So a while back ago Abbie brought over a giant gingerbread house that her awesome mom made her for her birthday.
Yup. Redic. Why yes, that’s a vegetable garden in the bottom left. Oh, and it was 100% vegan too. Right?!
So anyway, see the giant piece of scrap wood that it’s sitting on? I saved that. For a while. Like almost 2 years. I thought that it might come in handy for something one day. And boy it did.
I had an idea to paint my favorite lyrics onto it – from Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zero’s “Home” (do yourself a favor and listen to it if you haven’t already). So good. Come to think of it, Abbie is the one who introduced me to that song. How appropriate!
Anyway, here’s that big ol’ piece of wood before I started playing:
And drum roll please —- here’s the after:
Likey? I do.
Here’s what I did. So easy you probably don’t even need instructions but just incase – 1) spray paint the thing with ivory spray paint. I used the whole can. the wood grain still showed through and I liked the aesthetic and I didn’t have another can of spray paint so I decided to go with it. 2) make a stencil and stick it on! My super awesome husband made a vinyl stencil at the sign shop he works at. 3) paint! I wanted it to look kind of vintage-y so I didn’t paint in each letter 100% – I used a dry bristly brush and lightly brushed on black acrylic paint. 4) let it dry. Duh. then pull your stencil off and voila! I’m going to add eye hooks to the top and wire it up and hang it!
What?! Amazing! So amazing!