My Valentine Table for the Castle Shed

A few days before Valentine's Day I had my glass of wine out in the shed working on the paper mache chandelier and thought I would ask hubby to make me a new table that is similar to the little one in the shed that he made.

I'm ok with not receiving jewelry, flowers or candy for Valentine's day. I would rather have something he makes, a painting or this year a table!

Here he is dismantling an old box that came from a farm, I wanted the sides for the table top.

Dirt and rusty nails all over the place.

The under side of table top.

Final assembly.

Now in place and we had a full moon peaking through the bare branches over the castle shed. All the lighting is solar.

Then it was my job to paint it, I wanted the base to have a creamy whitewashed look.

Now in place I have another honey-do. "Honey, it needs benches or chairs that fit the scene and now that the coldest part of the year is over the flagstone is looking bad, needs a good scrubbing."

".... and after that we need to set the stones in mortar around the base of the shed, we didn't get to that last year."

It's always something. ;)

Scrubbing Potatoes at the Castle Shed

Is that potatoes my guy is scrubbing? We've spent a couple of busy days at the castle shed. While he was scrubbing I was painting our second table and more chairs.

Oh, they are not potatoes! For now the rocks are just arranged abound the base. Later we will set them in mortar.

We're having a small group of friends on Friday so we've been planning the seating for nine. I had hubby bring out the eight foot top we use over our dining room table. Usually I cover it with a table cloth but decided for a casual outdoor dinner I didn't want to use a table cloth. Here it is with a primer coat.

 By the end of the painting session I was turning green.

That's a bright green table! Not sure if it will stay that way but for now I do like it. Will do a reveal in the next post.