Orange And

Mornin!

As I've said before, I started making home-made Christmas gifts for my family last year.  I made The Owlies for DD and StacRobots for DS.  Well, I even made something for HH.  An Ampersand!

I found it somewhere online (I think Etsy, but when I searched I couldn't find it- most of them are more curly.)  Anyway, here's a picture of my inspiration.

Once I printed the picture, I pretty much measured it and figured out how long each piece needed to be from that.  Then I just made my measurements bigger for the 2x4s. Here are the measurements I wrote down.

I used scrap boards.  Some from the back screened/trellised room we'd torn down. There it is in the back left-hand side painted blue, yellow and green.

I used the miter saw and cut all those angles which are my least favorite to cut. But it worked out and I only had to re-cut a few!  I used wood glue and screws in a couple places where the screws would be hidden by another board.  And I just used wood glue on the rest.  Because I don't have good clamps, I laid out the pieces and put a bunch of books on top to weight it down. Kinda like I did for the Wooden Flower Box!

Since some boards had paint on them, I couldn't leave it natural like the inspiration pic.  Therefore, I painted it.  Orange which is HH's fav color!

HH has it hanging on his office wall.  It sits nicely by itself and I hadn't meant for it to be hung up, but I think it looks nice there!

Here's a pretty picture of the light shining on the back room wall.  It's so nice to be back there in the day when it's sunny! 

Have a great day! :-)