DIY Daddy's Girl

Sometimes you just feel like you gotta share parts of you that some might not know about.  I'm the eldest child, and was a daddy's girl, but not in the stereotypical way.  I was more the tomboy kind.  I wanted to do everything Dad did.  When we moved into our house in 1966, we needed to put on a new roof at some point.  I think I was like 14 years old, and there I would be, up on the roof, pounding nails with my dad.

My dad could fix, work on, figure out just about anything.  And make it work right again.  I inherited that part of him.  I also inherited my mom's dislike of being wasteful.  If something is still useful, she'll keep it and find a way to use it ... eventually.   Take that combination and it makes for a very .... different kind of gal in our society who likes to "use it once, throw it away, buy another if I need one again".

This is my new computer desk.  I repurposed an old entertainment center, utilizing the top as the desk, and cutting up the sides, putting it all together to make something that I can actually use.  My old desk was one of those cheap self-assembly kind from a BigBox store.  I'd taken it apart and reassembled it twice in the past.  It was 10+ years old, I think I got all the use I could get out of it.  I ended up buying an rolling file cabinet that slides right underneath, because having a desk without a drawer or two wouldn't work for me.  I added two shelves above the desk to hold computer speakers, a couple books and the usual loose items a desktop often collects.

That's me.  The fix-it gal.  There's always something I'm doing, taking apart, rebuilding.  My son's bed is a platform bed that my father built when we moved to Arizona.  But now that he's moved out, I needed the platform to fit a double bed, not a single.  So I disassembled, cut, refinagled, bought a new piece of wood for the top and reassembled it to work for me.  Then I bought industrial pipe and created a bookshelf.  Looks awesome, in my opinion!

For another project, I collected old pallets from my BigBox store, took them apart, picked out the neatest looking boards, did some staining, painting, a mix of different things and created a headboard as well.

Sometimes, I tell myself that it's time to STOP thinking up projects!  But I'm a DIY kind of person, and it doesn't seem to stop :)

so thanks, Dad, for teaching me how to be hands on, how to think outside the box, how to do something with what I have!!