Two out of three spool tables

Okay so I was gonna wait 'til I finished all three tables (from the spools) but I'm still trying to figure out exactly how I want the third one to be.
So here they are!
First, the tiny, citrus-y green one.

I've always been in love with colorful doilies so I finally had something to do with these two (they used to just be pinned up on a door frame in my old apartment). I've had the red fringe trim for a while but wasn't sure what to do with it. I am officially obsessed with fringe trim. I NEED MORE. I'm almost out. :(
This one is really really small because the area next to the couch is a walkway from the front door, but we needed a table there. So it had to be a very specific size. Luckily, this spool was that size.

Just right!!

Then we have a larger spool used to make a bedside table! Yay for slowly getting rid of the boxes-as-furniture look!

Okay so I know this one looks the same green color as the tiny table... but it isn't. It's actually a wonderful sunny yellow, my camera was just being a jackass. I'd painted it yellow, wanted to use the red trim, but needed something else. I had that curtain stuff, but it was a hideous off white color and had some weird stains. So I used some black dye a friend gave me and dove into my first attempt at dying. Seemed to do well! I then noticed those playing cards from some days ago and hey! They matched! So I glued those down flat. The screws sticking out the top needed to be highlighted so it wouldn't look like I was trying to hide them. I dug through my flat-backed gems and found red, white, and purple in the sizes I needed. I was thinking red, then maybe white, but didn't want it so matchy matchy. AFB was actually the one that suggested the purple. Huzzah for input! The black needed some sprucing so I dug out some giant purple gems and stuck those on the dips so that it'd hang right and Be Fancy. Totally looks like a fortune teller's table.

Close up of the top!

I'm wicked in love with both of these in a mad crazy kind of way. I'm thinking of going a different direction with the last one though... I'm almost out of fringe and have other plans for the bottom of the last. I can go a little more experimental since it'll be my nest-side table (why bed down when you can nest?). AFB seemed to be hinting at wanting this one, so...

Cozy Toes

One fact of life that I've noticed in my years of moving from place to place that has held true across state and cultural lines is this... If a boy lived here first there will be a towel for a bath mat.

Go home towel, you are drunk.

Gentlemen? This is a towel. Used for drying things. It is not a mat. Have you ever washed a towel that'd been soaking up water on the floor for a few weeks? Gross.

This, on the other hand, IS a bathmat. What, you don't see it? Okay let's break it down.

 Strips of t-shirt hem I had left over hotglued on to keep it all together.

Some of that weird no-slide rubber netting you put in your cabinet to keep your glasses in place.

Then...

Voila. Bathmat. That doesn't stink. The furriness hugs your toes like an army of tiny mice forming a sock around your foot. It's delicious. It makes you wanna go pee all the time just so you have an excuse to stand on it.