Elephant Table ~ Good Will Find

[Two Much]

I scour good will and yard sales for stuff that I can use in
woodworking such as costume jewelry, furniture pulls and knobs
and whatever... I saw this guy at my favorite good will store...
he had a broken toe, broken husks, a crack in his head and was
dirty and lonely, I adopted the little guy for 2.50 and the costume
jewelry pin for 50 cents. We made him a new toe, and new husks
and polished him up with furniture polish.
He now graces a little table, that we built around him in all recycled
wood that was once Church pew kneelers.

It lights up the wall unit at night, and that is a good thing as the
wall unit on the other side has a light on a little table and it always
bothered me that the light was unbalanced.

I wanted to use poplar like the wall units, (made in 2003) however, in the testing of
the stain color -- the oak appears darker in the corner and it looked good,
and besides it was free and that's always a good thing.
I also tried to mirror the top of the table to the top of the wall unit.

[Two Much]

The lamp I already had, I just hit it with the same gold paint that I
used on the table top. This is the wall unit top that I tried to
use as inspiration for the table top.

[Bill in Buena Park]

Joann, very cool little table, and the little elephant is a great find and excellent conversation piece.

[cwsmith]

Very nice.

Now if I had only seen that last year, I could have sent you the elephant lamps that we had. They were dark jade green with gold painted bases. Near the top, like handles on an urn, there were two elephant heads. One would have looked good on top of that table, although I really do like the lamp that you have.

BTW, I really like that display cabinet.

CWS

[Two Much]

Thanks Bill He was the perfect ornament for a Bombay style table. He also happens
to be an Asian Elephant.

CW you got rid of two elephant lamps. Too bad I could have made something
from them. I would have made two and sent you back one.
Remember the commercial where the lady brings the faucett to the
architect and say's "make me a house around this" I know
where she is coming from.

These court jester things I found at a yard sale, they were four for a dollar each.
We made two cabinets for the living room and a cabinet in the family room
to enhance them.