Love the WIP & the cute dishes especially the tulip saucer! The little blue cups are so cute too. Can you get a church or community group to build a "Second -time around house" to store things people can use. A group could make it a project to keep the shelves stocked. Girl Scout or Boy Scout project maybe! Good Luck! Jan

Wow, thanks everyone, for the great ideas. I just love the sharing from everyone in this group.... I loved EVERY idea you guys suggested!! I was planning on the kite thing, but your suggestions for the fishing pole, flag, etc were so great....made me think that I should make them all, and then just trade them out - sometimes he'll be holding a flag, other times flying a kite, etc......very cool! That way I don't have to settle on ONE idea! And picking up a dog or a frog or what ever I can find of the right size at a TS will be perfect at the bottom!!! Oh, and I loved the idea of the puddle, too! Thanks, everyone!!! Here's an updated picture....just a little more to go on his coveralls. Oh, and NICE....I don't THINK I'm going to paint the other parts...unless you had a particular idea in mind?

Ok, here is the finished clock. I mixed a dark charcoal with white grout and got a deep gray color. I think. Boy what a mess, And , it took longer than i thought, still i guess it is okay. Because I managed to rub the grout off both sides of the clock(where there wasn't any tile) I decided to just leave it off. I guess I could paint it but I'm starting to like it. Had to glue a few tiles back on . I have to learn the art of grouting multiple depths , because it was a real pain!!! Maybe add the gems after I grout?? Ye Grout genius's please tell me how you do this!!!!!!

mermaid4life, thank you but I can't take credit for all those perfect cuts, those tiles were purchased like that from a big box store - already cut for a backsplash or a floor medallion - I think the medallion cost me $9. The bowl is 15 inches in diameter and 3.6 inches tall, big, round, and wide. I bought two of these ceramic bowls at the Salvation Army last year for $5.00 thinking I would glaze them, but then realizing I didn't know that type of clay they were I couldn't risk putting them in a kiln for fear they would melt. So I sealed them and finally got around to mosaicing them this past week or so. Keep in mind I have never done any mosaic so I was looking for something easy and simple - so I wouldn't get discouraged with my first couple of projects. No cuts involved, just arranging the tiles or gems (as in the other bowl) and then grouting them. The stone tiles in the middle are 1/4 inch and the ones up the side are 1/2 inch stone tiles except the top (black ones) are 1/4 inch again. I bought antique white sanded grout, but the seams are so small I may get some unsanded grout for the stone bowl and use the sanded grout for the turquoise gem bowl. As I am looking at the two bowls now, I wish I would have had the forethought to drill a hole in the center of each bowl, to make them usable for top mounted vanity sinks - they would be perfect for that. that is if they were sealed somehow. Perhaps next time.