A Bird Bath Project

I have two of these:

I bought them years ago to use as planters. They never worked well as planters because the dirt dried out too fast, so they've been sitting empty for years while I tried to figure out what else to do with them.

Behold, the bird bath.

My newly landscaped side yard needs some accoutraments, so I'm starting a project to use one of these planters as a base for a bird bath. All I have to do is fashion a top for it. Obviously, this will involve concrete and tiles, and so far, I've been in the design phase.

Since the base is Roman in design, I searched the internet for Roman patterns and came up with this:

I'm thinking about copying the thing tile for tile.  It's quite convenient that it is a photo of a mosaic and I suppose as long as I don't try to sell my bird bath, I can't get sued for plagerism.  I'm even sticking fairly close to the color scheme as I want to coordinate my colors with the base as much as possible.

Anyway, I think this will be cool.  Here is the view of the bird bath from the kitchen window, so the pattern on the top will be appreciated on a daily basis.  

I only need this rain to stop so I can get my hardware cloth out and start constructing a shallow dish.

Stay tuned!