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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Craft table 101

With all of the heavy lifting projects I have still to do in the basement before Monday, I can't imagine why I thought putting together my craft table was going to be a good idea, but I thought an hour here and there today and I would be fine.  I have a Craft A Thon coming up on Sunday and I really want my table to work at.  It will be so much fun, and how hard can this truly be?
You do know that is really funny.  It was amazing at how tiring it was for me to even begin, but once I had the parts out of the box, I knew it was something I was going to have to finish or risk losing pieces. 
The instruction sheet said the average time was 50 minutes, so I knew I had to at least double that.  Well, lets go with four times that average and it's not quite done yet.  Of course part of the problem right now is that it is too heavy for me to lift by itself and the crap workmanship on the parts means that not everything fits as it should. 
So I have an upside down craft table waiting for a bit of help from my lawn guy tomorrow, and it will be done and something else marked off the list.  I am sure he will have no problem getting the last two bolts in and righting the table so that I can figure out how to make it tilt, or not. 
My achy muscles and I are going to pour a nice glass of wine before dinner and enjoy a bit of the sun tonight.  It feels really good outside.
Are they serious?



I get to update this post, it is so exciting to have something else finished.  My sister had some free time today so she can over and together we figured out the table.  She had the last two bolts in place rather quickly, and then as we were figuring out how to turn the table right side up, we found I had made a mistake in one of the parts.  After we fixed that, everything was much more stable and we were able to turn the table up right.  It is going to be so nice to work at, and it tilts so that I can use it as a drawing table if I want to.  Now how fun is that?

 I guess they were!  Isn't it pretty?

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