Julie Puts Together a Table (and other adventures)

went to Ikea yesterday and bought a light blue side table for $7.99. great deal. great table. my only real plan for today was to put the table together. and i thought, 'why not invite my blog friends along for the adventure?!' so, here we go. let's put together a table.....

JULIE PUTS TOGETHER A TABLE:


the table. still in the packaging. it was called 'LACK.' Swedish for table?


table out of the plastic. table top. 4 legs. 4 screws.


instructions.



figured out the instructions!!! twisting the leg onto the top. did it work????



it worked!!!!! one leg = ON!!!



attempting a second!!



TWO LEGS!!



there was something about seeing a two-legged table that i did not like. it was kind of unsettling.



here was the whole process. this is what the screws looked like. that was the hole in the table top.





hole for the screw in the table leg.




twist it down.....



three legged table!!!!



four legs!!!!



voila!!! a four legged, light blue side table.



and it works!!! effectively serves it's purpose as a table. coffee cup, flowers, tissues.



looks great.

and the whole thing took less time than it took for me to make breakfast this morning. here's how i know this. i listened to the same itunes playlist while doing both things. started from the same point, Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus, (don't judge me, please), and when i finished making breakfast, the song playing was When Did Your Heart Go Missing by Rooney. when i finished making the table, the song playing was Wandering Around by Coconut Records, which, in my itunes shuffle, came right before the Rooney song.

less time than to make your breakfast!!! and all i did was make coffee and frozen waffles!!!! what a great selling point.

so, in the spirit of having an adventure, i thought i would take the time to share with you some other adventures i have been on this summer. please enjoy!


JULIE AND KARA TAKE A ROAD TRIP UP ROUTE ONE TO BATH, MAINE




here we are driving through Kennebunk. we started to look for Walker's Point, where the Bush family lives. so, i google mapped "walkers point kennebunkport, maine" on kara's cell phone. but then i had this vision that an alert system would go off in the FBI/CIA headquarters anytime someone google mapped that. so, i quickly stopped because i didn't want to be gunned down by a sniper.



so, we continued on our journey.



entering Saco, Maine. Maria and i used to change the words of the 'Rent' song "Santa Fe" to "Saco, Maine." i can't remember why we used to do this. but, it was funny at the time. i was happy to learn that Saco recycles.



this was a sight to behold. A TIM'S!!!!! SO CLOSE TO OUR HOUSE!!!!! this was a complete surprise. right on route 1!! in Scarborough, i think. if we hadn't just stopped for coffee drinks, we would have stopped. now that i think about it, WHY didn't we stop for TimBits!!?!? AND - a Tim Horton's in the same building as a COLDSTONE!!?? are they owned by the same company?! who thought of this genius idea?!?



heading north.



route 88 is the way to go. there are some NICE houses on that road. it was a slight last minute detour from route 1, but worth it.



and then we reached Bath!!! i can't remember how long it took to get there. longer because we took route 1 than if we had taken the highway.



and you get off the exit, and there is all this beautiful art on the cement posts holding up the highway!!! it made me like Bath immediately. also, because Bath is called "The City of Ships." and i want to be a ship captain.



we followed the signs for Bath Iron Works and just past it, there was this little park with a very nice dock. we parked and explored.




a pirate ship. don't worry, it was a fake one. i think this was in the children's museum? so little children can pretend they are terrorizing the waters of maine. great. where was this? an art museum?



view of Bath Iron Works from the dock



Kara found her initials carved into a wooden bench. we couldn't figure out who was in love with her. NF. do you know him?




view of the dock from the park bench.



driving through downtown Bath. NOT Diagon Alley. kara and i were like, "wait a sec, are we heading to Gringotts?!"



Kennebec River.



heading back home.



it was a nice evening road trip to Bath. quite unplanned. i came home from hanging out with Andrew that morning/early afternoon and Kara said, "let's have a sister adventure!!" and so we did. i couldn't quite believe how many trees there were. especially on the dock. it was like a thick wall of trees on the other side of the river. maine has a lot of trees. all i could think of was, "man there must be a lot of deer in those trees."

what's that you say? you want more adventures???!!?!!!! LET'S GO!!!!!!


JULIE DYES SOME T-SHIRTS PINK AND YELLOW



white t-shirts. the kind you buy in a pack of like, 5. i chose the v-neck variety.



poured the package of dye into the water. put the shirt into the water. let it boil about 30 minutes. easy breezy.



voila! pink shirts!!!



repeat for yellow.



yellow shirts!!!! what a great deal.


JULIE MAKES KEY-LIME PIE IN A CHOCOLATE CRUST




end result. it was delish. very limey.



JULIE CLEANS OUT HER RECYCLING CLOSET


much like Saco, Maine, i also recycle. however, i had gotten into this method of throwing it into a closet in my kitchen and then never taking it out. it was getting kind of annoying. it was one of those deals where i would open the door to the closet, things would fall out, i would throw them to the back and quickly shut the door. repeat. repeat.

so one night, i decided to clean it out. here we go:






BAM. look at those empty boxes!!! amazing. i ended up with five huge heavy duty bags full of recycling.


AND NOW, to end our adventure segment, i would like to bring things full circle by leaving you with a current photo of the table:



Ruby Tuesday loves it! and you can kind of see how she's already started tearing up the cardboard box with the instructions printed on it. look how great the table looks on that rug!! i was going to put it in my bedroom, but now i might leave it in my living room. that's my living room, by the way. and through that doorway is the front room with the giant brick column in the middle.

okay! thanks for coming with me on all those adventures again. it's been really fun. hope you enjoyed it.

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okay. i have a headache and i've been sneezy and stuffy all day. the sun just set. it looks like it's getting windy. maybe it will snow. probably not.

anyways! love you, readers. i'll talk to you again soon.


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