diy craft table (aka. the wooly mammoth)

Our table is done!  Our table is done!!  It took six long weeks of arduous labor and then a week of waiting to let the polyurethane cure, but it's done!!!  The folks over at Shabby Dwelling had a great tutorial that was recently taken down.  I was hoping to add a few directions to their otherwise amazing tutorial on how we scaled up the size, but it is no longer there!  And I unfortunately didn't take enough pictures to walk you through the process without their instructions.  Sorry folks!

As we were building, we made lots of mistakes.  Most of the table has been built, taken apart, and rebuilt at least once.  Does that mean we actually built two tables?  Fortunately, none of the mistakes are very noticeable.  And, a few weeks later, I'm not even thinking about them.  Kind of like how I stress over all the minor issues in my new sewing projects until I've worn it a few times and realize I'm the only one that knows.  Or cares.

Visible mistakes aside, the table needed a name.  The Table just isn't good enough.  After the 900,000th piece of cat hair made its way permanently into the endless layers of polyurethane, we decided she's going to be called The Wooly Mammoth.  Feast your eyes on our beast: