I built this table today with about $12.00 worth of wood. I am quite happy with how it turned out. I will use it as a temporary desk for my new computer, then later when the addition to our house is complete I will use it as a palette table in the studio.
The real reason, or I should say the other reason I was at Blue Genie to today was for E.A.S.T ( The East Austin Studio Tour).
Sometime around noon people started coming in for the tour. So after awhile I put my new table out where this picture was taken and talked to my friend Whitney (an artist also on the tour) all day about how proud of myself I was for making it. And for doing it on only 12 dollars. Oh how I went on and on and on. I talked about it all day, as anyone who knows me personally knows that I tend to do. And I had had lots of coffee.
At one point a woman actually went up and carefully inspected it's fine craftsmanship; touching it, rubbing along it's perfectly sanded edges to check for splinters, and looking all over and under it for a price tag. I laughed and laughed because I swear she wanted to buy it.
Even Chris Cokely, a Blue Genie who is notorious for being an excellent craftsman who takes wood working to the level of a fine art and who is very very picky, said my table was, "cute".
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