BACK TO REALITY & SOME BOARDS....

Well, I'm back.  It was a wonderful vacation, however, I could have done without coming back to a major snowstorm.  Apparently, we picked the wrong week to be away....


I was totally thinking of this......

the entire time I was driving, white knuckled, through the snowstorm....sigh....


But I digress, I wanted to say a big thank you to my guest bloggers, Jessica from Arcadian Lighting & Kelly of Jax Does Design for doing a fab job while I was away.


I have a few little tidbits I wanted to share with you, so I'd thought I'd put them together on this post.


First of all, in our other cottage, we put in the wood butcher block counters from Ikea and when my hubby cut out the counter for the double sink, I had him keep the piece and I then used it as a cutting board for seven years.  The plan was that the edges would be sanded down, but seven years later, it still had not happened.


Fast forward, to this January, when my parents were visiting the new cottage and my Dad, bless him, saw my cutting board.  He asked me how I would like it finished.  We decided to do two cutting boards as it was a large piece and kind of awkward.  


Of course, in the rush to give it to him, I forgot to take a before picture.  But I'm sure you can imagine, it was a roughly cut rectangular piece of wood with very uneven edges.


And here's how it came back to me.  First, a simple cutting board with lovely bevelled edges.

 And number two, with more lovely bevelled edges, grooves for any juices to be caught in and a raised edge/handle. 

My Dad is so talented, I love them!  I know I said I'd share a few tidbits but they were making this post far too long.  I'll save them for another post really soon.