At long last, a place for Eli’s medals!
Taking a brief break from the NYC fun, I thought I’d share some shelves I made for Eli to hang his MANY sports medals. Eli clearly did not inherit his athletic prowess from me, but he s ure works hard to use all that he has to its best, and it shows. He had so many medals from Tae Kwon Do, Soccer, Cross Country, Wrestling, and Track and Field, that his lamp started to fall over (He had them draped around the shade.) So we came up with a plan to make shelves similar to what I put in our kitchen here and in the boys’ bedrooms in Camden: brackets from the big-box store plus pine planks. To hang the medals, though, I added cup hooks and dowels cut to length:
Supervised by the master of the house:
As J.K.Rowling so aptly wrote, “Mischief managed!”
June 6th, 2014 at 7:08 pm
Very impressive! Congratulations Eli.