Making Presents

Presents are always something I struggle with. I'm terrible really. I leave everything to the last minute and then can never come up with a good idea in time. 

With my wife's birthday approaching I decided to do an idea I'd had for ages.

For the first time in what seems like a long while I was going to make her a present!

This was going to be for the bedroom. I have already made the bed from scratch, I have also made the carcasses up for the wardrobes (they just need some doors to finish them now). The only thing missing was somewhere to leave an alarm clock and have things by the side of the bed.

A bedside unit was in order. But the room isn't huge so only a small unit was needed.

The beauty of this meant that the whole thing could pretty much be built from scraps and offcuts. A great way to use them up and a great way to save money.

Making the unit is surprisingly involved as here is as many joints and bits of wood as a much bigger unit, just on a smaller scale. I managed to finish it just before picking the kids up the day before! To the wire as ever...

On her birthday morning my wife was really pleased with the unit (and the fact I'd spent very little as we're a on a tight budget at the moment). She was also really pleased that our eldest (7) had managed to remember a book that she had mentioned in passing to her month back, she couldn't remember the name but when we went back to the same bookshop in town she found it pretty much straight away by the cover.

A cake is essential for any birthday in my mind so in the afternoon I got one baked and covered in chocolate! Nearly lost my eyebrows with all the candles and I was still three short!

Bit of a fire risk now we're getting that bit older...

What was the last thing you made for someone?