DIY

So I am a young Mormon mother blogger. This must mean that I am skilled at home improvement, do it yourself projects right? right? Yeah not so much. It is not for lack of trying. Over the last five years I have attempted to sand and stain an old coffee table, paint my front door (twice,) change the hardware out in the bathroom, and a few other things. The coffee table was fine until I finished the last coat and went to bed for the night. The next day I came out to the garage to find a layer of fuzz on the table that wouldn't come off! The front door was painted twice. The first time I didn't like the color, and both times it just looked wrong. No matter how hard I sanded and primed you could still see the brush strokes. I have since noticed the same problem with other people's doors and don't take it as personally. I can't even really talk about the bathroom handles. It is still to painful. The one item that sums up my DIY experience is the mailbox. About a month ago I decided to just put some simple stickers on my mailbox to denote the house number. (I had gotten several complaints from visitors about the confusing numbering on my street.) I thought to myself how hard can this be? Peel off back and apply sticker. Well as you can see I am a complete idiot.


Emily + DIY = Just not right.

The added salt in the wound for the mailbox was that the VERY NEXT DAY, a friend in the ward posted on her blog what she had done that weekend.
Yeah, sometimes it is really hard to be in my ward. I mean really....