It's A Sign

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Quite literally!  It is a sign!  I made one har har.  And being my first sign I'm pretty pleased.  For the most part.  I didn't do a step by step or anything since these things are a dime a dozen now days.  And let me tell you you'll be glad I didn't.

I knew I wanted this to hang over the front door inside so I measured to get an idea of how long my board should be.  Well let me tell you if you have a short last name you wont want it to be too long or your letters have to be GINORMOUS for it to look remotely cool lol.

Next I painted it grey but it was not looking great so I roughed up the edges and stained them dark walnut.  Then completely by mistake I got some stain in the middle of the board and when I wiped it off I liked what I saw so I rubbed it all over and voila it looked cool.

While that dried I cut out my letters on the silhouette and then taped off my lines for the rugby stripe in the middle.  I painted the letters and stripes in burnt umber. 

Next came the fun part.  If you think an education is difficult, try being stupid.  First my centering was off so the G was way too far to the left.  Re-sand and paint and glaze.  While that dries start painting the letters on backward from right to left.  Got the H, woohoo!  Looks great.  What's next?  Oh yes how about a G!  Mother of all things holy!  Are you kidding me?  Why can't I get this right? I can't spell my name backward.  So we sand some more and re-paint again.  That's two out of 5 letters I've screwed up thus far.  Now I'm pursing my lips and trying to refrain from cursing so loud the neighbors come to find out if I've severed a limb.

I'm sure you can see around the T where it's blotchy.  Yep, being a retard is challenging some days.  But overall I'm happy and hey... you can't win em' all right?!

~Sommer

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