I'm sure this is a common problem: You take all your newly clean and lovely smelling clothes out of the washing machine to find that the "washing machine has eaten some socks".  So your odd sock(s) go in the sock drawer.  More odd socks are found and they too go in the drawer.  So after a few months, there appears only to be a few pairs of socks and a dozen odd socks.

I am fed up with an odd sock drawer, rather than a sock drawer.  So I made a Lost Sock Post.  I cut a piece of wood to size and painted on my sign, if like me and at the age of 24 you can't stay in the lines you've drawn use a black marker to go around the edge of your letters to hide that fact that you've made the letters messy with paint...opps.  I then painted some pegs and nailed them on the wood.  To hang it on the wall I drilled in two holes, threaded some string through and tied to so branch that I found in the garden to secure it - easy as that.  Here lost socks can be pinned up by the washing machine, until their counter part turns up.  If the Lost Sock post becomes full and no counter parts can be found then it would have been confirmed.....the washing machine does eat all our socks!

In our garden we have a corner plant space.  This built in plant box has convenient corners which are perfect for sitting on.....but alas there was nowhere to put your drink whilst sitting in the sun.  So off I trotted to B&Q, picked up some banister wood and some decking.  Cut the banister wood in half and took off the annoying sloped ends, sanded them down and nailed them onto my decking.....bazinga - table!

After discovering how to make chalkboard paint, I couldn't help myself make more things with it!  I decided "personalisable dining set".
I got myself some thin-ish wood and traced some existing coasters and placemats.  After cutting out the shapes, I made my chalkboard paint (see here on how to make it) and painted and slated each board.  I made a set of six, with coaster and placemat matching.
You can write guests names on the coaster/placemat - no excuse for some one else drinking your drink....or you drinking someone else's drink.  You could also create different themes for dinner by adding a chalk design on each mat....although I can foresee insults being sent across the table via placemat.