A Chair to Remember

Thank God for Tea! What would the world do without tea? Today I'm sipping some Jasmine Green.

My sophomore year of high school, I was one of two girls signed up for shop class. Admittedly, the only reason I took the class was to avoid taking a second science; I never imagined that I would ever step foot in a shop again. But as life tends to do, it surprised me. At my university, all interior design majors are required to take a furniture design class in which the final project is to design and build a chair. You'd think that since I took shop in high school this would be an easy feat right? Wrong! As much of high school learning tends to do, all my knowledge of tools had left me as soon as I crossed the stage at graduation.

After about two months of designing, redesigning, and hard work (along with a nice pair of biceps from all that sanding), this is what I came up with...