Thread Table Topper

I've been spending a lot of time lately redoing my sewing room for spring.  A redo in my book always needs to include a little reorganizing and reusing. 

I wanted more white in my sewing room, so I stole this table from another room.  At first, I put a plant on it and it looked pretty good.

But as part of the redo, I got distracted by my thread which was hidden out of sight in two small dresser drawers - one for cool colors, and one for warm.  I was hoping to consolidate them down to one, but they didn't fit.  I didn't want to put them back in the same drawers - what fun would that be? 

Then I remembered this wooden shadow box that my husband made many years ago.  For awhile I displayed some of my little purses in it, but I tired of that long ago, and it's been sitting, idle, in the basement.  With its shallow depth, I knew it would be just right for thread.

This time around I arranged by type (metallic, rayon, cotton) and spool size.

Once all the thread was in there, I realized it had to be stored horizontally, to make it easy to grab a spool.  But with limited space, where to put it?  That's when I moved the plant off the table and put this on it instead.

On an episode of HGTV's White Room Challenge last week, a contestant pressed live flowers under a piece of Plexiglas to make a table top.  My husband remembered we had two sheets of tempered glass, leftover from a fireplace we used to have, in the basement.  He brought them up, and they fit good.  Now it's perfectly functional as a table top.

You can see there's some empty area in one of the slots. 

This seemed like the perfect thing to set on top of the empty spot, especially since I was nearing the end of my redo and hadn't yet found a spot for it.

It worked especially well since this table sits next to my rocking chair.  When I'm not in it, guess who is?