She said she learned about cutting the glass and about color but right after the workshop, she said she still wasn’t sure exactly what she had learned.

“But it’s really when you get home that you start to apply the information that you learn,” she said.

“When I got back from Italy, I found a new sense of concentration and focus from my Italian experience. It was the trip of a lifetime for me,” she said.

She said there were not that many people in the country who do mosaics on the level she does. She considers herself a master in her craft but felt like there was always more to learn.

She was recently honored internationally for her Smalti piece, “Asian Garden,” which will be on display at the Colquitt County Arts Center during the month of February and then go to Miami, Fla., in April for the Mosaic Arts International show.

“What Smalti has done for me is it’s allowed me to perfect my artistic abilities. How to translate ... using glass ... how to translate what’s in my head or what’s in my client’s head,” she said.

Just recently another one of her mosaics, “The Wonder of Innocence,” was accepted into the “Global Perspectives” show at The Atelier Gallery in Miami. She created the mosaic piece of the Packer mascot that is on display at the Colquitt County High School, and she created the mosaic for the floor at the Blue Sky Grill.

Sasine teaches workshops at the Colquitt County Arts Center and will be offering a mosaic workshop on Pique Assiette, which is a broken china, on March 1 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and March 2 from 2 to 4 p.m.

“The class is for anyone who has a special piece of china or pottery (or we have a bunch to chose from) and wants to make something fun with it,” she said.

“I love it, I love it, I love it. It’s just such a passion of mine,” she said.