Busy, Busy, Busy!!!

I have been super busy since my last post!

Up first, my office project!!!



My office is a very small awkward space. It's long and narrow, but it has a HUGE closet!!!

The main problem was the fact that I didn't have a desk. Just a table that was too wide and took up too much floor space.

I needed a desk that served not only as a space to work, but something that had good storage and didn't take up way to much floor space.

Ignore the mess. Until I decided to build something for the space, this room was a catch-all for clutter!

I looked and looked and couldn't find anything I loved until I ran across THESE plans on Ana-white.com. The depth of the desk was perfect, but I needed more storage, so I decided to play in with sketchup and see if I couldn't make it more of what I needed. 

I ended up with this amazing piece of woodworking fun! It took me a long weekend to cut, sand, and paint, but in the end, I am thrilled with it in my space! 

This is mid-build. I was test fitting the top (which is laying upside down in the pic).

This is the desk in the space.

I had originally planned on finding some baskets or even the fabric boxes for the four small shelves, but then a friend gave me four boxes and they fit the space perfectly! I will eventually cover them with fabric or scrapbook paper and modgepodge, but for now, they serve their purpose storage!

I found a Rubbermaid organizer for my pens, papers, and random junk. Add a couple of magazine holders for my binders and notebooks and then stick my printer on the bottom and ta-da! I'm slowly, but surely I am finding little knick-knacks to fill it in. 

Making these shelves wide created the perfect space for my printer and binders.

I am now in love with this space! It has become my "nest". I can sit in here and write or sew or just hide from my kids!

I still have a lot of work to do in the space before it is "complete". The hubs and I have decided that the floors need to be updated and I will most likely be painting the walls. I also have plans to add floating shelves and a cork board to the wall behind the desk! For now, it's perfect!

Kitchen Island/Cabinet

I have a really small galley style kitchen. One of the biggest issues of my kitchen is not enough storage space. I have no where to store my larger small appliances like my crockpot and blender.



I'd been searching Pinterest for some ideas and had just about decided that I was going to have to come up with my own design when Shanty2Chic posted a picture of something like what I wanted on their facebook page.  Soon, the plans were posted on Ana-white.com.  The original plans posted were for a single width smaller cabinet. I had already changed up the plans and started building a double width when she posted them!

I was in love with it, but I knew it needed to be wider to fit my space and be usable. Plus, I didn't want to have the space in the back for stools. I wanted something that had a good amount of storage so I extended the box that was the shelf area and did away with the back board and side boards. I also extended the drawers to the back of the piece.

This is the final piece sitting in my kitchen! I am absolutely in love with it. I am able to put my bigger small appliances on the bottom shelf. I use the second shelf for my shopping bags and two litter drinks. The drawers are a great spot for all my ziploc bags, foil, and parchment paper. I use one drawer for my baking tools that I don't use on a regular basis.

To date, I think this is my favorite project of all of the ones I have built for myself!

What's a table without a bench?

After building my table, I just knew that I needed a bench to go with it. I saw the bench that most people had built with the Rustic Table was the Rustic X Bench, so that's what I decided to build!

I painted/stained the bench to match my table and I think it turned out fabulously!

Dining Room Table

My dining room table was my very first DIY woodworking project.


I saw a table that I loved on Pinterest, but I knew there was no way I was paying what they wanted for it. After looking at it a million times, I just knew that I could do it myself. It was all in figuring out what the measurements needed to be!

I started "Googling" tips for building furniture and that is when I struck gold with Ana-white.com !!!!

I click her site and was in love from that moment on!

My table was built with the Rustic Table Plans.

My table ended up being 6' long and 38 1/2" wide. It was built to suit my space.

 The main difference between her plan and mine was the legs. I didn't want the bulk of the 2x4 for a leg, so I used 2 1x4 glued together and the front piece was shorter to sit flush with the side aprons of the table.

The table top was also a little different from Ana's plans. I needed it to fit the table I was building. I ended up using 3 1x10's and 2 1x6's. 

I finished it off with a coat of basic black paint on the bottom and a stain for the top.

I built my table in February of 2013 and from there, I have fallen in love with building furniture. 

Is my project perfect? Heck no. But the fact that I built it with minimal help from anyone makes me proud every time I walk by it!

From the beginning

Once upon a time,


I had a blog. I blogged and I loved it. Over time, my love for my blog died a slow and painful death. Why? I'm not really sure, but I think it was because my blog had no sense of purpose. I didn't want to just blog about my family stuff, but I didn't want to bore my followers with my craft stuff.

With that decision, I stepped away from blogging and did other things.


During that time, I discovered that I love to sew and work with wood!


I was always so jealous of people with talent and all along, I just needed to learn what I loved!


This blog will become the place I share my creative adventures so feel free to hang out and see what I get up to!