Lack Hack

My Favorite Teenage Girl was up north last weekend for her birthday.  (Usually I head down south since there are two Favorite Teenagers and only one Mom.)

She's crafty like Mom so we spent an afternoon getting down with an Ikea Lack side table (nightstand  in her room) and some Modge Podge.  She called the shots while I watched and cut out things on command.  Behold: the evolution of a teenage mind.

  

Most Important Home Improvement Tool: My Phone

Facetime is awesome. Here's proof. I bought two of these ceiling lights for the downstairs, one in the basement hallway and one above the stair landing.

I decided to be a badass and install these myself. Except for constant wishing for extra hands to sprout from my body, the first one was installed with no issues. I may have used my head to balance the light while one hand held screws and one held a screwdriver but it worked out with minimal profanity.

Things got ugly on the stair landing.

WHERE WAS THE METAL BOX THINGY THAT I SCREW THE NEW FIXTURE INTO? WHERE WAS THE GROUNDING WIRE? AM I GOING TO DIE?

Thankfully, Dad has an iPhone. Dad to the rescue. He calmed me down and talked me through it. I ended up screwing the new fixture into the beam, after he promised me I wouldn't electrocute myself and set the house on fire and it all worked out.