I am a big goober and have loaded these photos in backwards! So, I am going to start the story at the bottom, thus you will need to begin reading at the bottom and work your way up! :)
The
toybox is almost complete. The dragonflies are just lying there. Only one of them is being added, along with small wooden letters that spell her name. I just got the letters and haven't painted them yet. The other 2 dragonflies are being turned into bookends. If you look closely, she has 2 ladybug bookends on the top shelf of her bookcase. I painted the bugs and
Gramps made the ends to attach to them.
Here is the bookcase all set up and in use. Filled with board books, piggy bank and teddy bears. Oh, and my I pod docking station on the top, as we use it for her music/
CD player. I pulled out all of the board books from the closet, all of the ones that she can't really hurt when she becomes more mobile in the very near future! We have plenty of room to grow!! (Ruth, see "Natalie" on the bottom shelf?? And Dave & Mary, there is "Ellie" the elephant that you gave to Emma on the top shelf.)
Again, we asked him to sign it for posterity. Dad has such a doctor looking scrawl!
We asked both grandpas to sign their piece. I wanted to make sure that Emma always knew who made it and when. Not a piece to be gotten rid of when she outgrows it, but a piece to be saved for her kids someday!
The bookcase being painted. Dad did a nice job building it. It has routed grooves that run along the top front facing and the lower facing.
I gave Martin choices of colors between white, pale green, pale pink or the dark chocolate stain of her furniture. He chose the pale green. So, we bought paint and went to work painting them to match. Painting that
beadboard on the
toybox was a pain! And Martin doesn't do detail painting! That was all my job.
Here is Daddy & Emma posing by the bookcase that Papaw built for Emma. I had asked him to make her one, so that she had a piece of furniture from each Grandpa and to build it by the time she turned 1. Well, he did it now and it is perfect! Moveable shelves, so we can arrange to fit our book needs over the years.
At this point the door is just sitting there, unattached. They hadn't quite figured out how they wanted to do the door and it's hinges. Martin thought it might be neat to have the door fold down and be used as a desk surface, but I felt like it would be in the way of reaching for toys. Mommy won that one.
In August, when Grammy &
Gramps were here, Martin asked his Dad to make or help make a
toybox for Emma. Well, they went to
Lowes and came home with the wood and
Gramps found a
pencil and paper and started sketching. He planned it all out and during the days while Martin was at work, he cut, sanded and built the box. We totally copied the shape from Josiah's new
toybox, but much smaller.
The toybox is almost complete. The dragonflies are just lying there. Only one of them is being added, along with small wooden letters that spell her name. I just got the letters and haven't painted them yet. The other 2 dragonflies are being turned into bookends. If you look closely, she has 2 ladybug bookends on the top shelf of her bookcase. I painted the bugs and Gramps made the ends to attach to them.
Here is the bookcase all set up and in use. Filled with board books, piggy bank and teddy bears. Oh, and my I pod docking station on the top, as we use it for her music/CD player. I pulled out all of the board books from the closet, all of the ones that she can't really hurt when she becomes more mobile in the very near future! We have plenty of room to grow!! (Ruth, see "Natalie" on the bottom shelf?? And Dave & Mary, there is "Ellie" the elephant that you gave to Emma on the top shelf.)
Again, we asked him to sign it for posterity. Dad has such a doctor looking scrawl!
We asked both grandpas to sign their piece. I wanted to make sure that Emma always knew who made it and when. Not a piece to be gotten rid of when she outgrows it, but a piece to be saved for her kids someday!
The bookcase being painted. Dad did a nice job building it. It has routed grooves that run along the top front facing and the lower facing.
I gave Martin choices of colors between white, pale green, pale pink or the dark chocolate stain of her furniture. He chose the pale green. So, we bought paint and went to work painting them to match. Painting that beadboard on the toybox was a pain! And Martin doesn't do detail painting! That was all my job.
Here is Daddy & Emma posing by the bookcase that Papaw built for Emma. I had asked him to make her one, so that she had a piece of furniture from each Grandpa and to build it by the time she turned 1. Well, he did it now and it is perfect! Moveable shelves, so we can arrange to fit our book needs over the years.
At this point the door is just sitting there, unattached. They hadn't quite figured out how they wanted to do the door and it's hinges. Martin thought it might be neat to have the door fold down and be used as a desk surface, but I felt like it would be in the way of reaching for toys. Mommy won that one.
In August, when Grammy & Gramps were here, Martin asked his Dad to make or help make a toybox for Emma. Well, they went to Lowes and came home with the wood and Gramps found a pencil and paper and started sketching. He planned it all out and during the days while Martin was at work, he cut, sanded and built the box. We totally copied the shape from Josiah's new toybox, but much smaller. 
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Awesome! Sounds like I wasn't the only one keeping busy.
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