I'm not sure if I have mentioned how crafty my whole family is. I know I've told you all about my mom and her master seamstress skills. She was recently elected the president of her local quilting guild. W00T! My dad is a true renaissance man. He can do anything, and I'm not just saying that because he's my daddy. As far as I can remember anything I needed he was able to make. I had the greatest school projects because he would help me build the most awesome things.
Moving forward, I had been sending my mom random links to things I wanted for my house for Christmas and my birthday. I desperately needed a pot rack so I sent her this link she said she would see what she could do. I knew my dad did iron work and thought he could make it for me. He said that it would be awhile because he would have to order the components to weld. Christmas came around and I didn't get a pot rack. I was a little bummed. But I figured he would get around to it at some point. Truthfully, I kind of forgot about it until he brought it into my house today...
Is it not a perfect reproduction? And I can guarantee this thing is going to be way higher quality than the one they could have purchased. And my dad made it entirely by hand. He bent the curly parts and the S hooks by hand. No, they aren't perfect but that is what craft is all about and I LOVE IT!
I also sent my mom a link to the Hensvik bookcases from IKEA. We were all set to buy two of them for me for Christmas and found out that IKEA has a minimum carrier and handling fee of $265 for Oklahoma. We briefly talked about driving to Dallas to pick them up, then my mom suggested we get my uncle to build them for us. My uncle is really great at wood work. He has built many well crafted items for my parents so I knew he could do what I wanted.
At the family Christmas gathering I told him what i wanted and showed him pictures. I told him it would be awesome if he could make a matching headboard as well. I drew a picture of what I wanted it to look at. A few weeks later he came over for some measurements and scaled up the drawings. Today he brought it all over and installed it.
We won't discuss how many holes were put in my walls from trying to find studs (yes there was even a stud finder involved) and miss measuring. My dad is the cowboy on the left, if anyone wanted to know.
My uncle was really worried about the arches that I wanted. He had never done anything like that. He said it took forever for him to figure out how to do them, but I think he did a great job. What do you think?
Don't you love how Bella hopped on the bed as soon as I made it to take this picture? She's such a photo whore!
I'm so ready to unpack books tonight! I need to go pick up some kind of window treatment as well. I'm thinking balloon shade, but that might be too many conflicting curves. Any suggestions?