Susan Cooper reading The Shortest Day
This week's Spoonflower contest is for a monochromatic winter scene toile design. My design below is based on remembrances of Christmas Revels past. Hope you can take time to vote for designs you like.
Friday, December 12, 2014
Christmas Celebrations
When I first went to Boston to visit my husband's family, it was during winter break between college semesters. They took me to see Christmas Revels and I absolutely loved the show. The Revels is a series of vignettes celebrating folk customs around winter for the current theme. No matter the theme there are always certain elements, Morris Dancers, a mystery play with St George and the dragon, the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, a dance with the audience and a lovely poem by Susan Cooper, The Shortest Day. Christmas Revels and other seasonal shows run in several US cities. You can find your closest Revels here and further links for a taste of the Revels.
This week's Spoonflower contest is for a monochromatic winter scene toile design. My design below is based on remembrances of Christmas Revels past. Hope you can take time to vote for designs you like.
This week's Spoonflower contest is for a monochromatic winter scene toile design. My design below is based on remembrances of Christmas Revels past. Hope you can take time to vote for designs you like.
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Bunkbed Remake
The boys have had bunkbeds since my middle child moved out of the baby bed. Now that we are entering tween territory we needed separate beds. I really didn't want to buy new beds so I plotted a way to reuse the bunk bed.
My husband and I had discussed making this bunk into two separate beds when we were disassembling the bed in Dakar. So we went ahead and measured the height of the cornerposts for a new bed and marked them for each bunk.
The bed below was designed for my oldest son (my middle child's headboard is not yet finished.) He wanted that flat, modern headboard which really is the easiest thing in the world to do. I purchased a nicely veneered piece of plywood at the hardware store and had them cut the bunkbed posts down at our premeasured marks. After, we sanded the whole thing and wiped it down.
By now you probably have guessed my love of the Krylon spray paints and I do love the 2 in 1 paint plus primer paints but this bed was made of untreated wood so I really felt I needed a base coat. We used a spray on primer followed by the hammered textured spray on paint in black. I think the reflective properties of the paint make it look like a charcoal grey instead but that works as well. Following painting we reassembled the bed and attached the headboard in front of the headboard corner posts.
My son is pretty happy with his bed. See how it compares to the MALM bed on the IKEA site which is the bed he wanted. I think we spent about $30 total on paint and the plywood, not bad for a 'new' bed.
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| Here is the original IKEA MYDAL bunk bed |
My husband and I had discussed making this bunk into two separate beds when we were disassembling the bed in Dakar. So we went ahead and measured the height of the cornerposts for a new bed and marked them for each bunk.
The bed below was designed for my oldest son (my middle child's headboard is not yet finished.) He wanted that flat, modern headboard which really is the easiest thing in the world to do. I purchased a nicely veneered piece of plywood at the hardware store and had them cut the bunkbed posts down at our premeasured marks. After, we sanded the whole thing and wiped it down.
By now you probably have guessed my love of the Krylon spray paints and I do love the 2 in 1 paint plus primer paints but this bed was made of untreated wood so I really felt I needed a base coat. We used a spray on primer followed by the hammered textured spray on paint in black. I think the reflective properties of the paint make it look like a charcoal grey instead but that works as well. Following painting we reassembled the bed and attached the headboard in front of the headboard corner posts.
My son is pretty happy with his bed. See how it compares to the MALM bed on the IKEA site which is the bed he wanted. I think we spent about $30 total on paint and the plywood, not bad for a 'new' bed.
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