March 29, 2010

• I threw a fit… and fell in it.

  I’d like to tell you a tale of a headboard.  A lovely headboard.

  In December, right before the movers came and starting packing up our life… I found Knock off Wood and fell deeply, & passionately in love w/ the idea of a headboard. 

  A real headboard.

  Not the 1980s thing we bought from friends that was basically a huge box to store crap in that we attached to our bed.

  I sent my man an email w/ KoW’s plan, then I found another incredible idea using kitchen cabinet fronts.  I would have loved either one.

  My man said he would have it done by March.  As Feb rolled by and the end was nearing… no headboard.  No plans laid out, no preparation, no wood piled high in the garage waiting his capable hands.  Quiet panic ensued.

  Apparently BY MARCH (ie, Feb 28th *to me*) and BY MARCH (ie, March 30 *to him*) are NOT the same.  Potato / Patato.
   
  Then, he went shopping. 

  And brought home this lovely little number.

  

  I pitched a fit.

  And fell in.

  It wasn’t pretty.  I’d like to say it was.  I’d like to say I was flexible enough to find the beauty in this $40 piece of junk from the 70s, but I couldn’t.  I tried.  I took photos, I ‘painted’ it white in my photo editing program, turned it sideways, put my bed ‘in front’ of it.  Gag-o-la.

  Apparently my man ‘got the hint’ because yesterday he installed the most gorgeous piece of furniture I’ve ever seen – my very own headboard!  Made by him.  Ahhhh… it can’t get much better than that.

  

  As for the fit throwing, God’s still working on me…

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