This Little Piggy & Another Project

I have been wanting a pig cutting board for some time now since I saw the one on Char's blog. I love it when she posts Wood'n It Be Nice Wednesday Ideas. Speaking of that this pig cutting board was one that she shared awhile back. Don't you just love it? I wanted it to go in my kitchen somewhere so I stained him dark walnut to tie in with my cabinet knobs that I recently re-did. Here is my little piggy before I stained him.

Here is the little piggy after I stained him. The neat thing about this project is that I used the jigsaw for the very first time on this project and I am definitely pleased with the way he turned out. I love him and he is definitely a "Perfectly Prim Pig" (say that 5 times fast). Now to find just the right spot in my kitchen for my little pig! I am sure he will look too cute anywhere I put him and for him being my first project with the jigsaw..... I am pretty daggone happy with him!
Here is another project that I am currently working on. Yep, my MIL asked if I would re-finish this dresser for her so this is yet another project that is currently in the works. I started sanding it last night and stopped in the middle to get a before picture. You know me and my BEFORE and AFTER's (lol). I am obsessed with them and I love to see how they have changed and I know for a fact that this dresser needs a BIG TIME prim job done ASAP! So, hopefully I can get it sanded and re-finished to look prim. I am just not sure what color she wants to do it yet so I guess we will just have to wait and see how prim she really wants it. That is one thing about my MIL........ we don't have the exact taste in things, but I guess everyone is entitled to their own likes and dislikes (right)?
Hope you all are having a WONDERFUL week so far. We are pretty excited for these weeks to pass because in just a few short weeks (13 days to be exact) we are leaving for Myrtle Beach. Cameron keeps asking me when we are leaving and I keep trying to explain to him, but of course he is too young to understand. I started making a list of things we need to take, buy at the store and just by doing that - it made me so much more excited! Yep, I am pretty excited. In the meantime....... I am going to try to get some more projects done before I leave.