The world has spoken, and the world wants more video.Īnd if the world wants more video, who are we to say no? McGuire says to Dustin Hoffman’s Benjamin in the beginning of The Graduate. I love to write, some of you love to read, so there will be some posts like this one in the future where we’ll all get what we want, but there will be a nice long video to watch as well. We intended for this to be a video-heavy post…in fact, we intended to make it into a long-form YouTube video to show the process.īut I cannot and will not ever leave those who love the written word without at least a big handful of them – even on video-only posts.

Small clamps (optional but recommended).

Gel super glue (we used about 4 or 5 bottles of Gorilla, but you can get Dollar Tree brand for about 1/2 the price – you’ll need a lot of them though, since they are sold in smaller tubes.).

Decorative molding ( we got ours at Home Depot).

It was a very educational disaster, and it led to an incredibly productive July 5th! I talk about what happened on the Fourth in the video, and I write about it at the end of this post, for those who are interested. What transpired on our glorious Day of Independence was nothing short of a disaster. If you nodded your head and whispered right, then no chicken dinner for you, madam. We embarked on this project on July 4th morning – more than enough time to whip out two fabulous-looking doors, shower, barbecue and then head out for some fireworks and festivities, right? So my babes thought it would be a grand idea to put some cane on those doors to spruce up the plain-white IKEA look and to hide the contents inside. But the doors were just plain glass, and who wants to gawk at a bunch of folded bedsheets each time they walk by, right? (On a side note, can someone please explain to me why we still call them “linens?” Please correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t most sheets and towels made from cotton these days? Do any of you fine and distinguished readers actually own linen sheets? If so, I’d love to hear about them! Meanwhile, I’m going to think about starting to call them “cottons.” I mean, it makes sense, right?)Īnyway, we had this IKEA Hauga to hold our…cottons…or linens….or whatever you want to call them. My babes just bought enough cane to cover two doors of an IKEA cabinet we’d bought and planned to put in the upstairs hallway to hold linens. Thus began our journey into the world of cane, a journey that started on July 4th and continues to this very day.

And Handan saw the cane, and it was good. And Handan said, Let there be cane: and there was cane.

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