Thank you all again! The pieces were glued down on KILZ painted wood with Crafter's Pick, The Ultimate Non-toxic water based super glue from Hobby Lobby. I let the pieces dry for 48 hours. The Grout was Jennifer's Mosaics Indoor/Outdoor powdered white grout from Hobby Lobby. I still need to put two coats of Tile Lab Grout Sealer on.

Good idea. I have found some awesome things at auctions. Especially if you hit one on an off day when there are hardly any bidders. My mom got a like new sofa, love seat and chair for $100 years ago. Luckily a lot of our auctions are indoors where it is air conditioned. Around here, the storage places sell off their spaces at auction. You don't get to go through the stuff before bidding. You can just see what you can through the doorway. Not sure I need that much junk! he-he

Sunday was nice and quiet--until 3pm came! (The clearance) I got all the color photos and descriptions taped onto stakes (of course, most of the few we managed to do on Saturday were plants that sold out!) and the yard looked nice and organized--what with at least half of the plants sold! I'd set all the shade plants in the shady driveway beside the house, and the sunny plants in the backyard. This made sense for security, and there were too many plants to make a move to the front yard feasible. That was fine on Saturday, with the Craig's List group. But on Sunday, we got people driving by because they saw the signs, and they only saw a couple of daylily pots in the yard, and they drove off! I cut up a pizza box to make an extra sign: "Most plants are in the BACK!" At 3pm, a couple of people from the Saturday sale came back for the advertised clearance sale, and some new people arrived shortly afterward. There were 3 people who spent about 5 hours hanging out with us, between Saturday and Sunday! It was really a fun party, except I had to try not to neglect other people who came to buy plants! I made only a third of my money on Sunday, although it was 2/3 of the sale time. In other words, the most money was made in the first few hours, like Tiffy had with her sale. The hard-core people come early, grab and pay. But, then some of them come back for the clearance! I didn't sell all the plants, but that's ok--my friend needs a lot of plants in his yard. :) On Sunday, I had the presence of mind to ask people if they'd be interested in a plant swap. I got contact info for many people who are. Some of them don't use the internet, so I don't know if it's unfair to do a lot of pre-arranging of swaps with people, since they won't have that chance. But maybe that will be the final push to get them onto the internet! Hmm...what did I do to prepare for the sale: I dug about a billion plants out of the ground, and then I kept running out of free dirt for potting them up, and I'd have to search the yard for more. I used up my enormous stash of garbage-picked nursery containers, so every garbage night, I'd go driving around. I used up all my used mini-blinds to make up plant tags. I put just the common name, and sometimes the latin. I used a black Sharpie or Eddings, I hope they don't fade too fast. I always use pencil for myself, but that's hard to see. For info on sun, moisture, size, invasiveness, bloom color and time, and latin name, I made up a sheet that listed every plant. Everyone got the same sheet. For more info, they can look up the plant. About 2 weeks before the sale, I made a Craigs List ad, with all those descriptions, sale hours, the zip code, and an explanation that I would post the address the day before the sale, and would email or phone anybody who wanted the info that way. 4 photos are allowed on CL. I answered a lot of emails. I printed out the description with color photos of the plants in bloom (I stole most photos from the internet!) for signs on stakes. I found all my yarn and string, and decided on a color heirarchy. (By the way, once rained on, Lavender, White and Plain String look very similar! And, don't call it Lavender--people always thought I was talking about the plant!) I tied a LOT of knots on a lot of plants! I made up a price sheet that went by yarn color. Then I changed my mind. Then I made the clearance one. I printed them on different-colored paper to keep track. The color-code made things flexible for me changing my mind, or for when the clearance started. I should have printed up more sheets, because a lot of people took them home, or lingered at the sale. I emailed a lot of people with the address, and called a couple. Then I answered emails from maybe 15 people whose internet caches pages, so they didn't see the address addition. I made signs. I used old election signs, the stitched 2-sided cardboard ones. I cut them open and flipped them inside out, and taped them back together with clear tape (after writing on them). The address and hours, when clearance started, an arrow, and "no early birds." I made 3 signs for streets, one sign for the yard. My friend put the signs out at 10am Saturday. That's about it! :)

An update on this. Sandblasting would have been too expensive, but I did like the frosted idea. I found the permanent Frosting Spray in the link below and I think the tabletop turned out great ~ looks like a new top! If you need paints, this place has the speediest service! I ordered it on a Tuesday and it was delivered the next day UPS! Here is a link that might be useful: Frosting Spray