The Finished Product- An Estate Sale Find

It's done. 

Finally.

Ok, actually, it's been done for almost a month. 

But still.

Like it?

For some reason the drawers look dusty in the above picture, but I promise, it's not. It's just weird lighting.

It's home is in a corner of our kitchen that would otherwise be empty. The piece itself is actually pretty short, so I found a little lantern for it.

 Here's a picture of it in the context of our kitchen. The patio door is on the left, the kitchen table on the right.

 

I had stained the inside of the drawers in order to get rid of the smell associated with the piece and so they were kind of tacky, even after being allowed to dry for a few weeks while we were in Europe. Hence, the need for shelf liner paper covering even the sides of the drawer. 

Also, I'll admit it...my stain job looked TERRIBLE. 

I took the drawers out of the unit and stained the inside of that as well and...there's a reason I didn't take a picture of that. It's not pretty. But thankfully, how the stain looks doesn't matter at all, because you can't see any of it.

I found the shelf liner at the Dollar Tree. Even I'm surprised they had a nice design like this and I'm not ashamed to say- it might be one of my favorite stores. 

And the smell is gone thanks to the stain, so it's a win-win. Pretty drawers, no gross smell.

I'm kind of amazed that I managed to turn out a piece of furniture that I'll not only allow in my house, but that I'm happy to have in my house. Still not sure how that happened. And it's useful, too!

So, what do you think of it? Willing to take on a project of your own?

An Upgrade?

If you read this post then you know that I frequently have to move around to different desk locations throughout my work day.

However, the court commissioner's office was recently renovated and reorganized and now I have been upgraded to my own work space.

But, is this really an upgrade?

The judges don't seem to think so and are always offering for me to work in their offices so I can have more space.

But how can I beat having not just one, but two desks all to myself? Now that's a tough one.

Best Courtroom T-Shirt

I heard a story from my boss recently that I thought was too interesting not to pass on. 

A couple of years ago he was holding a temporary restraining order hearing or something similar, probably involving either a stalker or ex-boyfriend, and a guy (the respondent) came in with a very classy t-shirt.

It read: I'm not a doctor but I'll take a look anyway.

My boss thought that, although the t-shirt had no bearing on his decision, that perhaps the t-shirt was not the best wardrobe choice for the particular subject matter of the hearing.

What a person wears to court and how they act sends a lot of signals to the judge regarding credibility. I think I'd have to agree with my boss that the shirt was not the best clothing option...would you?