By Showandah Terrill

It could be you! Or you and your friends, your class, your club. What door, you ask? The one that Habitat for Humanity will provide to you free of charge when you submit your completed application and sign the guidelines. Your job is to decorate it — paint, decoupage, photos, fabric — the door has to stay intact, but it doesn’t have to function as a door when it’s finished.

It can be just about anything — a dining table, a headboard, a changing table … or an interior door, for that matter. You figure it out. Your imagination is the only limiting factor. Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County is celebrating its 25th anniversary, so the theme is “25” and you have to work that into the door somehow. Incorporate your favorite hobby, your favorite team, your favorite poem, your favorite wildlife, your favorite recipe … again, reach inside and find your passion, then transfer it to the door.

Habitat is hoping for four or five doors submitted by the Forks/West End/tribal communities and I have no reason to think we can’t do that and more. The doors have to be completed by Feb. 15, at which time we are hoping to display them at the RAC and other places throughout the community, along with an artist biography for each.

There will be prizes and an artists reception and preview on Friday, April 15, at Sunland in Sequim. On April 16 at the Taste of the Peninsula fundraiser for Habitat, the doors will be auctioned off to the highest bidder and the money will go to help build or refurbish homes throughout our communities.

I know the holidays are upon us right now, but what about when they’re over? You’ve swept up the last of the ornaments, found where the dog hid the tree skirt, gotten the kiddos back to school and there you stand … or, more likely, there you sit.

The urge to bake has definitely passed for the time being. You need something to do — an artistic outlet for all those creative juices — something to stave off the winter blahs. Well, here you go! Think of this like grandkids — do something wonderful with it and then send it somewhere else to bring someone else joy.

Our community is full of creative people. Let’s strut our stuff. If you go online at www.habitatclallam.org, you will find all the guidelines and an application.

If it doesn’t make sense on its own, contact at colleen@habitatclallam.org. Have fun!

A blessed holiday season from your Forks Core Team: Shele, Barb, Pastor Pam and John, Colleen, Bill and Showandah. And from Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County. Don’t forget your door!