Upholstered headboard...

Hi Everyone!  Happy Sunday!  I wanted to show you the headboard I upholstered for my niece.  She is started High School this year (WOW!) and has a kids bunkbed in her room that has the futon on the bottom and I've slept on it and it's not comfortable!  My parents are giving her the matress set from their guest room and getting a new one.  The only problem, no headboard or frame. 

That's where I come in.  Before I moved to the farm,  my grandfather had moved a bed into the large master bedroom that didn't have a headboard because he had to move their bedroom to the 1st floor after my grandmother fell down the stairs (I gave that set to my brother for his son's room).  So to correct the no headboard situation, he made one out of plywood.  When I moved in, I didn't have a headboard, so I took that headboard and upholstered it for my bed.  But I have since changed rooms and headboards.  But I didn't throw out that headboard, thinking I could recycle the plywood.  And I have a frame that I saved out in the grain bin.

So when I took my niece back-to-school shopping we picked up some chenelle fabric in lilac and I upholstered the headboard for her.

 The unfinished back side of the headboard.  I could have made it pretty on this side too, but didn't because the fabric cost 12.99/yard and it will be up next to the wall.  I think that's the most I've ever spent on fabric, but it coordinated with the fabric I used on her toy box/hope chest, just a shade darker.

She is a purple gal!  She loves purple!

So now my brother just has to haul it home and either attach it to the frame or hang it on the wall.  It's been fun having Vickie here, too bad it was not as much fun as last year since my mom was sick most of the time.  But I think Vickie won the jackpot by coming home with new bed and headboard!  Well, thanks for stopping by!

Summer visitors...

Hi Everyone!  It's time once again for visitors.  This time it's my brother's step-daughter Vickie!  My parents are meeting her and her family about 4 hours away so they can pick up Vickie.  She will be staying for a couple of weeks.  Last summer she came for a whole month but this year she's been detassalling corn and in two weeks she starts another job as a bus girl at her aunt's restaurant so her time here will be much shorter.

This picture was taken last year a couple of days after I got my dog Bo!

We are all Iowa Hawkeye fans so the whole family had their picture taken in Hawkeye gear.

This was taken a couple of Christmas' ago when we had so much snow on the ground that my brother had to come get me so we could have Christmas.

And this was taken last year at the farm.  Vickie is very much a girlie girl as my mom would say it.  And I'm very much a tom-boy.  So she won't be interested in being my helper in the wood shop the way the boys are when they come to visit.  But maybe I can get her interested in some other craft projects.  We'll see how it goes.  She will probably spend most of her time with my mom as they are both into shopping and clothes and nails.  But we'll have fun playing games.  Thanks for stopping by.