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We were invited to a wedding reception of a “kid” that I’ve known from our homeschool group for several years. He’s also been helping to instruct my children in karate for a couple of years. When we decided to go to the reception, I knew exactly what I wanted to make as their wedding gift. I had seen some similar examples online on other DIY blogs and had snagged some old porch spindles that my parents were going to put in a rummage sale, for use in my crafts. I kept procrastinating…and we didn’t get it finished until just 30 short minutes before we were supposed to be there.
Here is the story of how I turned this:
Into this:
I started by sanding the spindle down really well, getting the old stain off, as it was cracking and chipping.
Then, we (being Mr. Sidetracked and I) cut the wood for the tops and bottoms and got it ready for painting as well. We did not measure. We just eyed it, to get it where it seemed right. After that, we primed and painted each board and spindle. Once the paint was dried, we screwed the bottom board and top board into place.
After we screwed the bottom piece and top piece into place, we wood glued the top board on and then screwed the hook into place.
I love how the hook really dressed it up!
Meanwhile, we were working on the “Welcome” sign. I printed out the size and font I wanted onto card stock and cut it out with a blade, since I don’t own a Cricket or anything that can cut vinyl (yet anyway). We spray painted the board black and after it had dried, attached my homemade stencil and began spraying it with white.
We had some overspray and some extra white in places that we didn’t really want it, so we roughed it up with some sandpaper a bit and then sprayed a really light coat of white spray paint over the black…making it a bit speckled. The sign isn’t perfect….but I LOVE it anyway! Mr. Sidetracked drilled two holes into the corners of the sign and put baling wire through the holes so that we could hang it from the hook. You could easily change out the sign for something more season specific.
The final product, you’ve already seen….but it doesn’t feel complete without showing it one more time! I
Here are a couple of my “helpers”, hanging out in the grass while we worked….
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That is darling! I love it! Thanks for linking it to Your Green Resource!
I love it, Sarah! Seen some fun spindle projects lately, yours is a favorite – well done!
Love this! Must find a spindle now…I pinned it and am following you now
I'd love if you stopped by my blog and checked it out sometime!jamie@sewrockin.com
This is really cute. I might steal the idea. Found you over at The Idea Room…thank you
Just wanted to let you know that I featured your project this past friday on the very first edition of "You Sew Rock Me Fridays" @ Sew Rockin'. Awesome job…I look forward to see what you come up with next!http://www.sewrockin.com/2011/10/21/you-sew-rock-me-fridays-1/Jamie
so cute! I love using scraps. Very nice gift !!catching you this week!gail
Hi Sarah! We loved your Welcome Sign, thank you so much for sharing it with us at Inspiration Friday. We will be featuring it this week with our highlights! Post will go up Thursday afternoon.
Heather
That is so cute and such a great gift.http://pam-lifethroughmyeyes.blogspot.com/
It came out so good! I want one for my porch! I bet they were very happy to get this unique gift.