Two Drawer Makeover Part 1

Hello dear readers, yes, popping in again spontaneously. Hoping all are having a good week thus far the weekend is not far off for a bit of relaxing if in winter area's....actually weekends are just all around amazing...I have been dabbling in many different materials lately. Actually the move has still got me a bit unsettled both emotionally and spiritually. I feel a bit unbalanced by it all..for some reason when we age we think or feel things should get calmer and easier during changes. For me I thought it would be... never did I think it would leave me feeling as I do. Then again I am a very sensitive person and tend to absorb life like a sponge. That is I feel nearly everything going on around  me in life and even from those close to me. I also find as I get older the less people in general I interact with personally the better off I am. It just seems there have been so many issues and problems in the World too, I am sure I am not the only one who has felt or noticed it. I don't really know where we are headed in this World I only hope it's better than it has been. I know, I know, everyone seems to be talking about it so yes I will stop.

I found a couple drawers that belonged to an old bathroom counter which was sadly beyond repair..not much one can do with plywood that is way beyond help...as handy as I am at working with tools and building furniture...there was nothing I thought would help. So, I took these two adorable little drawers and cut them down.

Bare with me as I do settle my spirit get back on track to knitting and a bit of crocheting. Sitting still right now is not good for a gal like me... whee...my mind just doesn't shut down and it's not on creative things right now. 

So...back to the drawers...I plan on sealing the holes tonight where the handles settled. I am sure by now most are thinking okay seen this time and again on Pinterest...I hear ya...Pinterest is a site I do love to troll, however, I love it more for yarn ideas and patterns. It's funny when I think of Pinterest or for that the Internet I go back in my mind to the days where none of this existed. Craft supplies where hard to find, basically one had just a department store to try and find something. Now it seems its available everywhere and makes it tough to do original things. But, I have not plan here...did you expect to hear one? Nope not this gal...when it comes to reworking items making them into something new...I tend to go with the flow...let my mind take it day by day where it want the item to go...hence the drawers. I kind of have something in mind...but knowing me...it will take on a life of it's own. This is part 1 of the drawer project...stay tuned in as they take on whatever they are meant to be other their original design. In the meantime keep creating and watch ABC tonight the girl's are back...Olivia Pope and Annalise Keating aka Scandal and How to get away with Murder...Love, love, love these shows...Thanks for popping in Blessings to all.

Recycling Two Desks Two Chairs Project

It's been raining a lot so much so my garden has taken a beating this season. I treated the garden yesterday for blight and powdery mildew from all the rain. I so wish we could somehow send it

out to the west coast as they need it badly. God Bless them all I hope rain finds it way there soon. In the meantime I took two old school desks out of the garage and recycled both into a bird feeder and working on a coffee table. I plan on adding two drawers to the coffee table which are the bottoms to the two old school desk, not sure yet about the top, but am leaning toward reclaimed wood from two Adirondack old chairs foot stools. I am turning both of the Adirondack chairs into a hanging swing. The bird feeder is done and I have already began the swing. Did some wood removing have sawing to do adding wood on the bottom and across the back. Then I will lightly sand and paint white. I am all about recycling, in our area alone there are way too many trees being cut down, and nature is in need of those trees for many reasons...we need them too for our own survival. If you know where there is land with lots of trees or a wooded area for sale, purchase it so no one can build on it...or plant a tree when you can...we are destroying our planet for future life...including our children and grandchildren. We need to stop thinking just about now and start thinking about the future of our children. We are such a throw away society here in the United States and that needs to stop. We can do this people, we can change things...your children need a better future. So with that said, I will keep posting the results of the coffee table and the swing. I am thinking of using the wood from the foot stools that came with the chairs on top of the coffee table. Will see how it goes and by all means people recycle whenever you can it's amazing what one can create.