Pallet Table

You might really need to use your best rustic,
rose-colored glasses for this one... 
but stay with me a minute...
This was creative vision at it's best... 

It started out with what I found by the side of the road...

half of a dirty, old, wooden pallet!
(what a find!)

And... a heavy metal table base...

Hmmm.....What to make? 

I got to work cutting...

and yes, this was as messy as it looked!

I cut 3 pieces of the pallet wood to the same length.

I had to remove the old rusty nails 

which was not an easy job!

 I screwed and nailed the three pieces 
to a 2x4 that was on the pallet.

Now I'd like to say voila, like it was a cinch...

But actually it took several hours of

dirty, dusty, back-breaking yanking and nail tugging. 
And it was now about midnight... 
And wait! I'm not finished with this....

 My husband was really hoping

I didn't make this to put inside the house.... 

I could see that look on his face... 
 he gets a lot of those looks...
....but I kept working on it....

I added an old window and a piece of some

old piece of furniture with finials, it had a lot

of character and made a very cool addition... 

I added hooks for hanging on both sides of the window.

And this rusty thing was just begging to be a candle holder!

A last minute change to the top...

About this time my mother stopped by and reminded 

me of a crazy old junk man that used to live in our town when I was a kid. He made all kinds of art with junk 

and displayed it in his front yard.

I'm not sure why my mother thought she 

needed to tell me this story right now...

Maybe she was trying to tell me something...??

Anyway, I like it!

(I just won't put it out in the front yard...)

Susan