Surprise Project

C & I LOVE this song. Well, really we love anything DMB does....This one is particularly important to us. So when I saw this on Pinterest I knew I wanted to make one for us, but put my own spin on it. 


I drug the girls to Hobby Lobby to find some letters; here's what we found:

We have a whole bunch of scrap wood in our back yard from building the girls' swing set (we'll get to that in another post). I picked through the pieces until I found some I liked.

 

My original idea was to use the longer piece of wood so the project would be more linear & would fit in the space above our headboard, but below the vent. Stupid vent....Well, the big piece of wood was stinkin' HEAVY & the whole thing would have to be bolted to the wall. Plan B: I found two more wood pieces the size of the one in front. The pieces I chose were pretty beat up & had nail holes in them. I love them. I spray painted the letters a chocolate brown & used a watered lime green paint on the boards. Then I used an antiquing glaze over the boards. The boards weren't as green as I hoped after the glaze, but I decided that was okay. 

I wanted to finish the whole thing & put it on the wall without telling C; see how long it took for him to notice. But I kind of needed help attaching the boards together, so he helped me by putting the boards together with a metal stick thingy one the back & a hanging wire. "Metal stick thingy". WOW. Probably a good thing I asked for his help....


Here's how it looks on our wall: 

This is my most favorite thing I have ever made.