Making Monday [#9]

This past week was AH-MAZING! 
Thank you to everyone who joined in on the party and I'm so glad to see how much it is growing!! 
Lori and I have had so much fun going through all of your links and I know I had a hard time picking features. Thank you all for sharing with us and joining the party. 


Now that the party is growing I just want to ask you guys to be sure to follow your hosts! Lori and I put a lot of time in to getting each party ready so we would really love if y'all could take a few minutes to get to know us also! 

Follow Lori from A Bright & Beautiful Life at any of these fab spots: 
Facebook / Twitter / G+ / Pinterest

& me with any of these bad boys:

Now that that is out of the way check out some of the super awesome features this week! 



Keeping Up With Mrs. Smith shared how she tiled her kitchen backsplash. This is a HUGE project, and I'm so jealous that she was able to take this on. I wish so bad I could add tile to my kitchen or bathroom but not yet, not yet... Her tutorial is great! Super honest and gives some great tips on ways to make sure you are getting everything done right. I know I would be so anxious to start something like this because it seems so permanent, what if I mess up!! So thank you for sharing your super honest kitchen make over, makes me feel less crazy :) 


Cara at the Craft Dictator made her own pallet sofa/bed for her small apartment. I love the fact that instead of using a real pallet she finds a way to get the same look with new lumber. Pallets are great but some times can be a bigger pain than help. And her tutorial is perfect, I'm hoping to modify this for our guest/craft room. I love the look it has both as a sofa and a bed, super fab friend!! Thanks for sharing!



And finally, Alison from Pies and Puggles these wooden bowls are perfect! First of all I loved them before the paint, but the paint sure does add a little something special. I pretty much am lusting over these. I have a full set of wooden bowls and I wouldn't have the guts to paint them but oh my word with the fabulous colors and the gold accents who can say no! And the tutorial seems so totally simple that if I ever find another set I will be trying this :)

Thank all of you ladies for sharing SO MUCH! It was so hard to choose just 3 fabulous features but your project stuck out enough that I'm honored to have you featured and linked up to our party! Please grab a button and be sure to come back again!!


Kitchen Table Art


And those of you who didn't get featured. No hard feelings because you seriously have no idea how hard it was to choose just three! You all shared some fabulous recipes, projects, and fall inspiration. So please link up again this week and grab a button to share on your blog, or at least link back with a text link. And don't forget to check out the pin board because lots of y'all got featured over there as well!! 

Kitchen Table Art

Excited to see what you all have this week!

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Suitcase Side Table


Wednesdays I wrote a post about my not so perfect living room. If you read it you may have seen this strange looking side table. It kinda looked like a suitcase grew legs and decided to watch TV in the living room. It was my first attempt at turning this road side suitcase in to a new side table. I was so proud of myself for getting the materials and building it all on my own. Then I brought it in side and it could hardly stand up and was WAY to tall. It was a rough day. 

Luckily I have a husband who knows how to save the day and humor my strange little projects around the house. 


Here are some of these materials that I used for the successful version of our side table.
Materials:
- vintage hard suitcase
- 2 staircase banister rungs
- 4 Angle Top Furniture Plates
- 4 Wood hanger bolts
- left over boards


First: Cut the board to fit your suitcase. We chose to fit them in length wise to give the suitcase a little more structure. Use 1 inch screws to secure the boards to the bottom of the case.

Second: Flip the case over and attach the angle top plates in the corners. Be sure that all of your angles are facing the correct way!


Third: Cut the banisters in half, and drill a 1/4 inch hole in the side of the banister that you want at the base of the suitcase.

Fourth: Screw the hanger bolts into the leg. We used vice grips to be sure and twist them in nice and tight. But to keep from messing up the threads on the opposite end of the bolt we wrapped it in electrical tape before placing the vice grips around it. 


The first photo is what the bolt and leg should look like after twisting them in with the vice grips. 

Fifth: After doing the above steps to ever leg you can simply screw the legs in to the angle plates on the bottom of the suitcase! 


And thats how we successfully made a beautiful and unique side table! 
The height of this table works SO much better than before. The arm of our sofa is pretty tall so having it the same height makes it so much easier to access! 


Thought I would use this as an excuse to do a little fall decorating :) 
So here is my little side table pretties. Some of my favorite Instagram pictures, our engagement pictures, burlap scraps, and a little pumpkin I painted with Daniel 2:21 "He changes times and seasons..." plus a pretty cool lamp made from an antique gas can!

Check out the posts about the gas can lamp: here

And this is across the living room. I really like my mantel the way it is so I didn't do anything to that but I added some other painted pumpkins around the base of the fireplace! 

Check out my previous post about the pumpkins: here


So I love the new living room setup. Maybe I can finally do a REAL living room tour :)

Don't forget to enter the Wine and Dine giveaway going on! There are only a few more days left!

Linking this tutorial up to a few parties. Check out the party page on the side bar to see which ones! >>>
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