Scrabble Table Redux

October 17th, 2008

Could it be?!  Why yes, I did finish the scrabble table I was working on in this post. I finished it a while ago, actually, it just completely slipped my mind to make a post about it.  I ended up buying a fifteen dollar table from bed bath and beyond that was meant to be covered and used as a night stand.  Instead of covering it I coated it with the scrabble pieces from about seven games!  There are lots of words hidden in there, but don’t worry, none of them are dirty :) .

(if you’re interested in doing this, just get some wood glue to hold the pieces in place and then spray at least 3 coats of clear paint on top to seal it.)

On an unrelated note, I’ve been working on the shop and am really excited about it so far!  I’ll probably end up opening it back up some time in the next week. :) :) :)

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Scrabble Table Gone Bad

June 14th, 2008

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Ugh, so I’ve been all over ebay trying to find the best deals on scrabble tiles because we had this great idea to cover a table in them for our apartment. I finally found 500 of them for 40 dollars (which is actually a deal, as high as that is) and thought we’d be set.

I went to test them out on the table and to my horror this is what I saw

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After measuring it I saw that we’d have to spend at least another 80 dollars in tiles to cover the table! :( . So now we’re probably going to end up just making a couple of end tables (an end table only needed about 350 tiles).

Anyways, I figured I’d share the idea on here, if you’re willing to spend that kind of money! After the tiles have been glued down (spell out some words in there!) make sure you coat the table in resin so when you spill grape juice all over the table it won’t stain :) .

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