…but her son said, “Hey, Mom! Let’s go blow bubbles and jump on the trampoline with the parachute guy!” His forces of persuasion were far too strong, and so she abandoned her dreams of miter saws and nail guns in favor of giggles and bouncing (luckily for the girl she was married to a very skilled man who enjoyed building all the items on her wishlist!).
* Yep, I’m wearing sweatpants and Muk Luks. The world must have be ending if I ventured out of the house in sweats (actually, I was starting to feel like I was getting sick). I totally wear those shabby Muk Luk boots every.single.day. I got them right after Thanksgiving, but they look like I’ve had them since 1996. When winter is over that they will probably need to be surgically removed from my feet. It’s a bad addiction. Anyway, back to the story…
The girl really wanted to seal the wood and keep its natural finish, but it looked far too out of place among all of the other darker wood furniture in their home. The girl was disappointed and unispired because she didn’t want another piece of dark wood furniture in her house, but she also didn’t want to cover up the grain of that lovely wood with paint.
Unfortunately, she didn’t need to worry about having to make that decision any time soon. She was struck down by the horrible flu, and the lovely empty bookcase sadly sat alone and waiting to be finished for the next week.
When the girl was finally able to drag herself out of bed, she went straight away to the extra wood scraps and started experimenting with different washes, stains and painted finishes. Her brain was fried from the illness, so she wasted an entire afternoon covering both sides of six pieces of wood with about twenty different color options. All that experimentation led to nothing but more indecisiveness, so she left the final decision to the guy who weilded the power tools.
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