It's Sort Of a Toss Up

Whether or not this has been a good day or a bad day is kind of a toss up.

I spent yesterday and part of this morning working on furniture for the house.  I started with the wet sink.  I'd gotten the sink from Minimum World when it was on sale.  But I needed to build a base for it.  So I started with some newel posts and turned them upside down for legs.  Then cut boards to length and roughed them up to look hand cut.

I decided to make it in two levels, one slightly lower than the other, so the water from the pump would pour into the sink more easily.  I used Minwax Dark Walnut and Red Oak on the wood to give it some variation.

I made a shelf to go between the legs of the larger half of the sink for buckets and other things.  And glued the sink onto the smaller lower half.  Then I made a pipe out of a wooden dowel and aged the pump a little bit.

I want to rough up the lower edges of the rim around the legs, but so far I think it looks nicely primitive and Tudor.  What do you think?

I also stained the table for the kitchen.  Ended up using my craft knife to remove a lot of extra glue that wasn't noticeable before and re-stained it.  I used Minwax Red Oak on the table.

 I like how it looks, pretty dark but not the same as the walnut.

My next project was the small table for the still room/laboratory.  I popped the slats off the lower side boards and sanded the glue off as much as possible.  I sanded down the edges of the table top and the top of it so it would look more rough and have the appearance of wood grain.

Of course after all this work I forgot to take pictures with the camera.  So here are a couple with my cell phone.

The next project was the other slatted table for the still room/laboratory.  The one with the table top I didn't care for. Remember?

Well in order to get the top off the table I put it in the microwave.  Here it is now.

So I scraped and sanded the extra glue off the pieces and stained them with the red oak and dark walnut mix.  Then made a new tabletop out of roughed up wood lengths.  And glued everything back together.

I need to add the other two lower bars to the table.  I forgot to stain them.  So if I decide I really want them on the table I'll add them after the glue is dried on the rest of it.

After that I had to do the cat boxes and once I do those I like to vacuum.  Because as every cat owner/butler knows, cats scatter litter outside of the boxes in order to ward off the devil.

And I obviously had some sawdust and wood scraps that needed to be vacuumed up as well.

I got half way through this process and my vacuum cleaner died.  I took it apart and cleaned it out, but it doesn't work still.  So we have to buy a new vacuum cleaner.

In case you're curious, a vacuum cleaner that deals with hard floors and carpets and stands up to pet hair is not cheap.

So you tell me... does what I got done balance out against needing a new vacuum cleaner?

I hope everyone else's week is going better.