Painting...

I love the new grays that are at Sherwin Williams right now.  I also love their 40% off sale!

We got some paint for the kitchen Friday and I spent all day Saturday painting the breakfast nook.  I did it in two shades.  A lighter shade behind the buffet that we are (still) building and a slightly darker shade of the same family on the other three walls.  Here are some pics.

Ignore the mess in the buffet...I'm using it to hold all the painting stuff right now.  lol

We also got the stiles and rails jointed, planed, and cut for the doors. Now I have a lot of sanding to do!  Twelve stiles and twelve rails...ugh. We have three to redo because the router took some bites out of them that it shouldn't have.  I guess it was hungry.  :)

Sealed by God
By Max Lucado
As a parent, when our children stumble, we don’t disown them. We may punish or reprimand, but cast them out of the family? We cannot. They are biologically connected to us. Those born with our DNA will die with it.God, our Father, engenders the same relationship with us. Upon salvation we become, as John 1:12 says, “children of God.” He alters our lineage, redefines our spiritual parenthood, and in doing so, secures our salvation. Paul says, “Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit” (Ephesians 1:13). And a soul sealed by God is safe! God paid too high a price to leave us unguarded.Again, a reminder from Paul in Ephesians 4:30, “He has identified you as his own, guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of redemption.” What a difference this assurance makes!

By Grace Alone...

Slowing Down

We kind of took the weekend off.  Other than installing the pull outs that we got when we were in Texas (during Christmas) and putting in the 45 degree angle brackets we didn't do anything pertaining to the cabinet. I also finished putting the oil on everything.  The last items are the shelves, doors, and counter top.  I played around with pots and pans to see if everything would fit.  I got almost everything in that I wanted to.  I may have to visit the container store again for a couple more pullouts.

Here are the 45 degree angle brackets that we got installed this weekend.

This is a sample of the quartz counter top we picked out.  The paint colors are for the walls in the kitchen.  (I'm using either the lightest or the next lightest for the walls and the other two colors will be used in a stencil I ordered.  (To be shown after I finish it...no spoilers!)  We have never had to paint any walls in this house since we bought it almost 9 years ago.  The paint that the builder used was amazing and cleanable.  (Sherwin Williams does paint right!)  I'm ready for a change though.

I didn't finish this post yesterday, but we actually got the shelves finished today.  We marked off everything on our 'list' that has been completed and the only thing left is the creation of the doors.  I say "the only thing" but they will be the hardest thing of all.  There are six of them and we are making them out of walnut which means that we have to joint and plane the wood before we can cut the pieces just like we did for the sides and the front facing.  I think we are both dreading it because precision is key to making them.  I can't tell you how many times on this project we have made the statement "Well, no one will see that!".  LOL   When something comes out perfect, we go, "Wow, can you believe that, it just fell into place."  

Your Part is to Trust
By Max Lucado
Some of us have written our own Bible verse from Popular Opinion 1:1: “God helps those who help themselves.” We’ll fix ourselves, thank you. We’ll make up for our mistakes with contributions, our guilt with busyness. We’ll overcome our failures with hard work. We’ll find salvation the old-fashioned way…we’ll earn it!

Christ, in contrast, says to us; your role is to trust. Trust me to do what you can’t. By the way, you take similar steps of trust daily. You believe the chair will support you, so you set your weight on it. You trust the work of the light switch, so you flip it. You daily trust power you cannot see to do a work you cannot accomplish.

Jesus invites you to do the same with him. But just him. Not another leader. Not even yourself. Just Christ. Look to Jesus…and believe!

By Grace Alone...

Busy Week!

We got a lot done on the cabinet this week.  God has kept our hands busy.  Early in the week, we got the floors completed.  (Shown in first two pictures)  This gave some more stability to the cabinets but the real stability came whenever we got the back's cut and added on.  Those cabinets are as solid as a rock now.  Tongue and groove is absolutely the way to go when putting together a cabinet.  

Today we got the backs and the nail rails put on, as well as my slide out shelf cut, sanded, and installed. 

