Wonderling

New Beginnings

I honestly thought this little guy was going to die on me (see how it's propped up by a bent paperclip. ha!), but suddenly he perked up and even sprouted a little friend! You can't see on the pic, but there are even more buds on the stem. 

It kind of makes me think of our lives. Things can get pretty rough, we can almost fade away, but - somehow - we pull through and end up with even more than we had before. Sometimes we're just left with little buds, but if we nuture those they will grow. 

I didn't intend this post to be so sappy, I acutally was just super excited to see the tiny friend growing. ha!

Weekend Projects

So this weekend I left the house only to pick up supplies at Home Depot. My mission: build a custom closet and paint, paint, paint!

The closet only took a couple of hours. I did have to do a lot of the cutting of the wood myself, otherwise it would have been a 30 min job I think. 

Unfortunately it's impossible to get a shot of the whole thing without taking the doors off and I was afraid if I took them off I wouldn't be able to get them back on. The shelves in the middle are IKEA and the rest is commercial grade particle board that I really should have taken the time to paint. It's not pretty, but it's so much better than the one, long, wobbly bar that was there before. Unfortunately my ceilings are low so the two bars on the left are a tad too close together, but again, a huge improvement. 

The painting I don't have pictures of yet because I haven't quite finished the bathroom yet, but I should have time for that this weekend.