My New Bed

Josh and I actually finished this bed before Elijah was born, but I've yet to blog about it. I love it it adds a whole new perspective to my bedroom. I used barn wood collected from my dad's house and plans from ana-white.com. Love her blog she has all sorts of plans for the DIYer so anyway here it is.

 Before. How our bed had been for atlest the last three years of our married life. We did at one point have a metal frame underneath our smaller bed, but when we bought the bigger one, the frame didn't fit.

 We cheated and ran the boards through the planer so that we could take some of the rough off, but leave a the color. I really didn't want splinters in my back. We used a black milk paint for the trim and a satin water base varnish for extra protection and the slight shine.

 

The best thing about it is we did it for less than 150 dollars and Josh did it in two evenings and I did the paint. The only project we have ever finished in less than a week. Thanks Ana-white.com

December

Well now that December is gone, I have a spare minute to update things.

 

We blessed Elijah Grant Werner in Liberty Lake, Wa the first Sunday of December. It was nice to have Josh's family attend.

Jesse got married on the 18th of December. I went down the week before to make the cake. I wouldn't have been able to get it done without the extra hands to help with Eli and the cake too.

 

The pictures are a little more forgiving than seeing it in person, but for the first wedding cake I've ever made it turned out pretty good. It is all cake, three layers of it. Red velvet and white with raspberry and fudge filling. A cake like this one all Styrofoam would cost about 700 dollars.  It didn't cost me 1/7th of that for the supplies. It was kind of stressful to do, I mean nobody wants an ugly wedding cake, but I might consider doing another one, in a few years when I don't have a fussy newborn. :) I learned quite a bit as one always does on a first try. over all it was a fun learning experience. I wasn't sad to see it be eaten though.

I'll post more pictures when I get them. Ella was an adorable ring bearer, met her first love who she danced with the entire time. Wyatt was quite the little break dancer the star of the show. I was glad I could be there.

Christmas was good this year, we stayed up here as Josh couldn't get off work to go down south with me we didn't want to leave him a lone for the holidays. I hope everyone has a wonderful 2011.