I Love You a Bushel & A Peck (sign)

Do you remember when the tree fell on my house?  It crashed through my very old and weathered privacy fence.  Several sections had to be replaced.  I, of course kept the old fence pieces.

I used my sawzall to cut the braces apart, then used my circular saw to cut the fence boards.  It is four boards by about 37 inches. 

I sort of did a whitewash on the boards using Glidden’s Crisp White Linen--

--Using a very old brush because the boards were very rough and had lots of places that snagged the brush. Because the boards were so weathered, they turned gray instead of white.

I designed the stencil in my Silhouette program. I used the font BOSTON TRAFFIC (dafont.com)  It was too large to cut out all at once, but I designed it and then moved the words where it would cut in two different sessions. This way all the words were centered and the letters were all the same size.

I cut the words out of contact paper.  I peeled away the letters. The best thing about this font is that there were no “oodles” and “boodles” to work around.

I was very careful to burnish the edges so that there wouldn’t be a lot of “bleed”.   I used one of Martha’s pouncers to paint the letters with Martha’s sample paint Francesca.

The paint covered a little too well.

I sanded it back a little.  I LOVE how this sign turned out.  My mom used to sing this song when I was little, and I sang it to jamie when she was a baby EVERY time I put her down to nap or bedtime.  EVERY time!  This will hang over the bed in the guest room, should I ever get it done.   I still have quite a bit of fence left  .   .   .   hmmmm I wonder what is next?

Did you sing something special to your children?

UPDATE:  In the room--

gail

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