with your hands

[quantumchick]

My grandma decided to give us the cedar hope chest that my grandfather gave her for Christmas the year they got married as a wedding gift. Cory and I met up at her place with my mom today to go through its contents and take it home. It is *gorgeous*, but it needed more than a little love. We thought it was going to need a full sanding and re-

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[sarah_p]

Are you up now? I want to call, but it's past my 11:00 warning mark, so...let me know if you are. And if you're in bed, carry on! :D

[quantumchick]

Haha-- we went to bed early last night actually. But we need to catch up this week and, you know, see each other!

[wmelephant]

That's such a wonderful gift! I'm glad the TLC with Murphey's oil soap cleaned it up without having to go through the whole sanding/finishing process.

[quantumchick]

Yeah. It's not exactly "perfect," but I kind of like the idea of keeping some of its history intact. :)