Serve a delicious pumpkin frozen yogurt pie from Berry Austin. Made with a homemade graham cracker crust and non fat pumpkin frozen yogurt, our pie will add a berry cool twist to your traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Just remove the pie from freezer five minutes before slicing and serving! Serves four. $9.75 + tax.
Read MoreOnce you have all your materials securely attached to your wall it is time to grout. Grouting is the messiest part of creating a mosaic. Before you begin, you’ll want to give some thought to color. The darker the color of the grout, the more it will recede allowing your objects to pop. But if the negative space created by the grout is an integral part of your design, you may want to consider making it a color – keeping in mind how it...
Read MoreI mean, seriously, how hard could it be? The fact that my friend Nancy and I had no experience creating mosaics was never a deterrent. In retrospect, however, I would advise someone attempting a mosaic for the first time to start on a smaller project before embarking on a thirty foot long wall. Do as I say, not as I do, right? In my case however, ignorance was bliss. My contractor, HHCC, built the walls and covered them with hardie board which...
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Not a day goes by that I don’t get a question about how the mosaics were made in Berry Austin. So this will be the subject of blog post #1: How the Mosaics at Berry Austin Came to be…or, Ignorance is Bliss. When I developed the initial concept for Berry Austin one of my goals was to use as many recycled materials as possible. From the very beginning the earliest little seeds of inspiration included thoughts of how I could...
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