Silver Swirl

This nightstand did not have much shape to it, so it could have gone two ways.  It could have been a more boy style kitchen or I could totally girl it up.  I opted to go completely girly.  It was one of the few times I got a kitchen completed and felt like it was REALLY missing something.  Something big.  I was up against a weekend of Birds of  Feather Vintage Market being open and took it over anyway.  Once I got it in its place I was even more unhappy with it.  So the pictures you see at home are those that show it as I took it in.  I went in this afternoon and redid the backsplash.  I will get more pictures of the kitchen as a whole tomorrow, but I wanted to get out of the way so the ladies could go home :-).

The updated backsplash.  Much happier!

Crib Easel

I snagged this crib from my sister's garage over Christmas.  It is a drop side crib, therefore not going to be used as a sleeping place for my new, adorable little nephew.  I was helping them out really, by clearing the space in the garage, doing a good deed as it were ;-)  Immediately I knew the ends would become an easel, but the details still had to be worked out.  A few trips to home depot and a few days of rummaging through my stash of stuff and it all came together.  I took a poll from our friends on Facebook and a few of them mentioned leaving the backside open which I really liked.  I did not want to do a chalkboard on one side and a white board on the other.  Ikea and Melissa & Doug have perfected those easels already.  I wanted it to be different.  So I considered cork, thinking it would be a great way to display children's art work, or if a store buys it, to display ads or specials.  The thought of push pins and littles did cross my mind as a bad idea.  A mom suggested mounting clothes pins.  Good idea, but I wasn't sure now sturdy, long term they would be.  So I opted for knobs with string (that can be replaced as need be with ease) and tiny clothes pins.  What do you think?