Phase One Complete!

Frodo knows how I feel. Okay, not really. I’m not actually done. But Phase one is complete! Yesterday, I did my final touch ups with the spray paint and bleached the bed slats where I thought they had mold on them. I’m not actually sure it was mold, but I bleached the shit out them…

Commence Phase One

This weekend, Marley and I started to work on Phase One of the bunk bed project. This more or less consisted of removing the cat hair from the bed. We started by taking the whole thing apart, counting and cataloging the hardware. I had a lot of help. Then we moved on to washing each…

THE PLAN

Wishing, and hoping, and thinking, and praying, planning and dreaming… This is the fun part. Now, I know this sounds stupid because I sub-titled my blog “Adventures in Pintrestland”, but Pinterest is really not my thing. My main time-suck sites are Zillow and Amazon. But I have been crafty before and made a few boards for…

Craigslist is for suckers

I got my IKEA Kura bed. Awesome. Kind of. It was a bit of an ordeal to get the bed. First, I had to find it used in my area because the closest IKEA is 285 miles away. You CAN order it online, but the delivery charge makes the attractive low price of the bed…

Long story long; the bunk beds saga

I had an image in my mind of the bunk bed I wanted my boys to have. My family was a bit incredulous at the idea, we have three bedrooms, why didn’t we put the boys in their own rooms? I learned the hard way that it was important to my introverted husband to have…

As if I have time for this…

Why write this blog? Well, officially, because my Mom Friends asked for progress pictures and it seemed easier to post them in one place. Personally, I want to write this as a long form version of so many projects I see on Pintrest because I see these amazing pictures, read a two paragraph “how I did this” post…