November 27th 2015 - 3-in-1 sofa bed

Following on from a post a few days ago of changing the boys room around to make more space and buying a 3-in-1 sofa bed I can now report that it has arrived.

2 big boxes with the postman outside the door in the pouring rain!  Good job neither were heavy or it would have been a 2 man job to lift them.

We have a blue and silver version of the 3-in-1 sofa bed as boys room is blue.  My 1st thoughts were they were not going to be very comfy as  didn't look that deep.  But when we opened it out and I sat on it, it is actually comfy.

the 3-in-1 sofa bed is made all in 1 piece of foam and covered.  It can be stored folded as a cube, opened out with the small ends up as a low sofa or opened out fully with the small ends as a sofa bed.  This is going to be stored as a cube so that the boys have room to play etc and it will only be opened out when people stay.

The boys have all laid on it and said that it is really comfy and we have had arguments over who was sitting on it to read.  The cat has also given her seal of approval and has been laid on it asleep since we got in from the school run.

The only downside is its not long enough for adults to sleep on and we thought it may be as it was listed as a uni/student sofa bed.  but if we have to buy a piece of foam the same depth then we will do, but as its mainly going to be used by the kids and their friends its not a big problem.

March 10th 2015 - Making a new hide

March 10th 2015 - Making anew hide

My bearded dragon is growing!  This is good for him but not for me as the hide I made him from expanding foam when he was a baby is now getting too small and he can only get his head/front into it not all of him.

So I looked on pinterest for ideas to make him a new hide.  There isn't many but as I needed a pin for today I have linked to one of them. 

I had the box my smoke machine came in going in recycling bin, so I decided to use this for his new hide as its big.

I cut out the middle of the box as an arch so he could get in/out of it.

I then covered the inside in expanding foam, making sure that all of the edges and pins that hold the box together were covered.  The expanding foam gives a really bumpy/rock look when its dry.

I'm now waiting for this to fully dry so that I can add a ramp to it and then coat the ramp and the outside with expanding foam so that it all looks like rock.  I will update and add more pics once its done and then it will need to be painted with grey acrylic.