And so, at this time, I greet you, not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you, now and forever, the day breaks and the shadows flee away.

Lafabbrica is an Italian company that has taken as one of its operating philosophies nothing less than the manufacture of luxury for the home and with the aptly named Jewels tiles they have done just that.

Hanex Acrylic Solid Surface is manufactured in the United Kingdom by a firm that creates modern kitchen furniture and countertops from this most innovative material, but I’m happy to say that their products are available in the USA, especially their countertops, which I want to focus on today.

If it were in my province to give whatever I wanted, without restrictions as to what it would cost, or taking it a bit further, even the actual practicalities of the gift itself, what I would most like to give is employment to our close friends who are in the same boat my wife was in for so long.