Because I'm like a proud momma...

Claude and I finished building our bookcases a couple of weeks ago, and considering they took us so long to finish, I feel they deserve a post of their very own. We started making them a couple of weeks before we put the water feature (read: flood) in our bedroom, hallway, livingroom, etc. Needless to say, that put a bit of a crimp in our plans of getting them done in about 2 months. Once our lives settled down a bit, and we had some needed down time, we started working on them again in the fall. We finally got them up on the wall in December (with some strongman help from Tony!) and finished putting the last coats of wipe-on polyurethane on them at the beginning of this month.

I now give you...
drumroll, please...

Our beautiful new bookshelves!!!