? on grouting ceremic tiles outdoors

We just got finished with a gazebo and I want to do a floor in it. I found a buggy load of tiles at Lowes that I want to use for the floor. I am going to break them up and do a mosiac design in it. What I am wanting to do is this..... I figured I'd start in the center of it and do a circle with some of the drive in flower bed edging stuff. This would be only temperary just to hold the concrete until it dried. I was going to pour in the quik crete and then lay the broken tiles on top. THEN do another circle around that one and so on until I got out to the edge of the gazebo. I was not going to mash the tiles down into the concrete because I wanted to do the grout in-between the tiles so it would be white and not gray when I got finished. Can you use grout outdoors? Has anyone done this and has it held up? Will the concrete hold the tiles in place when I get the grout in there IF that will work outdoors? any suggestions from those that have done stuff like this before? The reason I want to do small circles and start in the middle is because I have a bad back and I wanted to do a little at a time on it until I get it finished and I think this will look really neat because you will be able to see the circles in there when I finish.

You can certainly use grout out of doors.

Your described method above sounds like it might cause you to have an uneven finished project.

here are two links that might be helpful.
I haven't checked them in a while but the hgtv link used to show a step by step instructions for doing mosaics and the other shows another project we did using mosaics .

www.hgtv.com/hgtv/gardening/ article/0,1785,HGTV_3546_1378790,00.html - 52k

www.taunton.com/finegardening/pages/g00121.asp - 27k

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