We ordered the quartz top for it yesterday.  It is called Alpina White but it has different shades of gray in it as well.  I'm going to paint the wall behind the cabinet a light gray and put stencils of limbs of trees and birds across the wall.  I ordered the stencil stuff last night also.  I'll need to get that done before the top comes.  Now all we lack on the cabinet is the shelves, 45 degree corner boards, and the doors.  (The doors will take quite a while because we will be back to working with raw Walnut wood again.)  We find ourselves stepping back and saying "Wow, did we really do this?"  It seemed like an astronomical project when we started but taking it in small bits like we have has made it fun and relatively easy.  (all bloodshed aside)

"A Simple Exercise
By Max Lucado
Do a simple exercise with me.  Measure your life against just these four standards from the Ten Commandments:

You must not steal.  Have you ever stolen anything?  A paper clip?  A parking space? ... you thief.
You must not lie.  Those who say they haven't - just did.

You must not commit adultery.  Jesus said, "If you look at a woman with lust, you've committed adultery in your heart" (Matthew 5:28).

You must not murder.  Before you claim innocence, Jesus said "Anyone who is so much as angry with a brother or sister is guilty of murder" (Matthew 5:22).Jesus made his position clear: "Anyone whose life is not holy will never see the Lord" (Hebrews 12:14).  

So where does that leave us?  It leaves us drawing hope from 1 Corinthians 15:3.  Christ died for our sins - in place of - on behalf of!  So, don't measure yourself by keeping commandments.  Measure yourself by the cross."

By Grace Alone -

A Purposeful LIfe

I like to tell my husband that I am here to give his life purpose.  He laughs and thinks to himself that he could use a little less purpose.  :)

The cabinet is coming along nicely but it looks like the next week will be down time.  Tom did some serious damage to one of his hands yesterday and then today he damaged the other hand on the router and it is damaged so badly that he needs to let it rest and heal.  Both wounds bled profusely and one of them probably should have had stitches but he refused, being the tough guy he is, so he needs to be really careful and not break it open again.  

I think I enjoy the woodworking a bit more than Tom.  Don't get me wrong, he enjoys it as long as I'm not asking a million questions or if something goes a bit wrong...lol.  I tend to want to know exactly what we are doing next.  Step by step and if I don't understand it, I ask again.  Poor Tom.  I've never been one to learn anything halfway.  Since there is so much that is 'directional' and I am 'directionally challenged' it makes it hard on him.

Here are the latest pictures.  The bay walls are finally up!  The cleats are in also.  We got the kick panel done but have not installed it yet.  That's about it for now.

God's Love Will Not Let Go
By Max Lucado

George Matheson was a teenager when doctors told him he was going blind.  He graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1861.   By the time he finished graduate seminary studies, he was sightless.  His fiance returned his engagement ring with a note.  I cannot see my way clear to go through life bound by the chains of marriage to a blind man.

Matheson adapted to his sightless world but never quite recovered from his broken heart.  He became a powerful and poetic pastor, led a full and inspiring life, turning to the unending love of God for comfort.  And he penned these words:

"Oh love that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in thee;
I give thee back the life I owe, that in thine ocean depths its flow may richer fuller be."

The love of people may come and go, but God's love will never leave you.

By Grace Alone -

Getting Excited!

It's funny how you get excited as you start getting closer to some goal that you have set for yourself.  We are definitely making progress on our creation of the cabinets for the breakfast nook.  We now have a standing product.  Very exciting stuff.  We are actually amazed each time we see it because we can't believe we did it!  My husband, Tom, is quite the designer.  I tell him what I want and he spends months designing it so it is just right when we go to cut the pieces.  

It's funny how much time was spent on the end pieces (literally hours and hours of jointing, planing, cutting, sanding, oiling and waxing) and only one of them will be visible.  That piece of furniture to the left will be removed and the cabinets will actually fit in that corner.  So, this is where we are until this weekend when we have time to work some more on it.  

What Makes the Difference?

By Max Lucado

I once shared a class with a girl who got engaged.  I don't remember much about the class except the hour was early and the teacher was dull.  I don't even remember the girl's name.  I do remember that she didn't stand out in the crowd.  She was shy and not very confident. 

One day, however, her hair changed and her outfit changed.  Even her voice changed.  She spoke with confidence.  What made the difference?  Simple.  A young man she loved looked her squarely in the eye and said, "Come and spend forever with me."  He proposed to her.  His love for her convinced her she was worth loving.  God's love can do the same.  It can change us!  The Bible says " God has loved you with an everlasting love; He has drawn you with loving-kindness." (Jeremiah 31:3).  

