That Moment You Breathe New Life Into an Old Piece

Have I mentioned lately how great Bill is with his hands?  I've got the husband that all junking loving souls dream of.  I figured this out early on in our relationship.  I'd say I had a vision for something in my home and it would be done a couple of hours later.  I don't know about y'all but I've been in plenty of relationships where someone would say they "could do it" and six years later I was still waiting.  Thank you Lord for giving me a man that takes my vision, runs with it immediately and knocks it out of the ball park. 

I had a two car garage that I could get both cars into once.  Then we started As The Crows Fly.  Bill would get the garage half empty and then go off to work for a couple of weeks imploring me not to fill it while he's gone.  I'd give him that "I wouldn't dream of it darling" look that all wives perfect...  Then of course I'd go junking over the weeks he was gone and quietly fill the garage with pieces that I just can't imagine society losing forever.  I'd pick him up from the airport and drive him home.  He'd open the garage door to get into the house, see the wall of furniture, look at me with a stern "what the heck did you do look", (my eyes responding with a who me?) sigh, close the door and head to the front of the house... where really... civilized people use the front door right?  Yeah that's my story and I'm sticking to it. 

Bill lamented sometime last year that I don't leave him love notes anymore... so I pointed out that I do... look at each of the pieces of furniture in the garage "Honey, I'd love you to do this..."  Thank God he loves me because he puts up with my crazy...  but he secretly loves playing in the garage... he plays music, pours a drink and gets crafty... AND my obsessions allow him to have his... TOOLS.

So we were really busy over the holidays and I didn't really have a chance to continue my hoarding in the garage... somehow Bill has gotten to pieces I shoved in there last year and is currently making them fabulous!!!  While I was working on the patio set, he was painstakingly taking apart this old vanity, gluing, doweling and fixing all her joints.  We agreed we wanted to keep some of her wood stained but other parts of her needed to be painted.  I heard him scream in the garage a few times in frustration so I'd go and give him a kiss and say "I believe in you baby I know you can do this!!!"  He would give me the evil eye but continue on with his project.

Today he finished that project - a creamy painted and stained beauty that would look lovely in anyone's bedroom.  We kept her with all of her original hardware... but we kept the bill of sale for two Herndon cows we found in her from 1960.  Those little scraps of history make us giggle.  But I digress... this beauty too will be available at the Queen of Hearts in Alpharetta on March 1st!  Stay tuned... he's already got another project up on the bench.  I'm soo excited!!!