Quite a few fell out onto the floor too, but I just swept them up and added them to my easter decor using a clear.
As much as I really think it’s pretty fun to follow Jack around the house while he climbs all over everything, some times it’s nice to have a break and be able to just sit down with him and play in one room without him taking off every 1.7 seconds.We like this to be our living room, but unfortunately, the opening into the dining room beside is really big and just doesn’t work with regular baby gates.
A couple of months ago, Chris came up with a solution that works really well.It’s not only sturdy and effective at caging in our little wild animal, it’s also pretty too!So here he is with his tutorial for the baby gate made from an old crib!.
A few weeks ago we posted a Christmas Home Tour to showcase the Christmas decor around our house.As is common here at The Creek Line House, at least one picture inadvertently revealed a little of our ‘reality’, that is, reality of life with 2 young children.
Let’s play spot the baby gate:.
Luckily this time, our reality generated a little interest and we received a few requests on how we salvage-DIYed our baby gate to cover such a large opening.I was thinking that surely they must have some kind of amazingly brilliant explanation for why we shouldn’t make my book beautiful and photo-filled, and as soon as I heard it, I would completely understand.
But of course, that was not the case.Why is it that these phone calls always catch me so off guard?.
It turns out that the only real thinking was that there had been another book, also about cleaning, that was in that same smaller format and it didn’t have pictures, and it was available at that lower price point and it had done quite well, so they were really just toying with the idea that maybe that was what readers would respond well to.And also they were thinking “How do you really.