You know, one of those upcycled wood pallets all painted up and prettyfied with a Scripture?
Well, I've been loving them for quite a while and whenever I get on Pinterest {which is like once in three months, because really, who needs another vortex to be sucked into???}, I would oooh and aaah over these signs.
And when my hip sister in law posted pictures of one that my handy brother in law made for someone, well, I just got bit by the bug.
The crafty, DIY, gotta find me a wood pallet bug.
So whilst on spring break and visiting my parents for sweet Claire Bear's birthday, I bought up two pallets {$2/each}. And this past weekend, Jase and I got ourselves busy with the task of making a custom pallet scripture art piece for our freshly painted master bath.
Happy, happy, happy.
Thursday night, while Jase was out with the Pook and Sydney Baby at a choir concert for some of our students, I cut up an apple, took the boys on the back deck to eat it and did me some sanding of the pallets as they snacked and looked at me like I'd lost my mind.
Yes, they did.
And on Friday, Jase fine tuned my sanding and then white washed the pallets with left over paint from the bathroom. Score. You gotta love DIY on the cheap! I helped him assemble them and on Saturday, then after a series of unexpected mishaps in trying to get the template printed for the verse, I resorted to extreme measures.
Enter the overhead projector.
Circa 2001. Probably. Maybe earlier.
This joker isn't too old, it's light, made of plastic. But pretty darn blurry. And it was a struggle to see the small words. So I just had to wing it on those. I chose the longest verse ever. From Ephesians chapter 1. But I couldn't help myself. It had to be this one. Had to be. And sure, we could have used vinyls or some other method. But this was cheap...and we were really wanting a weathered, old look for the final product. It was a killer...
However, after hours and HOURS of diligent work, we have exactly what I wanted.
Aaaaaahhhh........
And that, my friends, is how Jase and I got our craft on last weekend. As the Pook says, "BA BAM!" Take that, Pinterest!
2 comments:
Nice work!! We have several "festivals" here every year - you know the ones - where folks come together and sell all sorts of "crafty stuff" to unsuspecting folks. These would sell here - maybe you're onto something!
hugs - aus and co.
How did you come up with the lettering to use on your projector? Keith gave me an old overhead and I would love to make something like this.
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