Lovely Weeds: The "Famous" Potting Table

Do you know who Ana White is?

You should. Go pay her a visit when you're done with me, because she rocks. At the start of my building/fixing/making-things-pretty life change, I bought her book, The Handmade Home, and it truly changed my perspective on what I am capable of doing. I had known I wanted to create beautiful things for my home and was driven to do it, but I had no idea where to start. Ana has a knack for explaining guy things in a way that a girl can understand! She's a hero and I'm not afraid to say it.

So imagine scrolling through your hero's Pinterest boards and finding this:

I don't know what you would do, but I'll tell you what I did... I gasped. There may have been a bit of delighted screeching. And a call or two to Mom and Mom in Law (and two or twelve more people). Why the excitement? Because I built that, and she thought it was an interesting enough brag post to re-pin. If you're me, that's a very big deal.

Rewinding about a month...

Coming off my shutter high, I had lots of scraps and I was itching to use them! This bad boy came together as a hybrid of two different plans so that I could use up the leftovers. I had also wanted to try the white base/stained tops trend and figured, what the hey.

I pretty much made it up as I went along, using Inspiration 1 and Inspiration 2 as my guides. I put my pocket holes on the wrong side of one of the boards. And I used oil-based poly-urethane on my white latex paint - it's yellowing... but I don't care! It was my first piece of furniture and it's a good reminder of how far I've come. I love it enough that I'm thinking of bringing it inside to use in a narrow space in our master bedroom!