Look what I made! A Hockey Table

It has just been recently after all of those countless hours on Pinterest that I finally have something to show for it. I found this original table and immediately wanted to make a hockey themed one! I showed Kirk and we decided to make one this year for his dad, a huge Philadelphia Flyers fan, for Father's Day. And as I know Kirk will be reading this at some point [Hey Kirk!], I want to point out now that I had very little to do with the making of this table so the "Look what I made" should be "Look what Kirk made". 

The original table idea

 We* started with wood glue, clamps, and four hockey sticks. We put a line of glue on the sticks, stuck two together and clamped it. 

 The next part required me helping so I had to put the camera down. We put more glue on the other sticks and attached them to the other sticks. These were then clamped and left to dry. 

After drying for 5 - 10 minutes or so, Kirk screwed the sticks together. Two screws were put in on one stick and another two in the opposite direction. We couldn't find the perfect size of screws so we ended up putting in more screws then planned in order to ensure it was secure. 

The next part of the project was the table top. Kirk cut out two circles from some leftover plywood we had from the shed platform. These pieces were sanded down to smooth out the edges. The large circle was the table top and the smaller piece was extra support. 

Safety glasses on!

Then we primed and painted both pieces black. Before painting the top of the table black Kirk screwed the pieces together. He then covered the screw hole so it wasn't so obvious. The table top was then painted. 

This is the smaller circle

Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of the finished product but it looks exactly the same as the above pictures, only with a black top instead of white. 

We think Kirk's dad liked the table and while it took longer than we originally planned, I think it turned out really well!! 

A Lazy Sunday Afternoon: Waffles and Demolition

Kirk made delicious waffles [and a big mess, but certainly not as big of a mess as I make every time I cook] and then we worked on a TOP SECRET Father's Day gift for Kirk's dad. After that we decided that we would take out the columns that were at the end of the property. They marked the property line but they were ugly and falling down. Now that they are down we are going to build cedar boxes to plant some flowers in. 

Kirk's waffle mess

"I ate too many waffles!"

The column

After getting the top off

A BIG mess

We needed reinforcements

The other column

A mysterious pipe that we hoped wasn't still connected! [It wasn't]

Trying not to make a mess...

...which didn't work too well

We filled in the holes with soil and grass seed, which we are currently patiently waiting for. Kirk checks the progress every day. Thankfully it has been raining quite a bit recently so I haven't had to water it much. Not that I mind watering it, it is just a huge pain in the arse watering anything around here because we don't have a hose so I have to take the watering can inside to the kitchen sink. Needless to say, getting a hose hooked up is on our 'to do' list. 

A Lazy Sunday Afternoon: A Shed

We have been busy recently so I thought I would put up some pictures of what we have been up to recently. 

The Shed - we purchased this before going to Disney and only got around to building it on the long weekend. Even though we bought it on sale, the base ended up being quite expensive. The instructions for the shed said that it should take two people eight hours but Kirk calculated that it took us roughly thirteen hours to build it. Hence the pictures of us building the shed in the dark, using a flood light. It has a great experience for Kirk and I, working on this together even though we were both exhausted after. 

Building the base for the shed

Testing it out

It's level!

Putting the floor down

One corner finished

Working late into the night

Happy to be done!

All finished!

All filled!