Welcome to the forum Kristine. I've moved your post to a thread of its own. It'll get a better response that way. Where did you do your course? Was it any good? We're always looking for course feedback to be posted in the
tiling courses forum if you ever have a few minutes one day.
Good luck in finding a tiler to take you on. I know quite a few are doing well at the moment so maybe they have some space.
Can I make a recommendation? - Change your location from a postal code to a county. I'd hate to think you ended up with a stalker from online somehow. I'd like to think we're all okay on here but I know for sure we have some right idiots come and go from time to time.
(Mike from Sweden - anybody remember him?!)