Kitchen Window Trim

Today is the day to put the trim up around the 2 kitchen windows. We're going to build pretty small aprons for these windows since in the future I'll be laying tiles for the backsplash directly underneath them. You can see in the pictures that the wallboard is already put up for the tile backsplash. Still undecided about the stain I will use on this window trim. The wood we are using for our trim are pine 1x3's (we got free) and have plenty of imperfections which doesn't bother me much, but I was thinking the black
smudges on them would show through a little TOO much if I don't go with a dark stain. I had wanted to use natural stain, but if I do I
think our arms will fall off from all the sanding we would have to do. I'm really thinking of trying the walnut stain. Now on our kitchen island, we are using red oak for the top and pine for the trim, we sanded this trim down on the island and it looks so good. Last night I finished the 1st coat of stain on that and will post a pic of my work soon. I'm glad we're not getting a great hurry to get this finished, the best lesson we've learned since undertaking this project is patience. As you can see in these pictures, to the right is where I left off painting the wall last night with primer.