Grown Up Nightstands

For some reason, we've never had nightstands.  We've had many a faux nightstand over the year ranging from just metal garage style shelves to convenient window sills to wall shelves (that constantly hung loose and fell down.)  When we moved into this house, we used this little matching set of tables we bought from IKEA many, many moons ago.

Not very pleasing to look at and lacking in storage space. One frustrating day, I realized that we're actual adults (not graduate sudents anymore) and we could actually just get some nightstands. Seriously, though. It did not occur to me that we could actually just fix this problem with furniture. Like, for years. Anyway. The search began. Then the search ended because I couldn't find anything I liked. Finally, I bought these un-finished numbers from IKEA.

I filled all the screw holes and some of the grooves between the wood.

Then I began painting. And painting. And painting.

Because purple paint requires one million coats. I stained the drawers to match some of the other woodwork in the house.

And I painted a simple design on the front of each drawer.

I added some spare knobs we had around the house.

Here they are in their new homes! Much more tidy and stylish looking. Plus, now we can actually put our bedside stuff away!

Imagine that!

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Xmas Cabin in the Woods

Over Xmas break this year, we decided to take the doggos on a little cabin adventure.

Even though she's scared silly of other dogs and strangers, Molly actually loves a road trip. She was so excited to go that as soon as her crate was loaded into the car, she stationed herself there to make sure she did not get left behind.

Once we arrived, it didn't take the dogs too long to settle into their new surrounds.

They liked this spot especially because the cabin was right on this beautiful little creek.

Norman loves him some creek fun.

There were tons of woods to explore and not explore near the cabin.

There was even a little bit of snow. But, like, in the parking lot of a restaurant.

Plus, there was lots to do inside as well.

There was even a whole, IDK, mind map(?) wall about D.B. Cooper. So that was totally normal.

I became OBSESSED with these little rings over trees games.



Also, we brought Dutch Blitz with us and played tons of rounds.



We had such fun that we might even make this a Xmas tradition.

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