Twin Storage Bed

 Can you believe we finally finished the bed? Hooray!
And hooray that she loves it and is sleeping in it just as well as she did with her crib!
Double hooray for the storage under the bed. Right now we're only using one side because we have to push it against the wall while she learns not to fall out of bed, but eventually there will be enough room for 6 of these bins on each side! Woot!

 My little girl loves her letter "E" for her name, so I added that on using my Silhouette and cheap vinyl from Roberts (only $1.99/ft plus you can use your 40% off coupon, so it's way cheap!)

Thanks to Ana White for the plans and to JCPenney for the cute bedding! I love it. Oh, and the storage bins were from Target. Yea!

Out with the old, in with the new-- ish

A couple weeks ago it was sunny (though not exactly warm) and I decided to finish up some projects. I've wanted to repaint these things since I changed my familly room/kitchen last fall and I was happy to have the weather cooperate.

(Let's not talk about how I thought my kids were also cooperating by playing nicely inside while I painted, but when I came in I discovered they had used markers to paint my blinds. Grr. No more markers at this house.)

So, here's the line-up: one chair I bought for 50 cents at a yard sale, one magnet board my MIL gave me 6 years ago, and one calendar holder I got at our ward's Big Give last year. Speaking of which, the next one is scheduled for May 14 and I am pumped! I love going through other people's junk!

 I used spray paint on the chair and it was easy peasy. But I had a can of white paint laying around, so I used that on the two boards. It took forever for the paint to dry, plus I had to do about 5 coats because I was covering up the black paint underneath.
I just got a Silhouette and used that to cut out some vinyl for the magnet board. I love it!

 Our family tradition is to buy a magnet for every trip we go on. My husband, who is really the sentimental one around here, has grand visions of 50 years from now when we have an entire wall devoted to all our vacation magnets. He's cute like that.

 Here's a picture without my shadow  blocking the view. I lack photo skills.

 Here's the calendar holder. This is my favorite because of the way the black paint underneath kind of showed up when I shabbied up the edges.

How cute is that!
I'm glad to cross one more thing off my to-do list. There's still about ninety seven thousand more.

At Last!

 At long last, my dresser/sideboard redo is finished! I bought it clear back in November and it has been tormenting me ever since! Mostly because I was too busy to paint it and the previous color was a variation of Yuck.

For this project, I actually sanded the whole thing down and painted it with Behr Black Kettle. I know, I usually do spray paint, but I already had the black so I went with that.

Then I sanded down the edges to give it a worn look. I used a sanding block, which costs about $5 at Lowe's. It was nice because I could get into the crevices on the doors, which thing could not be done with my Mouse electric sander.
After sanding, I stained the entire thing and coated it in polyurethane. You can read more about that here.

The other problem was the doors. If you look closely, there's kind of a rectangular checkerboard pattern going on there. I thought of filling it in with wood filler, but thought it would take too long. I also considered covering them with beadboard, but the reality is that I live at least 30 minutes from anywhere that sells beadboard and I was feeling too impatient.

So I just flipped the doors around and painted what was previously the backside and is now the front side. Slick, eh?

New handles on the doors and a coat of spray paint on the pulls for the drawers and it was finished. Woot! One resolution down, forty five million to go!

Lastly, I want to shout for joy that this clock is finally on the wall. I bought it for ten bucks at a yard sale in July and it has been leaning against my bedroom wall ever since. Hallelujah for getting that taken care of as well!