Sunday morning I got
up ready to dive right back into my latest crafting projects. Before I went to bed on Saturday I had cut
some wood and trim pieces to size. I had
also glued two pieces of wood together to sit overnight and stained the trim.
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Trim pieces all sanded, stained and drying |
I also printed out
some cute graphics I'd put together on my laptop playing with font and adding a
pumpkin clipart image. I used gray color
on my font so it would be more muted and some peach colored stationery I had in
my paper stash. By Sunday morning I was
really excited to finish my project.
I used Modge Podge
to adhere my Harvest and Fall graphics onto each of the wood
pieces and allowed them to dry. Then I
turned them over onto my cutting board and used a razor knife to trim the paper
flush with the edges.
Using finish nails I
added the trim pieces to the edges of each sign.
Then back outside to
give them each a good coat of outdoor spray varathane.
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A simple little extra touch
(By the way, the girls have vetoed any staining or painting of the crate) |
Once they were dry I
added then to my fall porch decor along with a black basket I'd picked up at
Dollar Tree and filled with some plastic pumpkins I'd bought at Walmart about
five years ago. Last year I had decided
to purge these and at the last minute took them to my office to decorate. This year I dragged them back home for my
porch. I'm glad now I didn't send them
to the thrift store.
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These signs are all the rage right now |
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Super fun to make my own |
How cute is this?!
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A light sanding easily took off most of the finish |
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A couple coats of paint and some varathane |
The next project was to take an old frame I've had for nearly 30 years and give it a new
purpose. The finish was pretty worn so I
gave it a light sanding and two coats of black spray paint followed by a coat
of varathane.
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So cute! |
While the paint
dried I printed out a Fresh Eggs graphic I'd found on a free clipart site
online. I used gray paper instead of
white so it would be more muted. I didn't
want a glaring white page. I used my
paper cutter to get it sized for the 8" X 10" frame. After washing both sides of the glass with a
little window cleaner I fit it back into the frame along with my new graphic
design. Once the back was reattached to
the frame it was ready to hang.
I really love this
new addition to my kitchen.
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My rummage sale finds from last Saturday |
The last project for
the morning was to take my cute little yard sale find and spruce it up a
bit. One of the little pumpkins was
missing a nose so I used my hot glue gun and gave him a new one by placing a
blob where his nose used to be. Once it
set I used some acrylic paint I had in my craft stash and gave all of their
noses a refresh.
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I thought this was so stinking cute! |
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A little glob of hot glue to replace the missing nose |
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I picked this up at Hobby Lobby quite awhile ago I thought it would be perfect for this project |
I had removed the
bedraggled curling ribbon from it so I added some Trick Or Treat ribbon I had
picked up at Hobby Lobby several years ago.
How stinking cute is that? In
October I'll find a place to display it for Halloween. I think my 25¢ purchase turned out to be a
great investment.
Aww, very cute!
ReplyDeleteTania
Thank you Tania. Fun projects.
DeleteEverything looks great! I especially like the Fresh Eggs sign, that's really adorable. I have almost no wall space in my kitchen, so there's no place to hang anything, which is a bummer, but hey, that's also pretty thrifty, since I don't need anything! :)
ReplyDeleteThere you go! Look at all the $$ you'll save. ;0)
DeleteWhat is the name of the font for Harvest? Please! I love the curlicue "H".
ReplyDeleteI used Palace Script MT in Word.
DeleteThanks 4 sharing your craft projects. They are very pretty. After seeing your dollar tree pumpkin make over. I stopped at my local dollar tree to get one.
ReplyDeleteGot some green ribbon at a craft store (with coupon, of course) and made one too.
Thank you Ellie. I'm glad I could inspire you to get creative. Enjoy!
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