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Handmade Wood Christmas Sign

I’m excited to participate in this years annual Handmade Holidays Blog Hop hosted by Smart Fun DIY.

I love to make wood signs out of cheap cedar fence pickets. They are thin so the sign is light weight, and the wood is a little rough making them easy to distress.  I need a Christmas sign to replace my FALL sign on the porch and settled on Noel since it’ll be the same length as Fall.


When I googled NOEL, it said that it can be traced back to a latin meaning of ‘birthday’. I decided to incorporate the birth into the Christmas sign with a little silhouette of the manger. Hopefully you can use your imagination and see it 🙂 (and not a chicken). It’s based off of cute ornament I saw on Oriental Trading.

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DIY Bottle Opener Game

**This post is sponsored by The Home Depot**

Hi and welcome to the Home Depot DIY Workshop (Do It Yourself) Virtual Party. This month’s workshop project is for a fun bottle opener game for Dad to play while he’s chilling and watching his favorite team.

Bottle Opener Game – June Home Depot DIY Workshop Project

Learn to build this fun gift for Dad at the June DIY Workshop project at Home Depot - Bottle Opener Game. Register Now #DIYWorkshop

The Home Depot is offering a DIY (Do-It-Yourself) workshop to teach you how to make this fun bottle opener game and will help you become comfortable with the power tools needed to create it.

About the workshops:

  • The Home Depot offers Workshops at all of their locations for do-it-yourselfers of all ages and experience levels.
  • There are three types of Workshops offered – Do-It Yourself (DIY), Do-It-Herself (DIH) and Kids.
  • Customers can learn how to build dĂ©cor projects, how to make easy home repairs and how to operate tools through demonstrations and step-by-step instructions.
  • Visit http://workshops.homedepot.com to learn more.
  • The Home Depot would love to hear about your workshop experience – give your feedback Workshop Feedback Survey

Make sure to get registered to attend the free workshop at your local Home Depot on Saturday, June 10 at 10 am! Share your project creations with hashtag #DIYWorkshop

Today I’m participating in a virtual party with 9 bloggers to show how we customized the Bottle Opener Game. We love flavored soda pops around here, there are so many delicious concoctions especially anything coconut ie “dirty”. This is a fun way to mix it up and try new combos.

Here’s how it works:

  • POP-A-TOP off of your favorite cold soda
  • Let your bottle cap DROP through the nail maze into one of the FLAVOR slots
    • Raspberry, Mango, Strawberry, Coconut, Peach
  • Add flavored syrup to your soda
  • Enjoy!

POP-A-TOP off of your favorite cold soda Let your bottle cap. DROP through the nail maze into one of the FLAVOR slots. Add flavored syrup to your soda. Enjoy!

Check out all of the other great bottle opener game versions

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LOVE Valentine’s Wood Sign

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and today I’m participating in a Handmade Valentine Blog Hop with 40+ fun handmade Valentine’s ideas.

40+ great handmade Valentine ideas

Be sure to check out all of the fun ideas at the end of the post.

I have quite the pile of scrap wood collecting in my garage, and I love any excuse to use some up.  This big Valentine’s love wood sign is the perfect project for scrap wood. The main part of the sign uses cheap cedar pickets that I got from Home Depot, they are fun to use because they are thin and rough which is great for distressing.  This idea is inspired by My Altered State Pauline’s Christmas Ornaments, they are so cute!

DIY big LOVE wood sign for Valentine's decor. Free plans and tutorial.

You can find the tutorial for the DIY lantern here.

How to Make a Big LOVE Sign

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Buffalo Check Holiday Tablescape

Hi and welcome to the DIY’ers 2016 Holiday Tablescape Tour, thanks for stopping by!

Holiday Tablescape Tour 2016

A DIY’ers tour wouldn’t be complete without a few DIY home decor projects for a holiday table. I just built a 48″ round table for my kitchen and I couldn’t wait to deck it out for Christmas breakfast.

Simple red & black buffalo check and pine tree Christmas table decor. Plus a holiday tablescape tour for lots of fun and festive table ideas.

One of my favorite features of the table is the super chunky pedestal base.  The whole table was built with simple lumber from Home Depot.

Simple red & black buffalo check and pine tree Christmas table decor. Plus a holiday tablescape tour for lots of fun and festive table ideas.We are usually very casual around here, our nice plates are the Corelle plates with the blue flowers from the 80’s!  I decided it was high time to get some holiday tableware.

Simple red & black buffalo check and pine tree Christmas table decor. Plus a holiday tablescape tour for lots of fun and festive table ideas.

I found these cute red and black buffalo check plates at Hobby Lobby. Since they are a little lumberjack-ish I decided to make a little pine tree forest!  The green napkins are folded in a pine tree napkin shape.  The buffalo check plates needed a charger against the brown table, so I cut 13″ chargers from scrap 3/16″ plywood. I painted the chargers white and added a black pinstripe to match with the coordinating holiday tableware.

Simple red & black buffalo check and pine tree Christmas table decor. Plus a holiday tablescape tour for lots of fun and festive table ideas.

I couldn’t pass up the festive bowls,

Simple red & black buffalo check and pine tree Christmas table decor. Plus a holiday tablescape tour for lots of fun and festive table ideas.

and serving platter. On Christmas morning it will be filled with yummy cinnamon rolls.

Simple red & black buffalo check and pine tree Christmas table decor. Plus a holiday tablescape tour for lots of fun and festive table ideas.

My Christmas table centerpiece starts with this fun DIY rustic lantern, you can check out the tutorial here (this is the small lantern). To keep with the pine tree theme, I added a 1 foot tall miniature Christmas tree in the center, lit with battery LED lights. A few miniature trees and pine cones adorn the lantern.

Simple red & black buffalo check and pine tree Christmas table decor. Plus a holiday tablescape tour for lots of fun and festive table ideas.

I also tried the lantern filled with a wood stump and candles.  Help me decide, which look is cuter?  Tree or candles?

Simple red & black buffalo check and pine tree Christmas table decor. Plus a holiday tablescape tour for lots of fun and festive table ideas.

Simple red & black buffalo check and pine tree Christmas table decor. Plus a holiday tablescape tour for lots of fun and festive table ideas.

Do you like to decorate your table for the holidays? You’ll want to check out the rest of the Holiday Tablescape Tour for more ideas!

The first stop on this tour is at Jessica’s Decor Adventures, make sure to swing by and check out her cute tablescape.

decoradventure

Head on over to Jillians’s at I Am a Homemaker, you’ll love her tablescape!

Holiday Tablescape Tour 2016

Decor Adventures
Her Toolbelt
I Am a Homemaker
Pretty Handy Girl
Remodelando la Casa
Sawdust 2 Stitches
Stacy Risenmay
That’s My Letter

Enjoy the rest of the tour!

Simple red & black buffalo check and pine tree Christmas table decor. Plus a holiday tablescape tour for lots of fun and festive table ideas.

DIY Wood Reindeer

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Welcome to Day 8 of the 13 Days of a Woodworker Christmas!

13 days of a woodworkers Christmas - day 8 DIY wood reindeer

This year I built a fun DIY Wood Santa Sleigh for my front porch, but what is a sleigh without a reindeer to pull it??? I really like the shape of this wood deer (that is no longer available).  My DIY wood reindeer follows that same basic shape with some changes.

Make a cute DIY wood reindeer from a simple 1x8 board, free printable pattern.

See how it’s made:

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