The plates of course have some depth, so I was not sure if I filled with grout and then placed chipped pieces of dishes into grout if this would work or if it would be too heavy with that much grout.

If that is not a doable project what does someone use to make a trivet as a base ? Should it have a cork layer ?

I would greatly appreciate anyone's thought and suggestion in regard to this.

Deb

Wanted to play alittle with this before I tried the inside of the cabinet.

Now I see that I cannot get my picture to show ? I put it on Photobucket and copied link, what did I do wrong ?
Any thoughts, help or tips is appreciated.

Keep those tips coming.

on grout, I find using a grout that is lighter in color that the tesserae will make your grout lines look bigger and your eye will see grout as forward and the tess looks small and in the background... so for that reason I would rarely choose white acept in special circumstances

here's a link to a grouterizer, to help you see what different colors look like with different color grouts

In the past, I have used black, grey, ocean blue, sandstone, bone, terra cotta, and liked them all.

If you go to the link below and scroll all the way down to the end of the article, you will see an example of pale brown grout which is what I used on my stairs.

I know that the grout color on this piece will be very important, since I have alot of space between most pieces, good thing this is a practice piece.

THANK you all so much for the help.