draw animals, a few hrs to sketch & enlarge. My photo from Melbourne zoo of 2 Emerald Tree Boas was used as a reference to change the design. Two solid days of wet season rain and many more hours again with slight changes to the design as tiles were laid.
233	Denny Nkemontoh	USA	About six hours.
235	Michelle Curow (aka Dotty Marzipan)	Canada	Once the process started, I’d guess 5 or 6 hours, which amazes me actually. I really got into the mojo of mosaics on this one.
236	Dotti Stone	USA	Off and on, including research about 5-6 days.
239	Deborah Boyd	USA	It took about two weeks.
240, 241, 242, 243, 244	Lynne Mosiman	USA	The girls made their mosaics in a few short hours one afternoon. Irene made her two mosaics in several sessions over a two month period. Lynne worked on her piece intermittently for a year.
247, 248	Tracey Holland (mrsdutchy)	Aust	The elephant took about 6 hrs and the croc about 3 hrs.
250	Wendy Clayton-Langley	USA	A week – tried different colours until I settled on these.
249, 251	Maria Kokkoris	Aust	On and off 4 weeks – in hours 5 hours.
	Berta Sergeant	USA	I worked on these pieces for several days, whenever I could.
	Carol Shelkin	USA	It took about two weeks.