Friday, 25 April 2014

Flower Wreath

I made a craft this week - a new flower wreath for the front porch.

I realized that in my post about the Easter Banner, I forgot to say where a couple pics came from.  In particular, this wreath
Wall Flower Reclaimed Wood Wreath / Wall by JeraldBuildsStuff
which came from here on Etsy, and has inspired me to make my own.  (The other wreath was also from Etsy, but is no longer available.)

I started with an old piece of thin plywood, that used to be in our front room/living room.

I traced out a design

and started cutting.  I cut so much my hand got weak, and I had a hard time turning off the jig saw.  So, I took a break !

I tried a few different designs. Here is the light green with wood petals.

Wood with green petals.

Green with wood petals and center.

All interesting, but I decided to paint- white with yellow center.  I used home-made white chalk paint and yellow craft  paint.

This is after the third coat.

Now I need to seal it, glue it and hang it. I'll probably use wax since it's so cold still!  We had snow last night.

Here's how everything looked this morning!

I started working on the trim for the hall yesterday.  I got the baseboards cut and in.  
They are made of pine 1x6's.  These actually came from the old living room and were hanging out in out bedroom (former old living room), so I didn't even have to buy anything! 

Now I need to figure out miter cutting again for the crown moulding!

Have a nice weekend! :-)




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