What Potential!

When we first got these old cabinet drawers, we didn't remove the glass handles. However, we knew there was great potential in the "empty vessels of storage"! For a while I used one of the drawers to hold video games and equipment. On Saturday one of my sisters who is here for a visit, took the handles off of the drawers and soaked them in bleach and scrubbed them. Don't they look so pretty? I tried to get a picture of the light reflecting off the glass, but I must not have had the camera on the right setting. I would just love to have a bowl full of these beauties sitting right here on the cabinet. Old glass is beautiful to me. It has an aged depth and quality that you don't see in newer pieces. I wonder if it is the age or the ingredients used to make the glass? Come to think of it, sometimes people become more beautiful as they age too, if they allow the circumstances of life to reflect a quality of beauty from their countenance and attitude. I hope as I age I don't become hard and brittle or harsh and crackled. I believe I can choose to be joyful and cheerful, reflective of good and wholesome qualities.

After all the scrubbing and shining, my sister put the handles (or are they pulls?) on our old cabinet doors. If you look closely you will see the light rays reflecting from them onto the doors. Aren't they perfect there? Thank you so much for helping me, sweet sis. I couldn't have done it without you. You know that already! Right now I only have four glass handles, but I'm on the lookout for more!

Thank you to everyone who reads my blog and sends me emails and tells me in person, even if you don't leave a comment. During this amazing season in the life of our family, I appreciate your friendship and comments so much. I read each one, and don't take any of you for granted. I guess life will slow down eventually and we will find a new normal! Right?

Have a "toodle ~ ooo" kind of Tuesday.

Love, Rachel

P.S. What's "toodle ~ ooo"? Oh well, make it whatever you want it to be!