I had planned to put up a recipe today. I have it all typed and entered, I’ve purchased the necessary ingredients, I was ready to roll… until I just decided I didn’t want to make it. Not. Today.

The deal is, I’m in the middle of my three-week Wednesday night series of classes at Les Gourmettes and after prepping all morning and afternoon yesterday and then teaching last night, I just don’t have it in me to make the dish I planned to make today. It’s as if the little bratty girl inside me said, “No, I don’t want to do it and you can NOT make me!!!”

Alright, you spoiled 3-year-old, don’t cook today!  Instead, I’m gonna show you what I did with that lead glass window I purchased last month at Sweet Salvage. When I first posted about it, I said, “And I seriously have no idea why I had to have this 5-foot tall lead glass window or what the heck I’m going to do with it! Any ideas from you creative people out there?!?”  Not one of you came to my rescue with an ounce of help, so I had to go it on my own.  For the last 3 weeks, it has stood in a corner beneath my staircase. I’d pass it every day, asking myself, “Why did you buy that huge heavy thing and what the heck were you thinking?” 

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