My Attempt At A Homemade Porch Sign.
I felt so terrible last weekend, I pretty much stayed in my jammies all day on Saturday. Ugh 🙁
Every Saturday morning, at 8 AM, I help put together meals for the shut-in’s at one of the local food pantries but I couldn’t get out of bed to get there. Bless Poo’s heart for going in my place ♥
I hate getting sick but I do love an excuse to lay around all day without feeling guilty. I couldn’t do it very often, as it’s not my personality, but when a good reason drops in my lap, what the heck!
When I’m forced to slow down, I usually want to spend my waking hours doing mindless things like watching Hallmark, searching the internet for new recipes, or scrolling through Pinterest.
Between bouts of drowsiness, I spent most of the day looking up how to make a homemade porch sign.
My quest to make my front porch more inviting began a couple of weeks ago as I watched my young neighbors, directly across the street, decorate their yard for fall.
Their yard looks so appealing, you could say I had yard envy.
After days, and days ………. of being forced to view cuteness, on overload, I decided I needed to put the little green monster to good use and get to work on mine.
I have the boards. I have a stash of paint. It’s all just hangin’ out in my basement, calling my name.
So ……….. I pinned a few pictures for ideas and plotted out my course of action, even thinking I could probably free-hand the letters. I’m not sure why I thought I had the artistic ability to pull it off because, other than a class in wood shop during my stint in junior high, I haven’t had much instruction in art.
The delirium soon wore off and I realized I needed to hit up the craft store for a few supplies, including stencils. 🙂
As soon as I was feeling better I set my boards up in the garage so I could get started on the painting.
I decided I might as well utilize the other side of the board and make my porch sign reversible.
Green on one side for fall and red on the opposite side for Christmas.
I did end up free-handing the “fall” letters at the top of the sign and they were a lot harder to do than I expected. I used a pencil to draft the placement of the letters but, if you look closely, you can see where I had to paint over the pencil marks to hide them. (I tried to use the pencil eraser but it didn’t work.)
I’m not positive of the cause but, I think the reason the green paint didn’t blend when I painted over the pencil marks was because I dipped the brush into the paint from the lid instead of taking it from the can.
Although not perfect, I’m satisfied with my first attempt.
It looks ok.
I haven’t started on the opposite side yet but I think I can make some improvements to my technique and the overall look of the project.
And ……… I’m ready for trick or treaters!
Stay tuned, I will post pictures of the red side when I am finished.
Materials I used for my porch sign:
- 6′ x 1″ x 8″ pine board
- green paint
- paint brush
- scissors
- stencils
- painters tape
- off-white paint
- stencil brush
- black paint
- ribbon
- craft leaves
- hot glue gun
I didn’t have any off-white paint so I improvised by adding a touch of the yellow paint, I had on hand, to white paint until I achieved the desired color. (I poured white paint on a plate and added the yellow to it then, mixed it up.)
“In crafting there are no mistakes, just unique creations.”
xoxo, Katy