The big sun table

I really needed a nice outdoor table.  But have you priced outdoor furniture lately?  Couldn't do it.  So I bought an old metal set from a garage sale.  It was all white and pretty banged up.

I painted the pieces black, but they still looked shoddy.

So using a big piece of plywood and some 1x2s around the outside of that, I made a frame the size of the table top and made this mosaic:

 I got most of the tiles from the local salvage store.  Breaking them up was fun.  I just threw them in the air and hit them with a hammer as they fell into a large plastic tub.

Making the mosaic is easy.  Just put down a thin layer of mortar, place the tiles, then grout.

The top just sits on the old metal table.  It's heavy enough not to blow off or move at all.  But I can remove it in the winter time and store it in my shed nice and safe.