handmade – Page 9

Here’s a quick little project I tackled over the weekend.

I had a little wooden sign that was cute, but just didn’t have a place in my new home. I painted it Annie Sloan’s Old White and then attempted to use my super-awesome (sarcasm!) freehand to write Le Bain (the bath).


Don’t judge my poor excuse for a drop cloth, nor my choice of dog food. I’m on a budget people! 😉

I then traced the letters with Glidden’s Deepest Aqua. I got a 2 oz. paint tester at Walmart for less than $3! When it was dry I used clear wax to set the paint. I finished off my little sign with a fabric rosette made from the same fabric as the curtains and voila:

As much as I like my new sign, it confirms how badly I could use a Silhouette! This is definitely another project in the “it doesn’t have to be perfect…” book.

Scroll below to see where this and other projects are linked.

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One of the things I love the most about Richmond is its proximity to the wineries in Charlottesville. Last weekend, Hubs and I celebrated his birthday in Charlottesville and were pleasantly surprised when we stumbled upon a relatively new winery. Stinson Vineyards has an absolutely gorgeous tasting room and property and their wines are fantastic to boot.

While I was there, I picked up this adorable little wreath made from grape vines.

I had a million and one ideas as to what I wanted to do with it, but like most of my projects, I choose one idea and run with it, for better or worse.

I decided to make a monogrammed wreath, but I knew that it would not hold the weight of a wooden letter. I am not lucky enough to own a Silhouette, so I printed out a large letter M from MS Word and traced and cut it out of a piece of cardboard.

I then traced the letter on to a piece of scrap fabric.

Eight months after purchasing my very first jar of Mod Podge I finally opened it and attempted to Mod Podge the fabric onto the cardboard letter.

While the Mod Podge dried I made a couple of fabric rosettes from some other scraps. When the letter was completely dry, I trimmed off the edges where the fabric and cardboard didn’t line up correctly (and there were quite a few).

I couldn’t decide quite how I wanted the wreath to look, so after a couple of tries I ended up with this:

I will admit, it’s not as awesome as what I had envisioned, but I dig it nonetheless. One of the things we AquaSeventy6 girls live by is the mantra that design doesn’t have to perfect to be wonderful to us.