Pinterest Picnic

Last weekend was the annual Town-wide Garage Sales...not sure of that's worthy of proper noun status, but anyway... One of the treasures I found was a Little Tikes picnic table for (wait for it!) three dollars!! They are $49 - I looked it up. I had seen an awesome picnic table makeover on Pinterest (http://pinterest.com/pin/119486196336356246/)  and thought this little guy would be a good outdoor seating and eating option for Beckett and his buddies who come over to play. 

Here's how it started:

The first step was to disassemble the parts. Easy-Peasy. They just snapped apart:

Next, I got out the fabric I had purchased last summer to make his playroom bunting.

Gotta love coordination! (I told Shonn it was going to match the playroom and he laughed with an eye roll. Mars and Venus!) Anyway, I "measured" and cut the tabletop piece first. 

I should mention that the Pinterest tutorial suggests spray painting the legs to coordinate. I am not a craft perfectionist and I plan to use this outside where the paint would likely chip off, so I just made sure the fabric matched the legs' existing color. Saved a step! 

Then, I stapled the fabric to the tabletop, followed by the vinyl. (I got the vinyl at Walmart for $3 per yard. There were several options, but this one said "for picnic tables" on it. Well thank you very much, vinyl makers!) 

I repeated the process for the legs, in a coordinating fabric. 

Remember how I said I'm not a craft perfectionist? Well, the corners are HARD to wrap smoothly. Through trial and error,  I ended up wrapping each piece like a present, but it doesn't look perfect by any means. (Oh well!) I did figure out that the less vinyl on the corners, the easier it was to "wrap".

Lastly, I snapped the table back together and placed it outside. Not bad for a $3 table, $6 worth of vinyl, 4 lines of staples, and one blister! The whole project took about an hour. 

Now we are ready for our first picnic party on Thursday!