Accumulated Artifacts: The Monkey's Desk.

My Husband found this on the side of the road about 5 years ago.

He thought it would make a good desk for the girl. She was 5 at the time, so I'm not really sure what he thought she needed a desk for, but whatever.

She used it for a while. We carried it with us through several moves. It lived in her room until I decided it didn't go with the rest of her room. And she had too much junk in there anyway. And why don't you ever put your laundry in the stupid basket? There are three baskets up here! What is that!? An oatmeal cream pie!? You KNOW you are not supposed to have food in here! When was the last time you vacuumed!! What is that purple stuff on the carpet!?! Where did you get an INK POT!?! WHY is there play dough DRIED to your keyboard!?! The CAT sleeps WhErE!?!? Oh...uh...right...so, you get the point. Anyway, I moved the desk to the shed area and it became a catch all for gardening stuff.

Now that she's in school, and has homework which is an actual need for a desk, I figured it was time to send it back up there. But certainly not looking like it did and with three years of outside nastiness on it. So I sanded all the funk off and made it nice and smooth. It took me a while to finally decide what I was going to do with it. After some paint and stain it looked much better.