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Louise Furlong, of Strasburg, sits in her home by some tables and a guitar she transformed using ceramic and glass tiles, and rubber modeling clay. Rich Cooley/Daily

STRASBURG -- Tile by tile, shard by shard, Edith "Louise" Furlong pieces together scenes from the Shenandoah Valley, from her past and from great works of art, into mosaic masterpieces.

"I started the year I turned 80," she said in the living of her Strasburg condo. "[I was] bored to death. I moved into a condominium and [had] nothing to do. I started watching [Home and Garden channel] HGTV craft shows. Every time I saw somebody doing the mosaic, I kept saying to myself, 'I can do that.'"

After about a year of listening to herself say she could do it, Furlong, who has been mostly deaf since illness stole her hearing at age 3, decided to take up the craft.....

Read more at -  http://www.nvdaily.com/lifestyle/2009/06/an-eye-for-art-woman-realizes.html