Sweat, blood, and tears

Yeah!! My parents came to visit and I quickly put them to work! Thank you to my mom and dad!

This past several days my mom and I slaved over preparing Evan bedroom. I thought refinishing a childhood dresser couldn't be that difficult right?  I read all kinds of bloggers ideas how to paint furniture, tips and tricks. I want to get a good start stripping the paint and prepping before it got too cold around here.  Here is the before photos:

 It was in pretty good shape, some nics and scratches and again according to several bloggers it is just as simple as 1. . .2. . 3 and taa daa!  Okay not so easy! It took forever to strip the paint, as you can imagine the less toxic the stripper the less helpful it is.  After at least a week and many near-freezing hours spent in the garage here is his almost complete dresser.  We really liked the grey honeycomb design on one of the Ty Pennington fabrics I am using for Evan's bed linens.  My mom is so creative she whipped up a stencil we used to replicate the pattern.

 Found some fun drawer knobs and have a few more small details to finish but I really wanted to brag on my mom!

We also worked a few other projects:

  Bed Skirt and two different crib sheets

Painted side table for the rocker or play table for Evan

  I didn't actually build anything but I did take it apart and paint it!

Before: Step Stool

After

After Side Panel: My attempt at Evan's Korean name: JaeHyeong

unfortunate news

We received some unwelcome news, our wait just got a bit longer. instead of the 10 months they had thought when we started it will now be closer to 14 months. So we are looking at February or March.

I am trying to motivate myself that it gives us longer to earn more vacation time away and save more $$ for the big trip to Korea!

I have a whole list of things I want to get done around the house before he comes home, one of which is painting his room and making all the bed linens. Thank you Ty Pennington for the inspiration!