Wood projects can become special family treasures.
They certainly have at our home.
Doing any wood project can be great fun and be a great addition to your home.
Also many woodworkers use their talents in the woodworking shop as gifts.
These can be very special coming from a loved one and can create a lasting family memory.
We are very blessed with many such "gifts" ourselves.
Our home is full of family heirlooms that have great meaning and great memories.
Many of these are hand-made woodworking pieces.
Our breakfast room table was built by my brother-in-law and I, way back before he was my brother-in-law! I designed and built our home with a lot of help, especially my father.
Jackie has decorated it to perfection (Maybe I can get her to do a web site featuring it one day).
On the walls are paintings done by my mother, Jackie, and some other special people.
And, oh, all those portraits of our babies! And pictures of them as they have grown placed down the hall as well as other special places.
We also have, like many of you I'm sure, our children's "projects" framed and hung up for all to enjoy.
There are also many very special hand-built pieces from Jackie's dad and grandfather.
Desks and Hope Chest's that are so "fine built" that you can not imagine them to be made by an individual small woodworker today.
They are works of art in themselves.
The time and pains-taking detail are an unbelievable labor of love.
And it goes on with many more heirlooms, some of wood and some not.
I hope you will see your future wood project as what it can be - a family treasure for generations to come.