✨ Binny the MOBIS: Shard Snatcher ExtraordinaireHer mosaics shimmered with Aussie spirit, poetic flair, and just the right amount of irreverence. But nothing captured her creative soul quite like the bin chicken—Australia’s unofficial mascot of mischief.

So naturally, Sandy built one.

Not a regular ibis, mind you. This was Binny the MOBIS—a robotic, cubistic, wheelie-bin-bodied bird with safety glasses perched proudly on its beak and a hunger for tesserae. Its green torso was emblazoned with SHARDS TESS, and its wheels squeaked like a chorus of cockatoos on bin day.

Binny’s mission? To scuttle around the studio collecting stray shards like a glitter-seeking missile. Smalti, mirror chips, broken beer bottles—nothing escaped its telescoping beak. It honked triumphantly with every rare find, flapping its angular wings and wagging its bottle-cap tail like a caffeinated broom.

But the real comedy unfolded on kerbside bin collection day.

As neighbors wheeled their bins to the street, Binny would bolt out the studio door, scanning the pavement like a treasure-hunting gremlin. “Oi! Binny!” Sandy would shout, apron flapping in the breeze. “That’s not studio stash, that’s actual trash!”

Binny didn’t care. It circled bins like a judge at a shard show, occasionally mistaking a pizza box for a potential mosaic base. Sandy, ever the visionary pragmatist, would rescue it mid-snatch, laughing as she tucked a glittery sliver into her pocket. “Well, not everything’s a canvas… but that lid’s got potential.”

Visitors adored Binny. They’d arrive for a mosaic workshop and stay for the spectacle—watching the robot ibis zip across a pile of broken pottery like a caffeinated kangaroo on wheels.

Sandy even gave it a collector’s card:

And so, in a studio where every shard had a story and every bin chicken had a name, Binny became legend. A celebration of mosaic magic, Aussie slang, and the joyful chaos of creation.