Not much to report today. I am still semi-consumed by this tile workshop thing and have been practicing on L. Yesterday I made her learn to put tiles down with the adhesive and today I taught her how to apply grout. She has decided that I do not charge nearly enough for installing tile. Heh.
L has been extremely patient with me as I have practiced teaching people how to lay tile. Yesterday, I put on my teacher voice and we spread adhesive on some plywood and then laid out the tiles.
We each did a couple of boards of tiles so that there will be something ready to be grouted at Saturday's workshop. Here are a couple of samples ready to go.
We did a couple boards with that cool artisan-made tile I got down on Little Deer Isle and for fun today, I taught L how to apply grout and then clean the tiles. Here is the finished product of her efforts. She and I are both quite proud!
That's it for today. Writing over at the other blog is taking some of my time, but not as much as I had feared. It is the research that is exhausting!
6 comments:
Are you going to frame L's tiled & grouted board and turn it into an end table?
"It is the research that is exhausting!"
Bwahahahahaha!
(I should only have research like that in my life - can you spell "overtired and in a serious rut"?)
I put mosaic tile on a small table a few years back (watched a lot of DIY shows when on my first maternity leave) - looked fantastic, but I missunderstood the instructions and thought I had to let the grout dry before cleaning off the excess! It still looks good, but it's a bumpy messy good LOL.
very nice tiles...
OH! I love your tile! And skills. We have no skills.
Wow! Those tiles look so lovely. And I really must make that carrot ginger soup. -C
great tile skills! and, it seems the "research" on your other blog, while "exhausting", is going swimmingly as well, if you don't mind my sayin :j
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