Anika's Desk and this Weekend

So we finally got the desk in Anika's room! She is sooooo proud of it and she is so happy to have it! Now we just gotta organize her room a little more and her room will be done.
I have pics but they aren't the best. Once her room is done we will take some better ones.
So the desk is an old door and post we had from the girl's old bunk bed. Everything together cost about $14 or less to make. We had to actually cut the door down on both the width and the length because it looked too big in the room at the size it was. We put shelves up above(still need one more on top), we have a cork board to hang up in front, Anika wants a pink lamp or desk light, and then we just gotta get a chair for the desk. She is using a stool now from the kitchen but it is a little too tall, but we may cut it and then paint it white if we can't find anything else we like.


Nathaniel also finished repainting the huge old metal bookcase we bought. He had to take it all apart, clean it, and get rid of some of the rust. He actually had to file off a few of the bolts because they were so rusted. I didn't think of taking before pics so the only ones I have are after it is already apart. We finished painting it and just put it together last night. I will take some photos and upload them later.













We finally got around to taking pictures to put on the holiday cards and I actually did the layout and ordered the cards all on the same day:O So I will be sending those out in a few days but in the mean time here is one of the pictures we took!