\n Did you ever repurpose something you own that you did not know the value of, and it became priceless?<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n

Well, that is exactly what happened when I created my Heirloom Glamping Table to bring on camping trips in\u00a0my Casita.<\/p>\n

A little Padilly background information:<\/h3>\n

In addition to my passion for the subjects of this blog, I’m also into genealogy and have lots of vintage family photos, including many of my mother and her family taking road trips out west during the 1940s. These family photos do a wonderful job of capturing the time period, and all deal with outdoor travel activities.<\/p>\n

Then one day, it occurred to me, what better way to bring their memory with me on camping adventures than to make a table with all their photos glued on top!<\/strong><\/p>\n

But I couldn’t decide what table to use (I didn’t want to buy one), and then I remembered an old table in our attic; it was left there by the previous owners when we bought the\u00a0home.<\/p>\n

It was a PERFECT size, and the legs folded inside, making it easy to store and bring camping.<\/p>\n

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Creating my Heirloom Glamping Table<\/h3>\n

The previous owners left a table in our attic, so I used it to create my heirloom glamping table.<\/p>\n

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I then printed many of my family’s travel photos using my inkjet printer (from scanned originals).<\/p>\n

\nWith photos printed, I trimmed them with my pinking shears, added Mod Podge to each photo’s back, and randomly placed them on the top of the table.<\/p>\n

Once I completed that task, I took some alphabet stamps and started stamping words that reflected some of the images using white acrylic craft paint.<\/p>\n

Finally, once I was certain the pictures and paint were dry, I put a little Mod Podge on the top of each photo to seal and protect them from the varnish. \u00a0I then applied several coats of varnish to the top of the table to protect the photos and table from damage resulting from being outdoors.<\/p>\n

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Feedback<\/span><\/h4>\n

I was so happy with my heirloom glamping table results that I posted a picture of my new table on “Lou’s Glamping for Beginners<\/a>” to\u00a0receive\u00a0feedback. \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

As I hoped, I received\u00a0<\/strong>lots of praise…until one comment took me by surprise.<\/span> One woman didn’t comment on how wonderful she thought my table was but instead said that the table looked like a Singer Featherweight Folding Card Table and that they can be worth a lot of money (I also think she may not have liked that I repurposed this rare table, as there is now a reproduction market to meet demand).<\/p>\n

Since I had no idea what a Singer Featherweight Card Table was (which, if I did, I might not have modified it), I immediately went to eBay and discovered some of these tables are going for well over $200!<\/p>\n