stickin' it to pinterest - vol. 3

remember back in this post how i said pinterest gave me anxiety?  how i worried about after all the time i spent pinning, i would never actually put all the carefully placed & picked pins to perfect pin-ity use?  well here i am.   continuing in my endeavors to make use of my well curated pinterest boards & stickin' it to the pinterest man.

go me!

{see previous projects here & here}

this was actually something i'd seen a long time ago... before the days of pinterest {aka: the dark ages.  what'd we do before pinterest??  dishes?  sleep?}.  when i saw these shelves pop up on pinterest in a couple places i decided it was time to incorporate them into p-ray's room.  it had to happen.

the very first place i saw these IKEA spice rack shelves turned bookshelves was here, but they popped up again here.  it's not like you need a super detailed tutorial on this one, but who would i be if i didn't provide one?  not the amy you all know & love.  that's who.

here goes.

it really doesn't get any cheaper to make some sort of awesome wall-storage for the little man's books.  at $3.99 a piece i think the whole project cost around $20 after the spray paint & wall screws were bought {the shelves don't come with anything to hang them by}.  check out IKEA's website & see if yours carries these sweet little racks.

remember, they're sold as spice racks so they're around the kitchen shelving stuff.

obviously you don't have to do this, but i wanted to match the shelves to the rest of p-ray's furniture, which for the most part is white {check out his whole nursery tour here}.  also, make sure your husband doesn't care if you get white paint all over the garage floor despite painting on top of something.  lucky for me, mine didn't.  because yeah, that happened.

it wouldn't be from IKEA if it didn't require "some" assembly.  but lucky for you & me it's pretty easy to put these bad boys together.  unless you're prone to wrist cramping from the the little wrench that's included when putting in the screws... which i may or may not be.  ok i am.

it was pretty obvious where this needed to go.  we read books on p-ray's great-grandmother's hand-me-down rocker before naptime & bedtime but had nowhere handy to store the books.  so... duh.

it's true.  while sam helped me level the shelves & hand-drill holes into our wall, i got caught up in lots of p-ray picture taking.  i couldn't help it.  because how cute is he watching toy story on my phone with all his stuffed animal friends??

{sidenote:  sunday was kind of another sick day for him.  i thought he was 100% better, but turns out it's more like 75% since his fever has been coming & going.  boo.}

parker LOVES his new reading nook.  he loves being able to sit on your lap & have all his books on display for his choosing pleasure.  just when he was getting impossible to keep settled on your lap for story time, this glues him right back down into that chair.  and for that?  we're loving it.

and for your viewing pleasure... two more pictures.  because i couldn't decide which one not to include & thus?  included them both.

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