Peri's Shelves Part 2

We finished! Peri's shelves have been painted and moved to her room, where they have done loads already to keep her room clean and tidy. We have a couple baskets to put in place still, and I'll probably end up moving a few things around later, but for now it is just so nice! Here is a picture!

It matches Peri's changing table!

I just sort of realized that those colors are more suited to boy people, but I like them so I'm not sure  that I care. I guess if we ever have a boy we'll be all set. I asked Peri what she thought about them, and she gave me this look...

She looks like her cousin Michelle.

Promptly followed by this look, so I guess she likes them!

And also like her daddy.

 And now it's on to more awesome projects. Gary's getting ready to cut the bed arches out this weekend, if the weather's good. So excited! After they're cut, assembly is going to go pretty quickly, and then it's just sand and stain and we'll be sitting in a new bed frame! Yay!

Peri's New Trick

Peri learned a new trick today. Naomi sent me a picture of Peri having pulled herself to a standing position in her crib. She went from sitting to standing; as soon as she can figure out how to go from lying to sitting, she'll be unstoppable.

After I came home and we had dinner, we put Peri in her crib and watched her do it again. She stayed standing and walked herself along the crib perimeter. She was also feeling chatty tonight, so I captured some of that as well.

Peri is getting stronger. She'll be crawling at any time, and as shown in the video, she'll get walking down at about the same time.

Moss Wreath

I made something cool for my St. Patrick's Day decorations! The full mantel decoration isn't finished yet, but I really like this wreath I made!

Sorry for the bad light, it isn't very bright out today, on account of the rainy windy storm outside. It's pretty crazy. Anyways! Gary is so nice to me, he's let me get a few things to make decorations for my new desire to decorate for all the various holidays that come up. Nothing fancy, but it's nice to have a little reminder around the house, and it's something I can change often. I like change!

Basically I just got a wreath form from Michael's  and hot glued moss to it until it was covered. It actually still has some bald spots if you look at it from the right angles, and I'll fix that when I get time to do the rest of the
decorations I have planned. For the flowers, I stole picked up some paint swatches (you know those papers that help you choose your paint color), cut out petals and leaves, and glued them together with a glue stick. I hot glued a button in the middle and then hot glued them to the wreath. The ribbon is from my ribbon stash.

While we were at Joann's I found some pretty ceramic Celtic crosses that I think will go well for the St. Patty's Day theme. Currently they hang on the wall like this:

I got a few things from the dollar store and have an idea or two of what I want to do on the mantle ledge with them, and hopefully it will turn out nicely. I'm also going to make a mantel banner/garland to go with. And I'll have more pictures when everything is done!

I really like this wreath, and plan on keeping it up through Easter, and perhaps Mother's Day as well. It makes a good Spring wreath in general. I love it!

Planned Furniture

I love Saturdays! Gary was able to sand down Peri's shelves this morning and now it is halfway primed and sitting in our kitchen. It would be all the way primed, except that Peri needed my attention. Now Gary is outside cutting boards for our bed frame and getting the pieces ready to be assembled. We've got to wait on our drum sanding kit to come along so we can do the arches, but I don't think Gary will get to that point until next week anyway, and by that time our kit will hopefully have come.

What is this about arches you say? (At least in my mind you do.) Well, since we got the sketch up of the bed finished last night, I'll show you what our plans are for our bed.

Tada! Gary likes to color the wood and things. We've also got all the stuff we need for the headboard, and the fabric we chose for it is somewhat similar to that design. Both our box spring and our mattress are nestled into that frame. We're excited to not have our mattress scoot around and our pillows fall behind the mattress. And no more bed skirts!

The other thing I just finished on Sketch Up is the dresser I want to build (or rather have Gary build). We probably won't have the time or money to do this one for a while, but when we do get it done, it will replace two pieces of furniture and fit in the space of one. It is rather tall, but I really don't mind. I'm not cool like Gary, so I don't color anything. It's easier for me to see that way. So y'all will just have to be okay with boring white.

Now theoretically there should be enough room in that empty space for Gary's computer that we like to keep on his dresser in our room. Someday we might not have a computer in the room, but when that day comes, I'm sure we'll find something to do with that big space. The drawer fronts are going to beveled (is that the right word?) so the edges won't be so sharp and blocky. We're still not even close to deciding what kind of drawer pulls we want, but I was thinking perhaps something like this:

or like this:

In any case, I think I like the look of Satin Nickel. We're staining our wood ebony, so I think it'll look really pretty. Any opinions as to which looks better?