Becoming a Woman: The Story of a Headboard

Well guys, it happened, I am officially a woman; I have a headboard!  A few months back I shared a post about my longing for a headboard, you can find it here.  I knew I wanted a rustic style, DIY headboard but I had a couple different ideas.  I finally settled on this being my inspiration...

I didn't have a pallet big enough for my bed so I simply sent this picture to my craftsman (my father) and he built it for me. I would have loved to do the staining myself but I wasn't able to make time in my schedule to drive up to Riverside and do it.  But, the important thing is that I have a head board, see...

Reed the deer loves it.

My Nest

I call my room my nest, I firmly believe everyone should have a nest.  When your room is a nest it means it's homey and cozy and a place for you to unwind.  When I moved into my current home in August I did a mini room tour but here are a couple of snippets of my room today...

What is your "nest" like?  Is your nest even a nest? If not I strongly advise your make it one.  You'll need:

• Things that make you happy 
• something that smells good like candles, linen spray etc.
• cozy throw pillows and blankets
• and you'll definitely need a pillow pet (I strongly believe world peace would be achieved if everyone had a pillow pet)

Room Tour

So as most of you know I moved into my new house about two weeks ago and I had promised a room tour. So excuse the shitty photos via my iphone and terrible lighting in my new room but here it goes!

To see my tutorial on making a knob necklace hanger go here.

Check out how I made the vintage jewelry box to the left here.

Interested in how I made the fabric magnet board above my bed? Go here.

So there is a very small room tour showing some of my pervious DIY projects finally up in my new place! School is back in full swing so I have been busy with that and getting to know SD. I'm really loving in down here though. Hope all is well with you fellow bloggers!