Jenga Block Vintage Farm Sign

How was ya'lls weekend?

Mine was the usual- had a girls night Friday night when hubs and little man were out, hung with the fam on saturday...and sunday I played catch up on homework since I'm such a good little procrastinator :)

I also, maybe, might have messed around with my mantle some more.

On my FB, I told you guys that I got all my fall decor out last week and decorated.

I also got my mantle 'done' which doesn't mean much because I knew that the next few weeks would be spent tweaking it here and there.

Do you guys do that too?

I'm just proud that I got it done because I was having a hard time breaking down my spring mantle.

I loved it just a little :)

But it's time for something new and, of course, fall-ish!

Thus...

And it's going to have to be the most epic mantle makeover for my little mantle everrrr.

Because he not only got a facelift as to what's on top of him, but also a facelife in general.

As in, a lot has changed :)

I'm so excited to show you but the grand reveal will have to wait til the end of the week...

but every good reveal needs a before pic so here's the spring mantle in all it's glory...

*Funny Fact: I hate that brass faceplate on the fireplace so much that when I did my post on my spring mantle, I never posted a full photo of the fireplace- it always got cut off right above that- lol*

So much has been done to make the fireplace look happier and brighter :)

But today I'm going to show you a little piece that went on the fall version of my mantle.

If you've followed me very long, you know I have a slight love affair with vintage signs.

So when I saw this mantle on Pinterest I was head over heels in love.

If you go to the original post, you will die over how beautiful all her fall decor is.

Seriously.

And I just adored her little farm sign.

She actually found that little beauty and since Arkansas has a serious shortage on cute vintage farm signs, I decided to make my own.

A friend of mine had brought a ton of beautiful wood from an old wooden fence over to make bookshelves and she gave me the scraps that were left over :)

(You know that's a sign of a life-long friend!)

So I had these gorgeous pieces of weathered wood:

It was already perfect for what I needed to recreate a hand-made sign :)

Love it when that happens.

I gave them a good sanding, but decided to leave them their original coloring.

The tops of the fence wood were cut at angles which made it even better.

I laid four of them next to each other and secured two pieces of 1x4s along the backs with nails.

Voila. I had the startings of a fun sign.

Now I had to figure out how to do the lettering...

and what lettering to do.

Me and hubby threw all kinds of ideas out- I knew I wanted it to be a farm sign so we were trying to come up with something clever.

Hubby ended up liking 'Clover Hill Farm' the best so we went with that :)

I adored the raised lettering in the inspiration sign and really wanted to recreate that.

But I wanted them to look rough-hewn and hand-made.

No chipboard or painted letters, please.

I love it when things just catch your eye that are perfect with a capital P!

I had another box of Jenga blocks from my Jenga Block Baby Gift and knew they'd make the perfect raised letters!!!

I quickly laid them out...

So perfect.

So excting.

They were exactly the look I was going for.

Although I had made the boards before making the words so they were a little big.

Nothing my miter saw couldn't take care of though.

Just go nice and slow cuz you certianly don't want a Jenga Block thrown violently at your head :)

Much better.

I gave them a quick coat of Espresso Brown and tried to patiently wait.

After my patience had worn thin, I grabbed my Crackle Spraypaint (which is also what I used on my crackle pumpkin!).

I love this stuff- I've never had luck with the bottle kind of crackle paint, but this stuff is amazing.

Pretty crackles every time!!

See??

 Perfect, gorgeous crackles.

Swoon.

I used my nail gun to nail them onto my boards... and absolutely loved the result!

I love the hand-made look of it.

And I was so excited to achieve the raised letters :)

Aren't Jenga Blocks amazing??

Betcha never knew they could look so pretty!

And, of course, I had to set it up for a photo shoot :)

What do you think?

Do you need your own vintage farm sign too???

I'm in love with my new sign.

And it's not all faux- vintage...considering that the weathered wood is completely real :)

I'm so excited about showing you the rest of my mantle decor,

I hope you'll stop by every day this week to check in!!!

Tomorrow, I have an easy way to dress up your pumpkins,

and Wednesday is that other glitter project I've been telling you about!

Happy Monday, guys!!

(if there is such a thing...)

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