Jesus can live without us -- But he doesn't want to! 

 By Grace Alone... 

Jesus Was a Carpenter

I had often wondered why Jesus was a carpenter.  I think I get it now.  He took something rough and imperfect and made it into something beautiful.  Just like he has done with us.  Our imperfections and the trials in our lives have made us more loving and beautiful internally, even if they haven't made us more beautiful on the outside.  He loves us sins and all and His love molds us into something more beautiful than the rough spots that show on our skin.

We had this piece of wood that was really rough, and it was rough through and through...no matter how much we shaved off of it during the planing process.  It was going to be one of the 'pretty cut' panels too so I was a little worried about it.  Not too much, just a little.  When it was completed, that flaw shone so beautifully and darker than the rest of the wood.  I was so glad that we had used that particular piece for the 'pretty cut' part of the end.  I don't know if you can tell from the picture below but the board on the left that is all oiled up, right in the very center where you see the swirls the most was the rough part.  I had sanded it from 100 grit down to 12,000 grit and it shone like glass all over but the rough looking part still had little dips in it.  The oil soaked into those dips and made it a very beautiful piece of wood.

When all the boards are put together to make the end of the cabinet, it will look like the picture below.  The picture below is before sanding, waxing, or gluing together.

Last week was super busy taking care of our grandson while he was on spring break.  We spent a lot of time doing make-up homework because he had been sick for two weeks.  But Friday we finally left the house and went to the space and rocket center to have some fun.  We captured a few pictures where he wasn't running all over the place (which was not easy...he is a very active child..lol).

We rode the 3G which spins you around and gets to going up to 3 G's, which at first feels pretty good because it feels like your compressed spine got totally uncompressed but then it feels like your spine is going to come apart when it gets up to 3G's.  I was ready for it to end and decided that I am getting too old for fun like that...lol.

This week we are back to focusing on the cabinet and ready for the break from childcare.  :)  Tom has been calculating how much more wood we will be needing to get on Saturday at our special wood getting place and I sanded today.

A Tabulated List of Grace
By Max Lucado
A couple who resorted to do-it-yourself marriage counseling resolved to list each other’s faults and then read them aloud. The wife gave her list and he read: You snore; you eat in bed; the list continued. When the husband gave her his list, she smiled. He’d written his grievances, but next to each he’d written– I forgive this. The result was a tabulated list of grace.Imagine you are before the judgment seat of Christ. The book is opened and the reading begins—each sin, each deceit, each occasion of greed. But as soon as the infraction is read, grace is proclaimed. Jesus says, I forgive this. Registered forgiveness! No humiliation! No shame! Because in heaven you will be in your sinless state—happy to let God do in heaven what he did on earth. He will be honored in your weakness! 

By Grace Alone...

More Cabinet Building

Our day yesterday was extremely productive!  I sanded the front face frame to a glowing sheen and Tom jointed, planed and cut almost all of the boards for one of the side panels.  Below are some pictures of the completed fun.  We really are having a blast with this!  The final sanding on the front face was with 12,000 grit sand paper.

"Jesus is Praying for You
By Max Lucado
While we wait for Christ's return, we can be encouraged because Jesus is praying for us! As recorded in Luke 22:31, Jesus says, "Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to test all of you as a farmer sifts his wheat."  Loose translation - Satan is gonna slap your faith like a farmer slaps wheat on the threshing floor!
You would expect Jesus' next words to be, So get out of town! But Jesus shows no panic.  In verse 32, He says, "I have prayed that you will not lose your faith.  Help your brothers be stronger when you come back to me."
Everything changes when Jesus prays for us.  The devil may land a punch or two, but he never wins the fight.  Jesus protected Peter, and Jesus is protecting you."

By Grace Alone -

God Keeps our Hands Busy

We are really loving retirement.  For the moment, cancer is leaving me alone.  I couldn't be more thankful!  

Tom and I (ok, it might have been more me than Tom...) decided that we needed to work on a project together so we pulled all the walnut boards that we had bought last year out of the attic. The first board you see below has a lot of issues (too warped and bent to even think of straightening out with the jointer and planer) so we set it aside to be dealt with last. (If at all.)

