free shelf is done!

Ahhh...my free shelf.

Rescued from the dumpster.

Been sitting in my garage

all summer, slowly coming

to life.

Here's the before:

Wow. That's ugly.

 It's all about potential people.

 You can see the other

hideous photos here.

And the after:

Ta dah!

I love it.

We I cleaned it, sanded it, removed

a bijillion nails, filled the holes,

added bead board to the back,

added crown mold and

finally caulked and painted it.

(Mark did the back and the molding)

It took me a while because,

I would just work on it when

the kids were busy and/or napping.

I know that sounds like a lot of work,

but HELLO it WAS FREE!

And, in my opinion, worth all

the work.

It is lovely.

Still working on decorating it.

Check out tomorrow for a tour of Emma's room.

And later this week,

another GW project done!