Recipe Box

Good day!

I hope your day is going well.

Today I'm showing you the beautiful recipe box

my brother made for my daughter for her bridal shower.

Each guest wrote out a favorite recipe for Kelsie and 

brought it to the shower.
I thought it would be nice to have a recipe box to put them

into, so I requested that my brother make her one.

I gave him the size I needed and off he went, 

designed it and made it.

These are the pictures he sent me when he had it finished.

I think he did such a beautiful job.  I never knew he had 

this talent, because he never had the time to do any woodworking

before he retired.

My sister in law got the dividers for the box, so it

would be ready to go.

He even has his own brand to mark his work with.

One of the amazing things is that all the wood that he's

been working with is his old privacy fence from his yard.

Several years ago they needed a new fence and he kept 

a lot of the wood to use "someday, for something"

Now he has the time and is making beautiful things with it.

Amazing what you can do if you have a little vision.

Here is a picture of Kelsie at her 
"virtual gift opening"

showing her recipe box and thanking

her Uncle.

I'm sure she will enjoy and use this box for years

to come and it will be handed down to the

next generation.

Thanks for joining me today for a while.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my talented

brother's work.

Come again soon,

until then;

have some vision!

 

What Can You Make From an Old Fence?

Hello fans!

Today I have something very different for you.

Not something I made, but what my brother, Kevin,

has been up to.

A couple summers ago, my brother and sister in law,

replaced their fence in the back yard.

Kevin decided to keep some of the old wood instead of trashing it.

My sis in law wasn't thrilled with that, thinking

it would sit for years and have nothing done with it.

Then Kevin retired and he needed a hobby,

so he went down and started working with some wood

in his basement.

Turns out he's pretty talented with it

This is a little bit of the wood he kept from the fence.

Not so pretty, eh?

But he worked with it and it's amazing what he did.

One day last summer I was visiting and he showed me a 

table he had made.  It was absolutely beautiful.

Just before Christmas he called and wanted to stop by,

saying he had something that belonged to me.
We had all been quarantining, so I was surprised that he was

stopping by.  I was working on some Christmas gifts when my

hubby called me and said to come up to see Kevin.

And there sat what you see below.  A beautiful table that

he made for me.  I was sworn to secrecy as he was making one

for our older brother also, but didn't have it finished yet.

Is this just beautiful or what?
And this picture doesn't do it justice either.

It now resides in our spare sitting room/bedroom where

I can see it every time I'm in the upstairs hall.

He also made boxes for his 3 grandchildren for Christmas,

although I don't have pictures of them.

But he did send me these other pictures.

His daughter in law, Vicki, said she'd like a jewelry box

so this is what he made for her.

He even did a tray for inside and flocked it.

Didn't he do a beautiful job.

Talent that I never knew my brother had.

Now I can't wait to see the table he has made

for my older brother, I have no doubt that it

will be just beautiful.
Kim and Sue are going to be so surprised and

happy when he gives it to them.

Well, but the time I post this, they will have it

as I said, I'm sworn to secrecy, so this post will

have to wait till I hear that he's given it to them.

Thanks for stopping by today,

so happy that you decided to spend some time with me.

Isn't it amazing what can be done with some old 

wood that could have just been tossed in the garbage?

I hope you'll come again soon.

Until then,

take a look at some of the old

"stuff" you have around and see what you can

create with it.