Our Coffee Table

Today has been a nice relaxing lazy Saturday.  I enjoyed an evening on the couch reading A Clash of Kings, and a simple dinner of Ramen and a cup of black tea.  

Earlier this week we decided to buy the coffee table we found last weekend while thrifting.  We are thrilled with our new table.  It looks great in our living room.  Our living room is finally coming together!  Next thing on our list to buy?  A couple end tables.  We also would like to buy an entertainment console and better lighting solutions.  I could think of some other things I might like, but those pieces of furniture are more pressing.  Though, I'd love to learn how to make furniture.  

I also took down my Valentine's Day decorations today.  This year I'm going to store them better, so they aren't a tangled mess when I get them out next year.  I taped them down to a flat piece of cardboard.  I taped them with painter's tape at the top and bottom of their strings.  

I hope ya'll are having a good Saturday, and Happy DIYing, chris!

Pen & Marker Storage

A couple weekends ago Aaron and I actual had time off that coincided with each other, and we were able to go thrifting.  Since we're saving for a house, and we want to buy some large piece once we move, we didn't buy much.

I did buy this great wooden glass bottle crate.  It used to be a Chaser liquor shipping container.  Someone painted over it with silver spray paint at some point, and the antique store I found it at had tons!  A whole walk-in closet brimming to the rafters (it was in the attic)!  This little gem was only twelve bucks, and I think it's perfect as is.

Except for this one lil' crack down the middle.  I want it to house my markers and pens, and they'll just fall right through that hole.  

I filled the hole with cardboard, and glued some scrapbook paper down on the inside.  On the bottom I used a piece of black gaff tape to keep the cardboard in.  i'm sure I could have used a jigsaw to cut a piece of wood to fit, but I had all these materials, and no wood or jigsaw for that matter.  man, I'd like a jigsaw!

This is what my marker and pen storage looked like before.

This is what it looks like now.  I'll be able to grab what I need ten times faster now!  So pleased with this purchase, and it will last me a long time.  Looks like I need some more fancy pens in fun colors.  I love buying home office supplies.  The beginning of the school year was always my favorite, because I loved going into Staples or Office Depot and touching all the fun new products.  I could fill a house with home office supplies, from pens to staplers, to notepads and erasers, scissors and rulers, and so many more goodies.  

Hope ya'll are having a great week, and happy DIYing, chris!