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It all started with my bed, sort of. Mom wished to take a picture of it in all of it\’s pristine glory as the sun shown glowingly through the beautiful embroidered sheer curtains. First however, the bed needed to be made as the brand new bedspread and pillow sham were still in their packaging. The pillow that used to have the pillow sham on it was deemed unsuitable for this new pillow sham and therefore was discarded. I was sent out to find the new pillow of plumpness and proper proportions that mother had bought and stored in what we call the \”playroom\” but is now used just for storage. It is kept locked and a lot of miscellaneous stuff placed inside. I went out to get the pillow.

After entering and finding the pillow, I noticed that on the floor was Excalibur. Naturally I picked it up and remembered one of the room cleanings I\’d gone through where I\’d actually taken some of my swords out from under my bed and brought them up there because underneath my bed was getting a bit crowded. When you have fifteen swords space does become an issue.

As I brought Excalibur back inside I was thinking about swords. On my way through the kitchen I saw Dad and mentioned that it would be oh so nice to have sword rack to hang my swords on. I have thought this before. As I went upstairs to take the pillow to mother the idea of the sword rack went with me. I mentioned it to mother and the idea was not immediatly shot down. I mentioned it again and further to Dad and possibilities began being mentioned.

Ultimately this led us to Home Depot where we wandered the aisles, searching hither and yon, for the proper things to make a sword rack of. First however Mother sought a curtain rod for her window (First that day we were hanging curtians in Mom and Dad\’s room, the sword rack was an after-that thing). Then we entered the Make-Your-Own-Dream-Closet aisle where we picked up several \”possibilities\” and following that we looked about some more and got a few more \”possibilities\”. So we went home to see what worked the best.

We went home. After consultation between mother and I and deciseive action by my Dad the first piece was installed while I arranged my swords by length and considered things. However, sooner, MUCH SOONER, than I expected everything was in place. And now I am surprised. This morning my swords were scattered about collecting dust and some not even in my room and now I have a sword rack with ten of my swords on it. Two of my swords are on my dresser including the gorgeous ninja sword with a black blade given to me by Andrew and the other four are under my bed. Two of those are little daggers but I still count them as swords and the other two are my \”real\” swords as one of them is a fully functionally machete and the other is a battle worthy sword. I have much variety in my weaponry. Giving me the present of a neat looking sword is a pretty sure way of getting a favorable smile from me:) And heh, it\’s only about seven months until my birthday!

Anyway, here are some pictures of my new room (cleaner than it probably will be for some time now as it\’s already messier than it was in the pictures) and my new sword rack!