Sunday, February 25, 2007

Of Wood and Screwdrivers

My lack of blogging is due to an incredibly busy schedule, along with my most recent task ... building an armoire! You see....I've not had a closet in the last 16 years. Our house was built before the wheel was discovered I think (and surprisingly my dad was NOT the builder!) and they did not have closets back then. They only had 2 sets of clothes back then and those just got hung on pegs in the wall.


This was quite interesting to put together. You can see that the whole unit is almost as wide as the room I built it in.....so that made for a fun time trying to screw the end pieces together. I think this thing weighs like 2,000 lbs!!! Shhhhh, don't tell my chiropractor I picked it up (w/my mom's help), she would kill me!!!
I guess I'm just proud of the fact that I was able to complete it, with only a few blooper moments that were quickly fixed (ie, hung the door inside out --- Oops!) In the end everything squared up nicely! :D :) Now it's time to fill ' er up! ha ha That won't take much I'm sure.
As a side note ... I think Savannah find a new place to hide during our games of Hide-and-Seek. :)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh, I'm sooooooooooooooo proud of you, Miss Jessica!!! Looks lovely and I think you did a super job. Of course you put the door on wrong, that's how you learn and gives you something to laugh about. Keep up the good work, I might hire you for something besides driving!! Right now we could use an electrician. :) WooWoo thinks he knows the problem (with the help of Chuck's son-in-law) so is supposed to back to the attic tomorrow. We'll see. Watch that back when you are doing carpentry.

Love ya,
Miss Daisy

Adele said...

Looks good!

~JESSI~ said...

IS THAT WHAT I THINK IT IS???? DIDN"T WE DESTROY A WHITE ONE OF THOSE ONCE UPON A TIME????

Anonymous said...

Hi Jessica, so glad to see that old people arn't the only one to make mistakes when they but these thing together. I did a computor desk and it took me four days, today I put together a small DVD holder and put the back on wrong, I'll just spray paint the inside black. Grandma Barb