Way back yonder in October, I bought a groupon to attend a mosaic class at Mercury Mosaics in Minneapolis. I bought two actually – one for me and one for Sara. Cassie bought one as well and later I discover that Erin [a college friend of one of my high school friends/blogger at growing up gaffney] also had a date with ceramic tiles and grout coming up. And so the fellowship of the mosaic class was formed.
We started with dinner on the patio at Psycho Suzi’s [ahh, patios.] and then made our way to class where we dug through bins of tiles on the ’tile buffet,’ organized, reworked, and finally used an adhesive with texture like cream cheese to make our work permanent, all while navigating interactions with the incredibly awkward instructor and incredibly rude fellow classmates. Grouting was sent home with us, the final step to be done after the adhesive cures for at least a full day. Here are our [nearly] final [still grout-less] products:
there's no place like gnome. 
Yay!!