Let's start with this table. About 2 months before we got married, Mark & I were on a walk around his parents' neighborhood and we saw a perfectly good coffee table at the edge of someone's driveway with a FREE sign on it. Well, we were only a few blocks away, so we took turns carrying the thing back to the Houx's. I should mention that the legs and borders of this table were painted brown. Not stained, no, acrylic paint. That is so 90's! So, we needed to stain it. We started, back in August of 2008, to make this table ours. For reasons beyond my control, the table moved with us to Ohio in 9+ pieces. It stayed in our garage over winter and the borders, made of particle board, soaked up the puddles of water our sweet garage very generously offered. Fine. I didn't want it for summer time anyway...
Then I started to Make it Happen!
One night after we were house hunting this past month, I mentioned to Mark that I would rather not move with a 9-piece table again. Some pinewood, edging material, about 6 coats of Walnut Satin Finish Polystain, and lots of glue-filled nights later, we've got a coffee table!! It's only been a year. Oh dear.
Friday, August 21, 2009
The Coffee Table
Let's start with this table. About 2 months before we got married, Mark & I were on a walk around his parents' neighborhood and we saw a perfectly good coffee table at the edge of someone's driveway with a FREE sign on it. Well, we were only a few blocks away, so we took turns carrying the thing back to the Houx's. I should mention that the legs and borders of this table were painted brown. Not stained, no, acrylic paint. That is so 90's! So, we needed to stain it. We started, back in August of 2008, to make this table ours. For reasons beyond my control, the table moved with us to Ohio in 9+ pieces. It stayed in our garage over winter and the borders, made of particle board, soaked up the puddles of water our sweet garage very generously offered. Fine. I didn't want it for summer time anyway...
Then I started to Make it Happen!
One night after we were house hunting this past month, I mentioned to Mark that I would rather not move with a 9-piece table again. Some pinewood, edging material, about 6 coats of Walnut Satin Finish Polystain, and lots of glue-filled nights later, we've got a coffee table!! It's only been a year. Oh dear.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Welcome
I suppose I should start with an explanation for the title: Making it happen. It's what we're doing and what we're figuring out how to do. We see something we desire, "Let's go make it happen." and so you can say this blog is how Mark and Molly Houx are Making It Happen.
Such things will include the trip to the vet for Little Lily (our almost 5-month old cat) to get spayed, the many adventures of buying a house (which we are now officially in the process of), remodeling, working, gardening, and many wonderful un-expectations which we are sure will arrive in their due times.
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