I have this shelving unit from IKEA that I bought when we first moved in here (months ago) for the living room. It's raw wood (pine I think) and I always intended to weather/distress it but I never had time.

Soo yesterday I got tired if staring at the ugly monstrosity (my phone just tried to auto-correct that to montissori...), so I whipped up some vinegar steel wool solution and planned to do it this weekend.

But my baby went to sleep half an hour early.

SO! Very quietly, I dragged the whole giant thing into my kitchen, and "weathered" the whole thing in an hour!

I'm all sweaty and vinegar-ey but it looks AWESOME and yay me.
This is the biggest thing I have accomplished since a baby moved in to my house. Maybe there is hope.
That is all.