So, i had a blog a couple years ago that lasted a couple months and only contained a couple posts. My life was pretty boring back then...not that its much less boring now, but i have become more creative in how i live my boring life :)
Now that i am a homeowner, and the creation of the ever-so addicting pinterest , i have lots of opportunities to do lots of cool shit!
My first completed pinterest project was a super cute and DIY coffee table!
Im not going to lie, this was more work than i thought, but i think it made it that much more rewarding when it was finally complete. I just bought for crates from Michaels, (using a coupon for each one, of course) and then went to the local home depot, which is thankfully walking distance from my house and got some cherry colored gel stain. Thankfully there was a really nice old guy you thought i was funny so he was extra helpful in giving me advice on what to use and recommended the gel as it is easier to work with.
On a sunday morning, i got up, got my daily starbucks, and got my stain on! Be sure to wear gloves! No one told me that and i walked around looking like a got a bad spray tan just on my hands for a day or two...
After everything was dry i used my handy dandy electric screwdriver to screw those bitches together. easy enough! it was too short just sitting on the floor so i took some scrap wood leftover from a shed that my dad and i had taken apart a couple months prior and made some legs!
The finished product turned out great! Everyone that comes over loves it and there is plenty (maybe a little too much considering all the clutter that has gathered) storage. The only issue i had was with the top. Its not very conducive to setting shit on, which is the purpose of a coffee table, right?
This leads us to coffee table phase 2, which i actually just came up with last night....
I had gotten some starbucks gift cards for christmas and my birthday and random other occasions that were all over the damn place. I decided last night that i was going to gather them all up and register them on my gold card....turned out that i had quite a lot!
This left me with lots of left over gift cards with no money on them. Then it came to me, a coffee table lined with coffee gift cards! I'm a fucking genius!
So i went to my local starbucks this morning and asked them to save the gift cards that people have used up and just have them trash. woohoo! I even had someone offer to send me some from hawaii :)
Hopefully I'll have an update on this one sooner rather than later!
Special shoutout to Nikki for getting me back on the blogging bandwagon. Check her out at http://supernovamom.com or http://www.facebook.com/SuperNoVaMom/info or here, http://www.purematters.com/blog/expert/nikki-johnson/ or if you want some yummy goodies you should check out http://nomsbynikki.com or http://www.facebook.com/nomsbynikki. Damn, that is one busy mama of two!
I promise that this will be the longest post i ever write, but i tried to include pics to keep your attention. Let me know what you think!
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