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Check out this "diamond in the rough" for our front porch!  A friend of our family was going to throw this chair away and offered it to my dad who offered it to me and of course was I going to pass it up?  No way! 

MN Vacation

A few weeks ago, my family loaded up the kayak (at that time my parents only had one...) and traveled 7+ hours up to northern MN.  We spent a little under a week at a beautiful lake.  The water and the weather were both glorious, however maybe a little bit chilly for late July weather.  The lake was clear, yes I said clear!  You could kayak out towards the middle and still see the bottom.  We spent the week reading, laying out, having camp fires, swimming, canoeing and kayaking and it was so relaxing!  We tried to convince my parents that they needed to buy a cabin that was for sale up the road from where we rented out cabin :)  Can we go back please??

The fam.!

You can just get a glimpse of our cabin behind A in this picture.

Yes folks, we even had camp fires!

1970s At Its Best!

So, here is the story of this bed.  Before I moved into my first apartment in college, someone from our church offered an old bed frame to my family.  It was from the 1970s (clearly) but it was functional and just what I needed.  I bought a mattress, a friend gave us their box spring and we were set.  This little old bed served its purpose for me, then "moved" out of state to go to college with A.  A got good use out of it and then the bed made its journey back in state to go to college with K last year when she moved into her first apartment.
 
Well, the nice thing about being a teacher is that we get summers off.  So, I decided this summer that after going to college three different times and after countless moves in and out of state, this little old bed needed an update. 
We painted it aqua that my dad had left over from another painting project, distressed it...because that's what I love to do, and set it up in K's new apartment.  It looks great!  Cost of the project?  FREE!!