So, what are we making?  I've been begging for some cabinets for my breakfast nook area and Tom had already created the design to build them.  When it is done, it will have 3 bays and, if all goes according to plan, it will be 104" Wide X 40" High.

The first thing we had to do (yeah, he let me play with the wood some too!) was cut the first pieces down to a general size and then run them through the jointer and the planer.  Sounds like nothing, right?  At the end of the first day (about 5 hours of work) we only had 3 'stiles' done.  These stiles were each 2' wide by ~38" long.  (When the final cut is made on them, they would only be 36.5" long)  They looked so pitiful sitting by themselves on the blue moving mat.  I didn't get a picture of that but we were like Jimmy Stewart in the movie "It's a Wonderful Life" when he is dancing around with two one dollar bills telling them to make babies.

The next day (about 3 days later, since we have other obligations to take care of also) we got the rest of the stiles and rails done for the front face frame.  This was 7 pieces of wood cut, jointed, and planed in one day.  We we VERY excited to see all those little pieces lying together.  Below are the six rails completed.

Today, Tom used the router to put the grooves in for the floor and the corner pieces that go on the top front.  After that, came the gluing and screwing together of the rails and stiles.  We actually ALSO got the Front Face Frame put together.  Below are some additional pictures of the process we went through today.

We just HAD to drag it into the kitchen and see how it was going to fit.  :)  Loving the variegated walnut colors.  Can't wait to see how the doors come out.  Raw wood is so fun to work with.

 

The "Max" for today is for my husband and I.  I won't say that the 'building' of the front face frame was easy when we started the project but it developed into a rhythm of love.  It has been years since we did a project together and we are both leaders so there is always a bit of pull and push in the beginning but Love Bears All Things.  I love you, honey, and I'm so thankful to be here doing a project with you (and for your patience with me as you teach me about woodworking!).

"Love Bears All Things
by Max Lucado

Wouldn't it be great if love were like a cafeteria line?  It would be easier.  It would be neater.  It would be painless and peaceful.  But you know what?  It wouldn't be love.  Love doesn't accept just a few things.  Love is willing to accept all things!  In 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Paul says, "Love bears all thing, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."  I envision the leathery-faced saint pausing in his dictation.  Checking off his fingers, he reviews his list.  Let's see...patience, kindness, envy, arrogance.  We've mentioned rudeness, selfishness, and anger; forgiveness, evil, and truth.  Have I covered all things?  Ah, that's it--all things!   Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.   Every single one!"

By Grace Alone... 

Cancer Part Deux

As all good plans go...they are always subject to change.  :)

It turned out I did not have the BRCA1 or BRCA2 Genetic Mutation.  I, instead, have the FANCC genetic mutation which could be the cause for my breast cancer (as well as a myriad of other health issues I've had all my life).  Unfortunately, Tricare doesn't recognize that mutation for the removal of the second breast so I kept one breast and they removed the other cancerous one.  I opted against breast augmentation and instead decided to use a breast prosthesis.  

How did the surgery go?  Well, I was allergic to something and broke out in a rash all over my neck, lower face, and upper chest.  The doctor thinks it might have been the tape the anesthesiologist used.  I thought it might be the Ancef antibiotic but he doesn't want to take that off the table in case he needs to use it in the future.  It was more painful that the actual 14 inch incision in my chest that wrapped around to my back until it cleared up two weeks later.  It started as blisters and then itched me into craziness.  Good distraction from the actual mastectomy I guess.  lol.

After they took the tube out, I have developed a really nice seroma.  (This is a pocket of clear serous fluid that sometimes develops in the body after surgery. When small blood vessels are ruptured, blood plasma can seep out; inflammation caused by dying injured cells also contributes to the fluid.)  We want to wait and see if my body will absorb the fluid as it should but it really is quite painful now that it is the size of a small breast sitting there on my chest muscle.  I see the surgeon tomorrow and I may take on the risk of infection just to get the fluid out.  (This is why it isn't recommended to drain them.)

So, all this is EXTREMELY boring but I wanted to put it in here so that I would remember it all if I ever got cancer in the other breast and had to go through this all over again.  You know, like "what is normal and what isn't for my body".  lol  

Everyone is so concerned about me psychologically losing a breast.  Personally, I say GOOD RIDDANCE.  That breast had provided me with nothing but worry for the last five years.  Once this pain is gone, I am going to be a very very happy woman.  I have no regrets for having lost the breast.  I just see it as God's plan for my life.  I don't need it to be a better person.  I don't need to be happy.  I don't need it to worship God.  My husband loves me just as much without it as he did with it.  Life is still GOOD.  I am thankful for the opportunity God gave me to rid myself of current and all future cancers in that breast.  Praise be to God...

