Mine are mostly small things -- like using a glass compote to hold cotton balls in the bathroom -- or a cut glass tumbler to hold q-tips. A hinged CD holder (similar to the tissue box above but a double version) used as a spot to store extra TP. I have a dresser that is a TV stand for our exercise room and the drawers have my gift wrap rolls and ribbons. A home office armoire that was going to be my craft and gift wrap station became a china cabinet when my dad moved and I suddenly acquired another set of china and crystal and I wasn't ready to make decisions on getting rid of anything. I have an old radio cabinet that I cleaned up and planned to put a new shelf and door in the top, but the stained glass panel hasn't been made. I'm thinking about painting it and redirecting it's new life for another room now. Another one I haven't done buy we've talked about a couple of times is to put a pull out bed in a window seat to add a guest bed in our gameroom. I think the inflating mattresses are going to keep that one from happening -- take less room and are probably cheaper and more comfortable now that we no longer have a sofa with the pullout mechanism to repurpose. If a new thread is started, we should try to link this one at the top so these ideas and photos aren't lost -- st least as long as we can.

I bought two pieces from them a large 5 by 5 foot island (3 inches end grain select walnut and a hutch top 3 cm side grain walnut. Both pieces are gorgeous and they charged me a third of what a local company wanted. It got splotchy on the trip to Georgia, plus I had to leave it outside for a week because our contractor had a terrible personal emergency. Still once it was waxed with the food grade wax sent along with the countertop, it was the most beautiful countertop I have ever seen. My kitchen cabinet builder (a true artisan carpenter in his 70s) is a gruff man who is very polite but not much gets him very animated and he did a double take when he saw the countertops. He called his son to come look at it. He smiled he rans his hand over the surface with satisfaction and asked me, "Do you have any idea, how long it took someone to make this thing? All those pieces have to be the exact same size and shape with no tolerance for mistakes." He also said, "That is a beautiful piece of wood." It was fun seeing him so excited about the countertop when he so often seems underwhelmed. Plus it made me so proud of my counters. They are really beautiful. I have a Boos 18x18 walnut chopping block and it isn't one bit prettier. Blockheads Blocktops are an incredible value. It does take awhile to have it made and sent but it was worth it. Everything in my kitchen took a long time to make but for something special it is worth it. These countertops deserve the overused word "bespoke." Also the people who helped me were the nicest, kindest most generous people. I couldn't be happier.

The Winged Victory of Samothrace is a beautiful 2nd-century BC sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory). It has been prominently displayed at the Louvre since 1884 and is one of the most famous sculptures in the world. It is estimated to have been created around the year 200 BC and is 8 feet high and made of marble. After visiting the Louvre earlier this fall, Brad fell in love with Winged Victory, and after returning home used a 3D printer to create a miniature version that he and my daughter, Jaime, can display in their home. I'm adding a few pictures of the process. Brad's winged victory was created in multiple sections of various bright colored plastic material (whatever he happened to have on hand - color doesn't matter since the finsihed product will be painted and finished to look like the original marble statue). In one photo, he has incuded a wine bottle for size comparison, so you can see his model is quite small.

I also posted this on my Instagram, and someone said she knew a few friends who have 3D printers so she will let them know. Lisa, your daughter is one of our front-line heroes, and we want to protect them as much as we can. I don't know what is the hospital's process for reusing masks every time they take off the masks. One of the nurses mentioned that they just take off the mask and put it in a bag outside a room. However, if they don't use a new bag every time they take the masks off, they will contaminate the inside side of the mask that facing the face. I wear a mask when I go grocery shopping because it's impossible to always stay 6 ft from people. When a cashier hands a receipt to me, she is less than 6ft from me. I keep my mask in a one gallon zip lock bag then put it in a brown bag so people don't see what inside (I read someone broke into a lady's car to steal 2 small size hand sanitizers, lol.) I also put a few clean zip lock bags in the brown bag. After leaving the grocery store, I used hand sanitizer to clean my hands, then carefully remove the mask and put it in a new zip lock bag. The reason for this so that I don't contaminate the inside side of the mask (by cleaning my hand with hand sanitizer before removing the mask and using a new zip lock bag to store the mask.) In theory, we should throw the mask away after each use, however, with the mask shortage, that's not doable. I hope your daughter's hospital uses a clean bag each time she takes off the mask. However, if they don't, she can bring her own one gallon bags and take care of it. Kristine and Rosylady, thank you. I believe each one of us can help in different ways :) Helen