a table: finally finished!

it's friday again. and aren't you lucky? i've finally finished something!

finally, i finished painting our patio table to match the little side tables austin painted green last weekend. and boy, was it a lot of work. by far the hardest thing i've ever done. first, i had to deconstruct the whole table.

then i began to paint. my arm has never been so sore.

the hardest part, was reconstruction. it's always easy to take things apart, but ten times harder to put them back together, right? now, i could have made things a lot easier on myself by waiting for austin's help over the weekend, but no. i wanted to do this on my own. and besides, the neighbors saw me working on it, so i couldn't let them see the table beat me. but alas, after about two hours of cursing at the pieces patiently working step by step, the table finally came back together!

so here she is, in all her green glory, combined with our new patio chairs we got last weekend at home depot and the umbrella we grabbed at target {which conveniently match perfectly}.

i like the green table with the brown on the chairs. i didn't want a whole matchy-matchy set.

i even replaced the bolts with much better ones {ones that don't have to be removed twist by twist with a stupid pair of pliers. grrrr.}.

so there it is. we have a beautifully painted table, chairs, umbrella and side tables to enjoy many cookouts around this summer.

anyone want to come over?