Yes, I built a bed!!!

SO I still haven't figured out that when you upload pictures they upload in reverse, so here is the end product with little Savannah showing off her new bed. I feel like Sheerah! I LOVE IT!!! And it feels so good to create and build things from scratch. The other great thing about this is that the head board can double as a twin head board and if we ever have a boy, I can just make a different pillow sham and comforter in green or blue to go with the brown and white stripes.

Here I am with my power shirt on upholstering the bed.

Here are the pieces of fabric that I tore into long strips and then sewed together because the stores didn't have exactly what I wanted. I wanted Brown and white stripes...thick stripes. So I had to sew it myself. This project took about 2 hours. I did it while Jason and I watched a movie on Friday night.

Then, Saturday morning I started around noon and was finished by 7. It would have been earlier, but I ran out of screws and had to go to home depot. This is a picture of my workspace. All the wood and screws ....etc. only cost me $29. I built the base first, then the head board, then upholstered the whole thing, and then screwed it together in Savannah's room.

Jason... once again, when I asked him what he thought when the bed was all done said, "I told you, you should just buy a toddler bed. you spent like all day doing that." I was livid to say the least. I am bound and determined to continue to build things and do more and more projects with the absolution that he will one day be trained and know how to say the right thing. (This is definitely not from a lack of training on my part.....it's kind of like potty training)---one day it will just click to him that when I say, with much excitement and enthusiasm,"What do you think?" whether it be about how I look, something I've cleaned, Something I've built, etc.... "your line is...."----ANYTHING POSITIVE!!!! Tell me what you really think later if you don't like my reaction to the positive one, but really? Why tell me that it would have been less trouble for me had I just bought one?.....SOME DAY- he's got an eternity to figure it out, and I have an eternity to learn patience---I like to think I get a little better most days.