Well, it's almost halfway through October and I think I'm finally settled in to our new routine.
This is the first year that both of my children are in school. My youngest is only in kindergarten and our school is still doing half-day kindergarten so that gives me 3 hours of being kid free. I originally had planned on using my free time to keep up on housework and possibly running errands but plans have changed! I now use that 3 hours to workout. I spend about 1 hour 45 minutes at the gym then run home and get showered and dressed and run up to the school to pick up my daughter. Then we usually have lunch, run errands and I try to squeeze in some housework before picking up my son and heading to karate, PTA meetings, church functions, Scentsy business, etc. Needless to say I haven't had much time for crafting and I've been having withdrawls! :)
Tonight I decided to work on a few projects that I've been itching to do! My husband built me a pretty picture frame that has been sitting in our garage for a few weeks so I painted and distressed it (will save that for another post when it's completely done and hanging on our wall) and this wooden plaque that I got YEARS ago from At Home America has been sitting in my garage waiting to be repainted. I saw a similar sign on Pinterest and wanted to make one for my front porch!
I used an orange paint sample that I got at Home Depot a couple months ago along with a chocolate brown sample.
I used 3 of my favorite fonts (Reklame Script, Yummy Cupcakes and Androgyne) for the words.
I used a orange glitter paint (Martha Stewart) and went over "blessed" to add a little sparkle.
I then sanded down the edges and used a dark walnut stain on the edges as well as across the front.
I LOVE how it turned out!
