Free Craft Table

Free! Free!! I hear the word free and I go running towards whatever it is! My company had the most glorious furniture giveaway yesterday! It was amazing! They have this warehouse full of old office furniture from old offices that have either been shut down or updated. I guess they were running out of room so they invited all their agents out to sift through it and take whatever we wanted. For. Free!!

Hardly anyone took advantage of this! Our company has hundreds and hundreds of agents in the triangle and I saw maybe 20 people there. More for me!!

I worked really hard to restrain myself and only bring home items that I knew we had a place for right now. And it was all office furniture so it wasn't like I was scoring couches and side chairs...it was more utilitarian. I ended up with two filing cabinets, three bulletin boards, two mail cubbies, and two adorable end tables. I'll show you more of my scores later but for now, look what I created with the mail cubbies!

It's a craft table for my craft room! A stand up, fabric cutting, gift wrapping, puzzle holding craft table! And it was all FREE!

So, remember when I found my office desk and we bought if off a friend? Well, they had an extra table top from the desk that they re-did and gave it to us for free. Then I went to this office giveaway yesterday and found these two mail cubbies that I was immediately drawn to. I think they will be the perfect fabric storage solution!! Right???

So we hauled them upstairs and set the top of the desk on top of them and Whabam!! Work surface!!

It's far from finished. The table top doesn't fit perfectly and right now it's just balancing on top so we need to secure it in place. Also, one of the mail cubbies is about an inch shorter then the other so we need to build the shorter one up. It also needs two stools because it's a bit taller then I realized it would be.  And you know I'm going to paint it a fun color because this is the crafty/get creative room and office brown is not going to cut it.  Plus it looks gigantic in the space so we're going to have to do some reorganization.

I'm just really excited though! It's going to be perfect and I totally have a vision for what I want it to look like. I'm juggling so many projects right now...I don't know how Derrick lives with me sometimes!