It's been a little over a year since we first made our faux marble dining table, and I thought you guys might be interested in how it's held up.....the good and the bad.
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First, I would say that we are extremely happy with how it's held up in terms of everyday life wear and tear. The girls love art and and this is where they color crayons and paint, and all of those normal life messes come up easily. It also does't scratch easily. 

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The problem that we faced was early on. I had read that for any "holes" in the glaze coating we could just add clear nail polish. This was a huge mistake as it yellowed fairly quickly, and we have had yellow edges around our table for some time. We also had an issue with the edges of the table being sticky (it's difficult getting the glaze around this area) and I had read that rubbing alcohol would help- I decided to try nail polish remover (because it's what I had on hand), and this also was a big mistake. Rubbing alcohol would have worked beautifully for the sticky edges (and did in the end), but the nail polish remover made some more yellowing damage as well as removing some portions of the glaze. 

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While none of these areas of the table were obvious unless you studied the table, it still really bothered us. And considering the only issues we have had with the table were due to "DIY error" rather than the actual table not holding up, we decided to make another one and did so last weekend. Fifty dollars later, and I'm so glad we did! It looks beautiful, there's no yellowing, and it was fairly easy since we have done this whole thing once before.  Here's what the new table looks like in our dining room:

It's difficult to tell in pictures, but most people think it's a marble table that we purchased from Crate & Barrel.