whoah
that last one was heavy. sorry.
we bought tile from restore yesterday. it'll be enough to subway brick the bottom all the way around, and then there will be a row of diagonal 8x8 tiles around the middle. we also found a suitable "filler" tile at home depot. i wanted to spend my homeowner life never going into home depot, but the selection at menards was laughable.
the only thing we purchased was one, half-priced hot dog.