We finally found a center piece....

The end of May SpitFire and I spent nine days exploring Florida....and finally stumbled on a centerpiece....after four years of looking....

Four years ago the boys and I spent a couple of months turning a pile of rough cut oak boards into our new dining table. Since then we have been looking and trying different things for a centerpiece. Last week in a Key West T-shirt/shell shop we found these blown glass bowls melted onto cypress stumps. I fell in love with it immediately (and spent a lot more than I should have to get it).


Once we got it home we filled it with "treasures" we picked up on the trip. I'm sorting pics to post on the trip.

The table.....







The centerpiece.....

Filled with treasures......

Full view......



Sea glass and shells from other adventures......

Beautiful table!
And the center piece is awesome!

Make them smaller and they will turn right
Beautiful table and center pieces!

Very nice on both!!

Dayum Jes that table is kick azz

That worked....much thanks!

We drove 3,800 miles in nine days driving around Florida.....I'm still sorting thru lots of pics to post the trip....

Each number is where we spent the night.....


The trips booty....

Man that table turned out great and the center piece looks good setting on it.

That is nice

Ya'll did great on that table Jess. I hope my wife never sees that.

Thanks everyone!

We spent months looking for a simple plank oak table to seat 10-12 and came up snake-eyes! Everything was too thin, too small, too gaudy, too bulky, or just outright hideous......so the boys and I spent a couple months making this one to fit our space.

Here is the thread from four years ago about building the table.....

I'd be happy to send you the plans and a full set of assemble pics......

Turned out great! Lots of lifetime memories wrapped up there!!

Very nice amigo. That turned out awesome

I still would have filled the jars with M & M's.

Peanut M&Ms was plan B......

Beautiful work !

awesome

Who knew Snake was so in touch with his feminine side??

A refined eye and talent are not necessarily gender specific.....so, I’ll just take that as a compliment....

I like to think I have the mind of an engineer with the eye of a designer.......

You can see how well the combination works on the fireplace I built too......

EPIC!!!!!!!!!

Looks nice

Could I get the name of the place you found it at? I love that look and would like to see if they have a website or something to base a search off for something similar.

Was looking for it... where did you post it?

Way cool conversation piece Jes!

Its in this picture....



These were the threads about making it....
Rock Star...
Fireplace....

Here is their web site and phone number....Shell World on Key Largo....


Shell World link....

They had several of them...some smaller and some larger than the one we got. The had one that was on a log about 6' tall with three bowls molded to it.....it was really nice but I couldn't figure where I would put it.....Wish I had taken pics of them....Give them a call and see what info you can get about who make them.

Feel free to PM me if you have more questions......