Tornado Table

     The next piece I decided to make was a kitchen table.

    

     Because of the bay windows on my dollhouse, I needed a round table to have room for the doll family. I looked all through the house for something round to put as the top that was proportionate in the space. Finally I found the lid to a Christmas container in my room (don't ask). It was red and had snowflakes on it, but I coated it in three layers of leftover cream wall paint. Now you can't see the bright red through it at all.

    

     The hardest part was finding the base. I rifled through every one's stuff to try and find anything that might work. My back-up pan was an empty thread spindle, but it didn't look very good. While I was lying on the middle of my bedroom floor in despair, I noticed a bag full of wooden coins I had on my dresser. I don't now why in the world I had them, or what I ever would have used them for, but I have decided that maybe keeping random stuff in case I "need it later" isn't so bad after all.

    

     After I found the coins, I tried to put them in a stack that wasn't just a plain tower. This is what I came up with:



Upright view of base



Upside down view of base



     I call this a "Tornado Table". The coins are in a spiraling pattern that looks like a spiral staircase, or a tornado. I thought about staining the wood, but I decided I like the way the natural wood looks.

    

     I was going to make a table cloth to cover the giant cavern encircling the top of the table, but I have decided that the table looks better that way. A little "vintage chic", if you will.

     Or at least that's what I'm saying.

     We will ignore my multiple failed attempts at a round table cloth.

     Unless I burst into tears.

     Again.

     ..........

    

     Anyway, that's the end of this. Some random facts:

• I went crazy with the glue gun, as you can see by all the glue stuck to the base.
• I just winged it with the pattern, gluing as I went., which is why it is a little crooked.
• I don't really think it looks "vintage chic" at all.
• My family lied to me and said they loved it.
• I made up a story for my doll family about how they acquired it.
• The story involves rich hillbillies, starving lobster farmers, and goodhearted pirates.
• I think every family needs one hideous piece of furniture.