Having the savings allowed us to quickly feel comfortable transitioning into having me stay home and putting my time into building my business (this blog!).

You have to laugh at yourself sometimes.Or all the time..

It looks like something you would draw in third grade when you’re trying to make your friend giggle and think you’re cool.So I guess that’s where my sense of humor is right now!Stuck in the third grade.. Just don’t tattle on me to the teacher for saying the word “butt”!Let me just tell you, there are so many good reasons for me not to decorate my dining room at all this Fall.. -The floors look really bad next to my nice old rescued wood floors in the front hall.

And that makes me a little crazy.. -The walls are still a weird turquoisy color that I just can’t really like no matter how hard I try, but there’s no point in painting until we re-drywall the whole room.And that may not happen for… I don’t know… another five years?

And that makes me a little crazy.. -I broke the office-style tile ceiling in the summer when I was trying to hang a big lantern from it so it droops, but it doesn’t really matter because the whole ceiling needs to come out, be raised up to original height and be re-done.

And that makes me a little crazy..You can kind of see the sad and saggy cream colored bed skirt in this picture, although I tried to keep it out.. Now, one route is of course to make your own and figure it out that way, but I found a store-bought skirt that I loved and I was determined to make it work!

It ended up being fairly easy once I figured out my plan of attack.Here’s how you do it if you ever find yourself in a similar predicament:.

Here are the slats that make the base of the bed and that the mattress sits on top of.There are two sets just like this that run side-by-side.