Old Woodworking Project Finds New Life as a Sign

I did manage to get the sign made that I mentioned in my last post about Getting Ready for the Holiday’s. It was fun and pretty easy to do.

First I found my piece of wood in our pile of wood to be burned and I was so happy because it was some wood from a chair my son Seth had made when he was in high school  learning woodworking. He completed some basic projects and this chair was one of them. You may remember that I shared another project I made from this chair back in April – a coat hook.

This is a picture of Seth and my mom the day of his high school graduation sitting on “the chair”.

And here is Seth now 7 years later. But that isn’t my mom. 🙂 That’s my daughter and Seth’s sister, Serenity.

But I digress.

The piece of wood that I found for my sign was the actual seat of the chair. We cut that part off and now there’s not much left of the chair but I’m happy because I now have another piece of wood that is useful and has sentimental value to me.

I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut out the words, “O come let us adore Him”. I had to do it in parts since the paper was too small to accommodate the size of letters I wanted. There may be a different way to approach this but since I didn’t know that better way, I had to do it like I did. Then I put the stencil on the wood and painted.

And here it is.

I love it – even with its smudges of paint. Of course, I probably would have loved it more without them.

And I just love it on my Winter mantle.