Why I Love Jonny!

Happy Valentine's Day.

This post won't be about the day- though I will tell you that I asked for bird feeders from Jonny, and we will be eating lobster and steak (my favourite) at home, instead of wasting a whole lot of money for something less yummy, in a crowded restaurant. 

This post will be about why I love Jonny.... a few of the reasons.

And those reasons are that we both share a hate for coordinated bedroom sets, can see beauty in unconventional things, and love anything simple, from the earth or with its own historic story.

Out of those shared loves, came this beautiful headboard... that I thought up and Jonny executed.

London trying to sleep with this new "monster" at the head of the bed

The life of this headboard started here (as does the life of anything driftwood in our house):

My grandmother teaches me everything important in life- how to cook salt fish, and how to dress for the cabin!

This is what we call the "bottom" of Penguin Arm (read about Penguin Arm here).  When the tide falls here, there is a wide expanse of beach exposed, and it is where the water drags all the drifting material in the whole bay.  As children we LOVED to visit this beach at low tide.  Not only were there dozens of isolated salt water pools, to find fish and shrimp and other sea creatures waiting for the water to come back in, we would find all kinds of things washed up on the shore- balls, sand buckets, anything else that floats!

And then, when I got a little older, I realized this place was a GOLD MINE for old beaten driftwood.  Every summer you can see My mom and Nan (in the picture), Jonathan and I... coming down the beach dragging new treasures to the dory.  

And then, after months of waiting for the some free time, a headboard is born.  A unique, well built, one-of-a-kind headboard that costed us nothing at all, except some hard work and screws!  I am happy every time I see it, and I love Jonny a little more that he is happy every time he sees it also.

We wanted to keep the wood all natural, so we kept everything at different lengths.

I love different patterns together, life this chevron and yellow floral combo!