welcome to our home

Everyday, whenever I leave my house I walk past this sign.

I made it last year when we moved to the apartment we live in now. It sits on top of a pipe at the top of our stairs outside our apartment. I made it so that people that come and try to find our apartment they know where to go. It's worked great so far for that purpose. 

It started out as a piece of plywood left over from another sort of project (we were not able to fit our box spring down the stairs, now we have a few pieces of plywood under our mattress). I painted it red first and then with yellow so that when I sanded it to give it a bit of character there was a different color underneath.

I sanded some of it down to the wood and some of it just to that red layer of paint.

I got a Cricket machine from my husbands work, they were going to throw it away! So he saved it for me. I cut the letters of my name and forever with my Cricket, I think I am a big fan of red, brown, green and yellow. It's all over my house.

Then I glued the letters onto the board where I wanted them to go, and put several layers of Modge Podge to finish it off.

I really like how it turned out