Strikes my fancy

When we first opened the restaurant we had nothing to put glasses on for storage (you'll see exactly how crucial that was when you get to the last picture). I found 2 bookshelves in a matter of days opening weekend, but couldn't find something I really liked. About a month into opening 2 of the 2-cube storage units were bought from the local hardware store. I HATED them. Thought they looked like 2-cube storage units from a local hardware store! Then one day while perusing Pinterest I saw "homemade wine glass storage" options. And then the wheels started turning. I would literally stand in the raw wood aisles at Lowes and Home Depot and try to build a wine glass rack in my mind. I even bought a premade one and while I was checking out the cashier told me he thought I could build that (what else was I buying that made him think that?!). But that's all the encouragement I needed. I took that box back to work and studied the picture for over an hour and then...

John Grisham shifts his focus to baseball! The story centers around Paul Tracey, the son of Warren Tracey a Mets pitcher in the early 70's. Warren throws a pitch that changes the career of a rookie player that Paul really admires. This is a story of Paul righting that wrong. The story has lots of baseball terminology, but at the root of it is a boy's (man) making peace with who his parent is. Summer = baseball, ice cream, eating on the back porch and road trips. This book has 3 of those 4 elements. An easy summer/beach read for sure!

After Before Lets face it. Three is really the loneliest number for so many reasons. Only two people fit on an amusement park ride at a time, most of the time. Only two people can sit in the front seat, unless it is a truck (and NO ONE in their right mind truly wants that middle seat). "Third wheel" is a term on purpose. Three is especially awkward for chairs. Who only wants THREE? I am not even sure where these chairs were from, but D is good about bringing home other people's junk. And thankfully, he believes in me. :-) You know what I did first right? Sand, sand, sand. These chairs were peeling black, yellow, maroon and metal. Not really a great color combination all together. So after sanding it down, I painted them black. These were the seats it came with (not the cushion, just the board.) I added cushions, which I had left over from the settee project. Then I used leftover indoor/outdoor material and recovered them. Not too shabby. We took them to Burlington, but go...