Hello!

Here I am trying to get into this blogging thing.  I want to use this blog to capture us starting our family so we can later reflect and laugh :)  I am attempting to type with one hand since I have a 2 month old baby girl and trying to boob feed-still trying to figure out the parenting thing! 

Words of advice, do not have a newborn and try to sell your house at the same time!! We had a showing within 2 days of coming home from the hospital and a showing about every week! Anyways, house still is on the market and we're thinking of just renting out our house.  Hopefully, we will be in our new house by late spring/early summer.  We were not planing on selling but last June our renter, (who lived with us for about 2 years) shot himself in our 2 bedroom house.... long story short- our home is no longer our home.  We are selling it for what we owe due to the market....we will be taking a huge loss with all the fees attached.  So, we really just want to rent it out!!

Alright, here is our first project for her nursery!

We bought this dresser off of craiglist list for $40:

It had some gold plastic framing and some fancy looking handle....

So, I took a screwdriver and pried off the frames and unscrewed the handles! 

The dresser was pretty old and several, most of the old nails snapped off when taking off the gold plastic trim.  Not cool.

I had to take some pliers and try to take them off.  Those little buggers were stubborn.  I eventually gave up and had my husband help. 

I was 9 months pregnant at the time so I had to wear a mask when stripping off all the paint.  Felt pretty hardcore. 

The top of the dresser was covered with a thin piece of lament that was too hard to take off.  We decided to just take off the top and put a new piece on.  Off to Menards we went to get some wood.  Here it is all trimmed up and ready for some stain!

I think he did pretty good job! 

First coat of stain on!

Almost done!  Got several more coats of stain on the top and bottom painted heritage white, just need to find some handles.  Handles were the hardest part, we could not find the right handles with the proper distance between the holes. 

We finally decided to just cover up the existing holes and drill new ones with handles to cover the old.  Well, here it is!  Can't wait to move to put it in a nursery.