Freckle Face Girl: November 2012

When I first started thinking about moving Caroline into her own room, I started thinking about bed options. She won't quite be 2 yet when #4 comes. This baby is due the day after Caroline's birthday, BUT, I have always delivered a month early (thanks Cholestasis of Pregnancy).

I thought about buying another crib until she was ready for a big bed. The idea of buying something that we will only use for maybe another year wasn't sounding great. I figured we can keep her in her crib since the baby will be in our bedroom for quite awhile. BUT, I wanted to have a bedroom ready for her, with a bed that I could slowly transition her into.

I decided that the IKEA Hemnes daybed was the way to go. It's cute, and would grow with her...so no need to buy something different in another year.

Since I enjoy being frugal, I decided to only buy it when I had sold enough stuff that we didn't need anymore via Craigslist, until I had enough money to get the bed ($399), plus the mattress (~$200-ish).

But the more I thought about it, the more that seemed like alot of money to spend on a little bed, when I had never spent that much on the boys beds. Plus with another baby on the way, I didn't want to throw that much money at one thing for only one child. Make sense? And I didn't have anything else we weren't using to sell, and only had about $200. Hmmmm.

And then I remembered Ana White and her awesome plans that I had seen on tons of other blogs. And then the sky opened up and angels sang and ... well, you get the idea. I found this daybed plan, based off of a Pottery Barn version.

Ana White Lydia Daybed Plans

I quickly dragged my husband to the computer and made him ready the plans, while reareassuringly saying "WE can do this, RIGHT???? ". And by WE, I mean HE. And by RIGHT I mean let's go to the store right now and buy the supplies so you can devote many weekends between football to this project.

We had a Lowes giftcard for $100 that we hadn't used yet (thanks Dad!) and off we went. YAHOO! It was just barely over $100. Can't beat that!

I didn't really have anything to do with the process. I did go out in the garage and give my professional opinion a few times...the directions were pretty great and it didn't seem to be difficult. The difficult part was that it is football season...