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*Disclaimer* This post will not be all about Wilson. You're bummed. I know. 

Michael likes to laugh when I get a crazy idea that I want to create something and then I go out of my way to get it done. In light of various projects around the house, I've been changing the furniture set up in our main floor living room. I opened up the area for more space, since we were having several guests for Thanksgiving this year. I love having more room on the main floor, but the living room needed something.

A coffee table.

So, the week before Thanksgiving-in addition to Wilson having surgery-I decided to build a coffee table. 

I had seen this one on Pinterest. And decided I could pull it off in just a few short days. We visited one Michael's Craft Store and they were totally out of crates. (I get the feeling there might be a lot of people working on their Pinterest projects.) So the next morning I called around and found another store in the area that had the 4 we needed. After Michael's, it was off to Lowes. We had them cut the 2x4 exactly the way we needed it so we didn't have to do any sawing at home. Also at Lowes, we found the table legs (the idea of a table on wheels, with a toddler is not fun.) and the hardware needed to fasten the entire structure together. We had some left over stain from our floor project. Once the pieces had dried for 24+ hours, I was able to drill some holes, screw some screws and voila! Fancy new coffee table, just in time for Thanksgiving.

Seriously, all of the work-sans drying time-took a total of 3 hours. I love this table!