DIY Subway Art & Puffs

Ok.

So, I had a piece of wood sitting in the basement

staring me in the face ~

silently laughing at me because I just didn't know what to do with it.

In the meantime,

Hubby got a really bad chest and head cold

and spent all week on the sofa

hugging numerous boxes of Puffs,

source: pinterest

coughing his germs all over the living room,

and guzzling concoctions of OJ, tart cherry juice, and Diet Sierra Mist

by the gallons.

I did everything humanly possible to stay out of the room, 

fearful I would inhale one of his cooties

and end up getting sick...

or heaven forbid

he would ask me to pick up his icky snot rags for him

to empty them in the wastepaper basket.

I did mother him,

baby him,

and care for him....

(really, I did)

from a    

d i s t a n c e.

I busied myself in my studio,

in the basement,

and in the kitchen.

And that piece of wood continued to laugh.

Then, I had an "A-HA" moment.

I took the wood outside to Hubby's tool room to cut it in half

with the circular saw.

(I saw a flash of "Uh-oh...there she goes again..."

cross his pale face when I asked him from a

 d i s t a n c e 
how to turn it on.)

Back inside,

I painted the two boards with a couple coats of black chalkboard paint,

and while they were drying

I headed back into my studio to print off some sayings,

and to dig out the white transfer paper 

and white paint pens.

(Unfortunately, 

Santa failed to bring me one of those new fangled Cricuts.)

I set everything up in the kitchen

(where I could hear poor Hubby's snuffles, snorts and snotty nose)

and got to work.

I taped the sayings to each board with a piece of transfer paper beneath it.

Then, got to work tracing each letter.

That done,

I filled in each letter with a white paint pen

(that you can pick up at any craft store).

After sealing them with a coat of clear wax,

my DIY subway art art was ready to sell!

I'm thinking these need a wee bit of distressing yet...

No more laughing.

That board is now 

smiling...

and our germy house 

has been

f u m i g a t e d.

[ Blessings ]

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