This is why I shouldn't leave my sewing machine...

So MONTHS and MONTHS ago I had asked a certain someone to build me a bag tree of sorts for my craft fairs. Well I am doing one this coming Saturday the 22nd and needless to say it never got made. I envision it to be white, with all my bags neatly hung. Makes the whole area look much more professional.

So I drove myself to Lowe's (even though I like Tony Stewart better but Home Depot is further down the road) to purchase the supplies I needed to make them myself. I was going to get a plain 4 x 4 but the shortest I could get was 6ft. I asked the kind gentleman at the counter if he could cut that for me and he said he couldn't because it didn't fit in the machine. So with a look of frustration on my face I am sure, the nice man says, why don't you try something like this. Brings me over to some railings for lack of a better word. He tells me to go get a 2 x 4 and he will cut it to what I need. I was so psyched that this might actually work that I bought two, one for each side of the table.

So I take it home, and bring it to the basement. Start by trying to put a screw into one of the longer pieces of the 2 x 4 to attach the feet. Well the drill won't push the screw through and I get it stuck. So I say to myself "okay, I guess we will use a hammer and nails". I started working from the other side of the same piece of wood, the nail goes halfway in and it gets all bent and mangled. So I walk away and try the other one. Low and behold this one went together smoothly.

I start drilling holes for dowels, and the drill dies. So now it is going to be hours before I can continue working, I decided at that point I will just wait until the next day when the kids are in for their nap.

I finish drilling the holes, go cut the dowels, and realize that when I hang the bags on the pegs where I put them I am not happy. So I say to myself "okay I can make it work I will just use this one for smaller pieces." I go outside scouring the woodpile for a piece of wood that will replace the one I messed up yesterday. Find the wood, and again have a hard time getting the nails in. So then the light bulb in my brain goes off and I drill pilot holes for the nails to go into. How easy did that make things. Oh my if I had only did that yesterday I wouldn't be having so much problems. I decided that I was going to put one of the dowel on the top finial piece of the post that way I have more room to play with.

Once they are both assembled I am getting ready to paint, feeling pretty good at this point too mind you. I open the paint, mix the paint, start painting the backside of one post. Yeah the paint doesn't coat the wood!

So instead of having elegant white looking bag trees, I have two posts with dowels sticking out and will have to cover the bottom with some fabric I have around here. This is why folks, I will never ever leave my sewing machine again.