so sweet...

I just had to show you these sweet towels I found in Target on Thursday...aren't they darling?? I'm not one to really get into "decorating" for Valentine's day (I save that for Thanksgiving/fall & Christmas) but when I saw these towels, I thought maybe I'd change my mind about that... :)

Now I'm thinking I'd like to get some kind of "heart thing" to hang on my front door (since I have such a nice front door now). I could definitely have something "lovey" sitting on my coffee table, should I see (or make) something that would be "just perfect".

After all...what the world needs now is love...sweet love...

shop drawers...

Forgive me. I hope you guys haven't given up on me posting any more to this blog... Those of you who know what "line of work" I'm in, you know it's already getting busy for me. That's the true reason I haven't posted in awhile (that and the fact that there hasn't been much going on around the house in the way of projects). I work in a CPA office so I'm up to my eyeballs in quarterly payroll reports, W-2s and 1099s. And it's only going to get worse, so just be aware that my posts will probably be few & far between...don't give up on me!

With that being said, there is one project that's being worked on more frequently than all the rest and that's the setup in Jeff's shop (a.k.a. the garage - where my car should be parked...). You've seen the cabinet structure he's put in place in this post; well, now he's working on drawers to put in for all his "stuff". They're turning out pretty fast because he cut all the pieces first:

Then, he worked on putting them all together, one right after the other:


When you do that, they go together pretty quickly and you end up with this:


Nice, huh? I got him a drawer jig for his birthday in October and it has come in pretty handy with all these drawers he's installing. The drawers give him options and are a nice way to store things since he can pull them out to see what's stashed in the back...you can't always do that with a cabinet.

I'm really proud of how often he's been going out there to work on this project. I know he'll be so glad to have drawers & cabinets in place to put his stuff. He'll have a better handle on where everything is and he'll be able to work much more efficiently on his woodworking projects. What woodworking projects, you ask? Oh, believe me...he has quite a "list" of things...he'll got LOTS of practice on LOTS of different things... :D