$35 wardrobe.

We bought this Ikea cabinet in the As Is section for $35.  It's missing the doors & the clothes rail (& the little feet but we don't need those anyway). I thought it'd be super easy to get a new rail & since we needed more closet storage, it was a deal too good to pass by for only $35!

Turns out it wasn't easy to find a replacement clothes rail. I emailed Ikea & they don't sell a replacement rail because it doesn't have an item number. So we searched online & found something similar but it was $20 & maybe wouldn't even work. We looked at local hardware stores & couldn't really find anything that would do. Of course we could have just drilled new holes & hung any regular old clothes rail but since there are no doors on our wardrobe, I didn't want 14 different holes visible.

Last week we went to Ikea again & while we were there thought we'd check out their wardrobes. We wrote down the item numbers of a couple different wardrobes that used similar clothes rails & crossed our fingers that they would be available for purchase separately. Luckily for us, one of the wardrobes had almost the exact rail that we needed sold separately for $10. It was a little bit long so we trimmed it with the saw.

& this week, finally got it mounted in our wardrobe...

a week in the life.

No photos yet.
This is the first year I've participated in AE's event. Unsure yet as to what kind of album I'll be making. Right now I just want to document the daily things before I forget them.

Sunday. Up early, plant new flowers, fix Sheila's rock wall flower bed. Spray weeds after a quick trip to Rural King to buy weed killer & a spray pump. Pull weeds from sidewalk all the way down Markland & in front of the office. Then little cousin's baseball game at 2pm. Home at 8pm. 2 mile run, felt pretty good.
Monday. Chiropractor visit #2. My first appointment was Friday & I was super sore Friday & most of Saturday. Sunday I felt good. Monday he told me I am going to heal quickly & he will only need to work on me a couple more times. I didn't crack as much this time as the first time (not sure if that's good or bad) & I wasn't as sore afterwards (definitely good) so I think this is working! Then I worked 3-11pm. A pretty uneventful night. Went for a run after work at about 11:45. Jogged down Markland & back. Tripped while admiring a dress in the consignment shop & almost face planted. Luckily the boy grabbed my arm just before my face hit the sidewalk. Then we laughed so hard I could barely finish the run.
Tuesday. I worked 3pm-7am. Was a pretty good night. After work went to mom's to sleep for a few hours before going to the lake.
Wednesday. Wake up at 1pm & head to the lake with mom. Boat not working properly. Come back home. The boy's making apple crisp for a birthday surprise. Vacuum. Applebees with mom & brother for dinner.

living room shades.

Desperately needed blinds for the 4 living room windows. They face the west (one faces south) & the sun sets so fiercely in the evenings. Also, we live on Main Street & are sick of people at the stop lights being able to see in the windows at night (we live in an upstairs apartment). I ordered a shade of red (after going through several samples) from Steve's that are top down/bottom up pleated. We still want to let light in from above, we just don't want the neighbors/every person driving by to be able to see in. We measured & double measured... but I made a mistake/didn't read the directions carefully enough. So we weren't able to hang them correctly. Rather than $364 going out the window, he jimmy rigged them. You can't really tell & they're doing well so far. We're hoping to see an improvement on the electric bill!

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using the Artful Delight March 2011 kit
posted online at Scrapbook Examiner 7/3/11

bathroom cabinet re-do.

When the boy asked me to move in with him [May 2011], I knew we needed to add some storage to the bathroom. I have a ton of beauty junk that was not going to fit in his bare minimum bachelor pad bathroom. I found a cabinet I liked (& brought him to peek at it too, he liked it almost as much as I did) at a local antique store. I paid under $200.

I brought it home & was determined to make this a quick, no sweat, no pain project. No sanding. No priming. Just find some grey paint to match the bathroom, a quick coat, & be done. Well, it took two coats. But then I was pretty much done.

We found some coordinating knobs at Menards. & here's what she looks like in the bathroom now [July 2011]!