My Craft Desk Project

Here is how I turned this cluttered, uninspiring mess:

Into this:

First of all let me give a shout out to my bro Jay who made this possible. I actually stopped scrapbooking a few years ago because all of my stuff was jammed into boxes and crates and to start a project I had to drag what I needed out to the kitchen table and then drag it all back when I was done for the day even if I wasn't done with what I was working on. Talk about uninspiring.

What's cool about Jay's garage is he has so many awesome tools that made putting this table together fun (that's my opinion, may be different if you ask Jay).

A nice sturdy worktable and saw (Hi Jay!):

A biscuit machine....honestly, I had never heard of or seen one before but it makes these slits and you slide the "biscuits" along with a little wood glue to firmly adhere the wood pieces together. If you look closely you can see the little biscuits in the center of the table:

The table was so wide that we had to clamp the clamps to another set of clamps:

And then there was the power nailer! Did I say "power nailer" ???

 And one very important ingredient....

Then we must make pretty edges with the router:

With the moulding and router we get this:

And after sanding, 2 coats of primer, 2 coats of paint, 2 coats of lacquer, along with lots more sanding in between, we have the preciousssss:

Now that I have my mess sorted and stored, I realize that.......I need more stuff!!!