Slackin..

Well..it looks like this is going to most likely end up like my twitter account- inactive. I just can't figure it out. Everyone has such pretty blogs and I have your joe schmoe of one. Oh well maybe some day.

Last night I stained wood for the first time. Let me start off with saying I am the worst painter in the world. But this I could do. I googled and googled how to do this but let me tell you this is pretty easy. I didn't have to sand the wood very much because I was talked into buying stain grade wood ($$$- I'm an easy sell lol) so that was nice. After the first coat the can said to wait 4-6 hours between coats but I have the  patience of a 2 year old. So I once again went back to google and someone said just wait 10 minutes and go for the second coat. So I did- and well it turned out just fine. So anyone else out there staining for the first time I can let you know if you too have the patience of a small child my project turned out okay. I did wait a whole night before I used the clear top coat. 

Anywho- now on to the bragging. This is the first big pinterest project I have taken on. We already had a Kitchen Island we bought from Target. Here's me putting it together back in November.

Well after some time we realized our itty bitty kitchen needed some more counter space. So insert Pinterest which led me to this http://www.curbly.com/users/capreek/posts/13399-before-after-a-diy-kitchen-island-makeover. They took a average kitchen island and turned it into this! Beautiful. And I thought- hey maybe I could do that!

 So here is my attempt! I didn't use a butcher block (which in hindsight probably would have cost me the same in the long run) Instead I took 5 stain grade pine and rigged up my own countertop. (Also a pinterest DIY post) http://www.myrepurposedlife.net/2010/11/diy-kitchen-island-top.html <-- It must have been there lucky day because they got wood for 50 cents and it cost me $20! Sigh..

 Here is my pre-stain beauty..

And here is post stain... (still wet I should add)

I clearly need to take a better picture. But I was really proud of this thing I couldn't wait to post it. Casey and I did a fine job if I can say so myself. Now time to paint the Kitchen cabinets white (Yikes) And hopefully talk Casey into letting me take off that ugly backsplash! (He hates me I'm sure of it)