"Say Thank You

By Max Lucado

The Apostle Paul says, “Give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Ephesians 5:20).

You don’t have to name a child after God, but then again, you could. Or you could draft a letter listing all His blessings or write a song in His honor. You could sponsor an orphan or adopt a child just because God adopted you. The surest path out of a slump is marked by the road sign, “Thank you.”

But what of the disastrous days? Are you grateful then? Jesus was. “On the night when He was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread, and when He had given thanks, He broke it…” (1 Corinthians 11:23-24). Not often are the words betrayed and thanks in the same sentence, much less in the same heart. Anyone can thank God for the light. Jesus teaches us to thank God for the night!"

By Grace Alone -

Teresa

The PLAN

"As soon as you're diagnosed with breast cancer, you desperately try to figure out how it could have happened.  You analyze your life a thousand times over, rack your brains searching for THE reason, beat your head against the wall, experience endless guilt.  All you get is a headache.  Drop it!  Save your precious energy for your health and well-being."  Maris Weiss, M.D.

I've be given the blessing of a second diagnosis of breast cancer.  It's different this time.  (I can say it is different after having the full diagnosis and being armed to the teeth with knowledge....I don't care what anyone says...knowledge is power.)  I feel no fear this time.  I felt nothing but fear last time.  I felt like the cancer demons were nipping at my heels.  This time...I have a 'PLAN'.

This isn't a recurrence of the last breast cancer.  My body wanted to generate an entirely different kind since we found a way to beat the last one.  Last time, it was Invasive Ductal Carcinoma.  This time it is just measly Ductal Carinoma In Situ.  All contained in the ductal region of the breast.  Not even strong enough to break out yet.  We can take our time and map out a real plan to conquer this one.  So....here's the 'PLAN'.

Yesterday, we went to see the Breast Health Specialist at the Breast Center, Sandy Cross.  She made several recommendations.  I've added some of her recommendations to my 'PLAN'.  Sandy felt because my body had generated two completely different types of breast cancer within a 4 year span that it would be a good idea (just in case I had a gene mutation that would continue to cause me to grow breast cancer over and over) to have a double mastectomy as opposed to a single mastectomy.  She suggested I see a geneticist counselor.  We have TIME to make these decisions with this type of cancer.

Today we went to see the Geneticist Counselor, Amy George, to talk about checking my genes for possible gene mutations.  (Step 1 of the 'PLAN')  She agreed that with two different types of breast cancer that it was a good idea to check.  If I have a gene mutation, then I will have a double mastectomy, if I do not, we will do a single.

We also talked to my Cancer Doc, Dr. Waples.  He talked to us about no chemo 'at this time' BUT if they found other invasive cancer cells when they do the biopsies on the breast tissue they remove, that I may need chemo after all.  I am supposedly not allowed to get my hopes up about 'no chemo' yet.  He also told us to keep our options open about reconstruction.  He says they've come a long way with breast implants but does not recommend using body tissue to rebuild the breasts.  He wants us to talk to a plastic surgeon and hear what they have to say.

Step 2 of the PLAN is to discuss options with Dr Sheppard our surgeon tomorrow.  We're having a bit of trouble getting a good plastic surgeon that is in the tricare family.   There are only three in the area and none of them are ones that my cancer doc recommends.  We'll see what Dr. Sheppard says.  Since we cannot have radiation a second time on the same breast, we know that we have to have a mastectomy on at least one breast.

Step 3 is either the implant surgery or just recovery.  No radiation and hopefully, no chemotherapy.  Doesn't really sound like I know the PLAN very well does it?

BUT, it sounds super simple, huh?  It's nothing at all for my God to take care of.  After all, it's all in God's PLAN, not mine.  I'm just waiting to see where He takes me.

By Grace Alone...

I'm just sayin'...

I haven't visited here since September of last year and I don't really know why. 

