My Handy (and Crafty) Husband

Kenny has been quite the handy man lately. Despite his lack of tools he's managed to build some nice furniture and other things for our home. When we lived in Virginia we wanted to make shelves for the kids that would hold bins for their toys and also house a fish tank. We never got around to it, but after moving here we revised Kenny's original plan and designed a shelf to hold toys and their gerbil tank. Over the past few months Kenny's been building a shelving unit for the little girls room and the big kids room. They are just about done (as done as they're going to get on our limited/no existent budget) and will later get some edging and a nice stain. I for one, am way impressed with his handy work and the kids love them too. I'm glad we waited and made them here so we could change them a little to work better for the kids. It's nice being married to someone who can build nice things so we don't have to spend so much to buy cheap things.

The shelves in the little girls room. The top lifts up so we can access their gerbils.

The shelves in the big kids room. It still needs a back, but I think Kenny did a great job.

Kenny has also taken to building decorations for the notch in the living room. A couple weeks ago we went to a local craft store to see what kind of decorations we wanted to do for spring. We decided to skip spring this year and just jump right into summer. We didn't really have the money and we knew we could make a nice summer theme for not too much money. We found a cute little bridge that was around $80, but Kenny thought he could make one for cheaper. So we went to Lowe's and for around $10 we got all the material for him to build a little bridge. The bridge took a few hours to build and was the perfect size for our space and the perfect addition to our forest display.

After the bridge was built Kenny decided we needed to add a tent to our forest display. I haven't been feeling very crafty lately so, sadly, I put all the creativeness and craftiness on Kenny for this project. He took his idea and spent the day building and sewing an amazing little tent out of the left over fabric from Ben's Halloween costume. Throughout the day he kept asking me if it was manly to be sewing and we decided that making a bridge and a tent were very manly. He did a fabulous job, despite some issues with the sewing machine, and now our display is almost complete. We're thinking it needs something else, but we haven't figured out what yet. Maybe a geyser like Yellowstone or a little animal walking in the forest. We'll think of something, but for now I think it's great.

A view of the room with our forest display.

A closer look at the display.

We couldn't think of how to show water flowing under the bridge so we used the blue lights from our Christmas/winter display to give the illusion of water. Not bad I think.

A close up of Kenny's bridge and tent.

I'm very impressed with Kenny's handy/craftiness lately. After he got the tent built and put up he started to feel bad because it's suppose to be my job to decorate the house. He doesn't want to be one of the men who take over the decorating. I'm just glad it's done. I think he did very well and it looks exceptional to me. Thanks Kenny for being crafty. Maybe someday I'll feel crafty again.