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starting my tile backsplash tonight I think.
never done tile.
I laid the tile (mosaic) out on the counter on a short section and precut for the outlet and length and height. I hope this was not too big of a mistake, although I already have to go back and recut it. (yes keep cutting and its still too short).

what happened was when I started to do the other wall I found the gap between the counter and wall was too big so I put hardiboard on the back wall and that shortened the other wall by 1/4 inch, no big deal.

I have some of the other wall laid out also. one outlet box was close to the corner so I cut for that one, the other outlet was too far away to precut.

I practiced on a spare sheet of sheet rock. good thing, it was suggested to use a 1/4 by 1/4 trowel, that turned out to be too big and the mud was coming up between the small tiles. so I worked my way down to a very small "V" notched trowel that seems to be good,.
also got to practice how much thin set to put on.