Is there a song from your past that triggers happiness. Maybe you don’t really know all the words, there can be a lot in a song. After all, depending on how long in the past we are talking about, it may be just the sound of the melody, or the music that rings a bell.
I love you, a bushel and a peck – a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck – a hug around the neck and a barrel and a heap – a barrel and a heap and I’m talking in my sleep about you.
This little song brings back so many memories of my grandma. She sang this song often to the grandchildren. It starts out kind of like a nursery rhyme and was easy for us to sing along. Boy I wish we had her recorded. It’s been over 30 years since I would spend the day at my grandparents house. Oh the memories. Anyhow– Just this part is all I could remember. So I did a YouTube search. I honestly don’t think I have ever heard the whole song. While I’m sure she played it, I don’t even know who it would have been by. There are a few to choose from on YouTube.
Lately while on my Pinterest adventures, I have seen this saying. It just brings a happiness to my heart and I knew I had to make something myself. Sooooo, now what will that be??
It didn’t take long to decide. I had picked up a bunch of pallets last summer, so wood was available. (Disclaimer here, seriously, just go buy wood and rough it up. Pallets are terrible to take apart.)
I wanted something for the upcoming Valentine’s Day, yet I also wanted it to fit in after the season of LOVE. This project was super easy.
- Pieces of pallet wood, but any scraps or new or old will work. Cut to your preference size
- Lath scraps I had from a earlier project.
- Staple gun
- Paint — I used acrylic paint & brush, but wished I had a paint pen on hand.
See where I put the two red X’s. When stapling, I lined up boards to my preference, then held them tightly together and stapled the end of each lath strip, followed by finishing up with the rest of the middle boards, this way they all stayed tight.
I wrote out the words on paper and placed how I thought I would like. This is a great way to play with sizes of the words and placement. We have several old notebooks from past school years, because goodness forbid a child takes a hardly used notebook back to school the next year for another hardly gonna use it class. Once you decide on how it looks perfect for you, the transfer step happens. I tried with shaded lead method, you know rubbing the back of the paper with lead, then tracing over lines on front to mark up the board. DIDN’T WORK!! If I would have had carbon paper, that could have been an option. Instead, I just lightly wrote the word on the board with pencil. Then painted over that. I feel that a paint pen would be much easier. I would have possibly been able to make the lettering more artistic. On hand, I had some craft paint. While I haven’t used this with many projects, I do like it. It’s a nice solid cover while painting.
Simply took a small firm brush and painted over the lightly penciled lettering. It took some time due to not being able to hold much paint on the brush. And it was very thirsty pallet wood.
Possible steps that could have made project go smoother:
- Sanding the boards even more
- Putting on a clear coat first, this would have smoothed out the boards a bit and made them not so dry.
- Using a paint pen!! If anything, I would have used it as my outline for lettering. I then could have continued with the paint and brush method. (The pencil lines were hard to see, thus hard to trace for nice lettering)
This project was super easy, super cheap.
