I love gel stain, I put on a pair of rubber gloves, grab a piece of cut-up teeshirt and have at it. I punched out all the desk pieces and stained them. I stained a bit of siding in case I was going to need to make chamois hinges, which I didn't want to do.

By bedtime the stain was dry enough to glue the acetate "panes" on the doors; I use white glue for this because it dries clear.

I glued the sides to the back of the desk and I glued in the big shelf, then I began assembling the "cubby".

I finished the cubby this AM and assembled it into the desk back.

Next I glued the drawer fronts to the desk front and set them in the vise to dry. Then I glued the tiny brass hinges to the sides of the door and the inner edge of the slant front with super glue gel. When the drawer fronts were dry I glued amber seedbeads to each side for "pulls" and glued the front to the rest of the desk; I also glued beads to the slant front and to each door.

I glued the doors and slant front on several times, two courses of *magic* words and one feral cat later they are "behaving".

Next I disassembled another polyester tie and gathered all the punched out pieces of arm chair (2). I made a paper pattern of the upper half of the chair back, the upper half of the side, and the seat, and cut them out of posterboard and also some 1/8" cellulose foam packing material, and glued one foam piece to each card piece.