Teamwork!

Every once in awhile I come across a project that I want to do and Reed jumps in is forced to help me out.

This was one of those projects.

I've been wanting a shelf for my living room for awhile but I didn't want to spend the money to buy one and if I was going to make it, it had to be super easy or it wouldn't get finished.

Confession: I sometimes think I'm more awesome than I really am and take on projects I can't figure out.

But I found this shelf here.

It has awesome instructions and it really wasn't hard at all.
We did tweek it a little.
We didn't put the trim on the bottom and I think we used smaller crown molding then they used.

Reed and I are seriously beginners at this type of stuff so I'm sure you can do it too.

We hung it up and I LOVE IT!!!!

The pictures of my cute kids don't hurt either.

I don't have all of my pictures yet and I'm going to paint some of the frames but I'm pretty impressed with me and my hubby.
Now I need to come up with a saying to put across the bottom in vinyl.
I've got some ideas but I'm not sure yet.
Feel free to give me some imput!
Now excuse me I have to get back to looking at my shelf :)

Wowza...

The last few days have been craziness.

I've been trying to recoup from Reed and I being sick

and now the kids are 

sick and

cranky and

whiny and

the list goes on.

But I'm sure you know all too well how it is.

On a good note

Reed and I celebrated our 6th anniversary yesterday.

I'm so glad my naive, crazy 18 year old self was smart enough to know we were meant to be together.

It has been a wonderful 6 years full of 

happiness and forgiveness

hard work and lots of play

excitement and trial

but mostly 

FULL OF LOVE

I'm so lucky he's my man.

Now for a quick little project.

I asked my mother in law to get me this vinyl for Christmas.

And of course she came through.

(Sorry I didn't take the time to rotate it)

So I found some scrap wood in the barn and cut it down to size.

Then I painted it a beige I had left from Braeden's room.

I let that dry then watered down some blue paint I had.

I brushed that on in a few spots then wiped it off with a rag.

Sorry I forgot to take pictures of all this.

After that dried I sanded it to death with 220 grit sandpaper.

This is what it looked like after all that.

Can you kinda see???

Then I put on the vinyl.

Can I just say I LOVE it!

The only thing I would do differently would be to water down the beige paint so more of the natural wood was showing through.  Or you could sand it before you add the blue paint.

It feels so good when you finally finish a project.