Headboard for a twin bead

Project number 1 on the queue is complete! Shown below, I stained, finished, and assembled a headboard for O.'s bed. It features a shelf, which is a currently a good place for his stuffed animal friends and his Ocean Wonders crib music/nightlight (behind the pillow), and later he can use it for books and a reading light, I suppose. The stain is Minwax "Early American" on pine wood, with four coats of a tung oil for the finish. I think the wood color looks nice with Mom's quilt and pillow sham, and it's close enough in color to the bookcase.
However, I'm not completely happy with some of the details with this headboard kit. I suppose you get what you pay for, and it wasn't like I was hoping to make an heirloom piece of furniture, but I was a little surprised at the little things.

For example, several of the joints have white streaks. The photo below shows the left side; the right side, which faces the wall fortunately for us, is even worse. My guess is that the streaks are residual glue. They only appeared after I stained it. I did go back and try to sand out the glue and restain, but no luck.

And there is some unevenness to the wood grain. For example, this big white spot in the top of the shelf. Again, it didn't appeal until after staining, and no amount of sanding would take it out.
I should have known that the quality control with this company was going to be an issue when the shelf support arrived cracked and two camlock pieces of hardware were not supplied. The company was good about about sending a new shelf support, and the camlock was standard and I purchased more at a local hardware store. However, we were thinking about ordering a headboard for our own bed to finish, but after seeing this, I don't think we'll order from this company again.

Oh well, O. is content with the headboard and his new shelf for animal storage.

There's something about this photo that makes me long to see a 1980s era Stephen Spielberg film. Hmm...I wonder why?

Oh. That's why.
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And what about the pesky project #3 on the queue, i.e., the storm door? Eh. We're on step number four. Out of 14 steps. And that's just part 1. Parts 2 and 3 have yet to be addressed. So, we're getting there. Slowly but surely.