A tiling we will go....a tiling we will go....

Heigh ho and merry-oh: I think I could tile all day!  Thankfully you'll be saved from my singing, but I've learned that laying tile makes me happy like a happy kinda song.

My first project was this just to add a little bit of tile to a table top I had purchased from World Market.  That went pretty well, and I found I really enjoyed it.  At this point, I'm surprised I don't have tile on all the flat surfaces in my house.  But for now, I'll keep it simple.

This second project was a freebie.  This tray is an old brown in/out box my husband had from his first job.  It came home with him, and he had some kind of emotional connection with it.  This ugly brown box was moved around the garage (and moved with us from one house to the next!).  Every time I could ask him if it was a "toss" or "donate" pile item, he would say no, it was a keeper.  So I kept it, which is completely against my anti-hoarding personality.

I finally had had enough.  It was use it or lose it time.  The ugly brown in-box first got a new coat of paint, leftover from this project.

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 Next, I played with the tiles (leftover from this project, another freebie) until I settle on a plain fill-er-in type of pattern.

 Next, it's time to dig into the compound: I bought a small tub of tile adhesive at Lowe's that is premixed and ready to use.  That makes your job so much easier, as you don't have to mix or wonder if you've gotten the adhesive to the right consistency.

 Spread it out, and trowel it with the trowel, which puts down even little rows that are ready for your tiles to stick to.

Voila... Tiles!   I added grout (again, premixed from Lowe's) and we were done!  The hardest part was keep the edges of the tray clean from the messiness of it all: In the future, I may use painters tape to make the process easier.

Now....do you think I can get him to find me more random office furniture to paint?