A Make-do.................

I woke up this morning thinking about Lisa's family and after taking Luke to his class at Mother's Day out I had to call and talk to my mom and talk it out...

I didn't know Lisa personally other than when I'd purchase a pattern from her or leave a comment on her blog, but her passing has weighed on my heart....Last night I picked up the card she had sent in my last pattern i got in October....I had liked the black angel on it and had kept it laying on my table all these months....The sweet message ( on the back) of thanks made me so sad as I reread it over and over last night....

Perhaps the passing of Uncle Bill, Lisa, little Rob, and the soon to be anniversary I shared (here ) is really too much....As wonderful as life can be, It can equally be unbearable at times....it just takes time for broken hearts to heal....Prayers for everyone!!!

So, today I spent my morning trying to keep my mind busy and doing something I've been wanting to do....


Do you remember that big box i brought home the week before Christmas?....I got it the day I was at my parents home celebrating an early Christmas....Well, this entire time it has been sitting under my sideboard...Last week, when I was doing all my cleaning I pulled it out and sat it on the farm table....it sat there for days....Then I sat it on it's side in the floor and let it sit there for days...I love the old weathered drab attic surface wood, but couldn't decide on just one thing to use it for....Then, I decided that I'd been wanting to make a make-do cabinet with a osnaburg curtain on it....Perfect to hide away all my primitive magazines and decorating books and give me more room in my big cabinet by my worktable....Sooooo, this is what I came up with....I tweaked, tweaked, and tweaked some more....So, for the time being the last picture with the big trencher bowl on it is how I will leave it for now....I also got the trencher the same day as the box....So what do you think????