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Right: Judy McDonald at home in Sun
City Texas.
Below: To accent her home’s hearth,
Judy built an eyecatching fireplace
surround.
she needed the right tools and space to with a pine inlay and the third was a set In 2015, when Judy and Pace moved to
continue with her passion, so she set up of nesting tables of knotty hickory with Sun City, she joined the Woodworkers
a 300 square foot workshop in Palestine a turquoise inlay. Judy has never sold Club. One of her first projects was a new
which she supplied with a drill press, anything she’s made of wood, although front door and sidelights for their home.
planer, table saw, router table, sander, she did sell numerous items of stained Judy made the frame out of mahogany
band saw, jig saw and numerous small glass during the years she had a stained with various sizes of beveled rectangular
electric and hand tools. glass studio in Palestine. glass inserts joined together with copper
foil and lead solder.
Workshop complete, Judy began work on
a coffee table made of pine with a slate Next, the entry hall needed a table.
top followed by a series of porch swings Judy made it out of knotty alder with a
and Adirondack chairs. She kept some stunning blue lapis lazuli filling in the
for her home, and others were given to knots and crevices in the wood. When
her daughter and friends. As her three crushed and combined with epoxy, lapis
oldest grandchildren graduated from lazuli becomes gelatinous and fills in any
college, Judy made each of them an item opening. Another powdered stone Judy
of furniture. The first was a coffee table enjoys incorporating into her design is
made of oak with a parquet top. Next turquoise, which has an opaque, blue-to-
was another coffee table made of walnut green color.
Judy’s kitchen needed an island. Of course,
it had to fit the space and match a hutch
she previously purchased. For this project,
she chose alder wood and finished it with
a distressed cream glaze. Somewhere in
between these various projects, she also
built a fireplace surround in the living
room that has become the room’s focal
point.
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