Merry Christmas!

I know, I know, Christmas was like 3 months ago (or only 9 months away...how many shopping days is that?). But really this post is long overdue. This just means that I'm lazy, that's all. You'll see what I mean.

When Ryan and got married the bed we had was a double size mattress set and a hand-me-down from my brother. The bed was only a metal frame with the box spring and mattress stacked on top. There was no fancy headboard or foot board to dress it up with. In fact, the mattress wasn't in the best of condition either. It sagged to one side. Not the best for starting a life together with, but it was what we could 'afford' being the young-married, college-age couple that we were. Affordable meant 'free'.

Here we are today married for over 11 years and I have yet to have a fancy, put together bed. Granted, we did buy a new mattress set seven years ago (queen size, thank you very much! Oh, and pillow top too....I love my bed, even seven years later!). So this past Christmas Ryan gave me a new bed! Well, essentially he gave me 'bed bucks' to buy a new frame. Whatever. I was thrilled!

It didn't take very long to find one that we both agreed on (amazing, actually, since we both had different ideas on what we wanted.....ahhh, isn't marriage exciting?). We bought a bed frame but the headboard was on backorder. While waiting for the headboard to complete my long-awaited finished bed, I got a new duvet cover and shams (great deals are awesome.....I love Ikea!) After a couple of weeks we finally had it all together and set up.

So, without further ado, here is my newly put together bed!




























Here's the lazy part - it's taken me almost 2 whole months to take these pictures....and they aren't even that great! And these pictures really don't do the bed or my fabulous new red duvet cover justice. *sigh* Oh well.

Maybe for our 25th annivesary we'll get some matching side tables (do you like how uneven it is?!) Oh, and the lights....another great purchase from Ikea (2 for $12!)

So there you have it, my new bed with a glorious headboard and fabulous red linens! I love red, can you tell? *wink*