Fix Wood Furniture!

So....yes, it's been quite a while since I last posted. If you are a teacher, you'd totally understand. It is the end of 3rd quarter, and things get somewhat hectic around this time of year. My class has also been working on writing a book in groups of 3 from beginning to end. This takes the WHOLE quarter because it is so involved. When they are finished we make colored copies for them and ship the original off to Scholastic. Scholastic holds a contest every year called the Scholastic Kids Are Authors Contest. Kids in groups of 3 or more make a book and all the artwork and submit it to Scholastic. They then pick one winner in each category and actually publish the book! The book gets sold in Scholastic Book Fairs around the US! So exciting and fun, but also very exhausting. The stories my kids wrote this year are SO good. I know I'm a little biased, but I've got some very good authors in my class this year! We had an 8th grade English class come to help us final edit our papers and several of them were amazed that the stories were written by second graders! Fingers crossed, we hear back in about a month and a half.

Other than that I HAD to share this cool trick with all of you. One night for dinner we had garlic bread. A piece of bread was on a paper towel on the kitchen table. When I cleaned off the table after dinner, I noticed that there was an awful spot on the table that had been ruined by the gralic bread:

As you can see, it's in the perfect shape of a piece of bread.

So, one day I was browsing on Pinterest and saw a cool trick. It said to use a hairdryer and point it directly at the ruined spot. It would get rid of any spots on wood furniture. I was VERY skeptical to say the least. It couldn't be that easy to get rid of this spot on the table, but I tried it anyway. Jeff walked by and gave me the funniest look while I was trying this. To my amazement IT WORKED! Yes, the spot is now gone:

Pintrest also said that this would also work on cup rings that have ruined wooden furniture. I think it has something to do with the varnish being heated and moving around. However it works, it fixed our kitchen table. Thank goodness!

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