Life is still happening...in fact, it is rushing by like a raging river faster than I can catch the current.  Fall turned into winter which is just about to leap into spring again.  I watch Shadow growing old (she's almost 12 now and kind of lumbers around like she hurts when she walks and I want to tell her that I understand how she feels but somehow we tell these things to each other without words) and I look in the mirror and see the same thing in myself and it's OK.  I'm OK with all that.  Other people fight it.  I don't...after fighting cancer, I wear my lines of age gratefully.  (no, that word wasn't gracefully...lol..but gratefully)  Ever thankful that God has given me more time with my family.

I guess I'm visiting this page because tomorrow is another of those mammogram visits and, no matter how many times I go there, they are terrifying to me.  I know it's been 3 and a half years since the previous diagnosis but it doesn't stop the fear of having to go through all that over again.  I mean, just imagine if every time you walked down a certain road, there was a bully ready to beat up on you, would you really want to walk down that road again?  I'm thinking not.  Mammograms are just big bullies to me. 

I'm just sayin'...

By Grace Alone -

Teresa

Been a While...But She's BAAACCCKKK

Yup, it's been a while....

Tom and I have been busy with redesigning the office.  It was supposed to be HIS project.  HIS hobby.  Somehow, it became my project too.  Well, actually, it was fun. 

Truth be known, I started the project. 

When we lived in Florida, we had a huge office.  The office had two LARGE desks, desk chairs, two bookcases, and two file cabinets (as well as ourselves and Shadow) that fit in it.  There were also two high back chairs for reading.  It was sweet.

When we moved to Alabama, we downsized a bit since we were no longer supporting a passel of children.  (Whoo whoo!!)  Well, along with the downsizing, came a smaller office.  Hmmm...so, the office furniture no longer fit.  We could get the two desks in and the file cabinets (and once again ourselves and Shadow) but none of the other stuff.  We left it that way for about 6 years then all of a sudden I put on the brakes.  I'd had enough.  Too hard to clean, tired of bumping into each other, and no matter how I arranged it, it basically sucked.  Ugh...there had to be a better way.  So, I turned on my ultra huge chemo riddled brain and came up with the floating desk idea.  I went online and saw these little tiny floating desks they were offering.  No way was that gonna cut it for me. 

The MAN needed to get out his power tools and come up with a ROOM SIZED floating desk for me.  I knew he could do it.  I had total faith in him.  After all, I had the entire idea in my ultra huge chemo riddled brain.  All he had to do was dive in there and get it out.  (Good luck, honey!) 

I gave him my general idea (nothing on the floor and everything attached to the wall) which I think he heard much like Charlie Brown's teacher talking and started off on his own track.  He started researching brackets, drawing up designs, cutting up paper into dimensional layouts of the room until he had it just right.  The he found the brackets he wanted.  The big heavy duty kind where two of them can  hold 1000 lbs.  (What did he think we were going to do on this desk?????)  He ordered 17 (SEVENTEEN) of these brackets to hold up this amazing desk that he was going to build. 

I'm thinking...WOW...That's 8,500 pounds of STUFF we can load on that desk.  Is that super cool, or what?  We could put baby elephant bookends on the desk if we wanted to since the average baby elephant only weighs 250 lbs.  (Stuffed of course...ewwww....) 

In case you are interested, and I know you must be or you wouldn't still be reading this dribble that I am writing...here are some pictures of the process.  Somehow, he got to do all the fun stuff with the power tools like measuring, sawing the pieces, and routering and I got to do all the drudgery like sanding, staining, and varnishing.  (Now who has the big brain...looks like someone in this house is smarter than I am...)



Starting with the Cleats



1000 pound Brackets are next.  :)



First Board Cut



Nice Router Cut Made.  :-)



Staining the underside of the Desk



Fastening Down the Desk



Looking at the Underside.

First Look at Backsplash

Top Stained

Grommets In Place

Backsplash In Place

Moved In...WHOO WHOO!!!

New Pictures Hung

 

So, you might be asking, what's next?  Well, He is going to make some kick panels to cover the brackets (that I get to sand, stain and varnish) and then some drawers (gotta have junk drawers)  (that I get to sand, stain and varnish)  You'll notice that there isn't anything on the walls ABOVE our computers...that is because I have other thoughts in my ultra huge chemo riddled brain for those walls.  :)

 

By Grace Alone -

 

Teresa