My Pallet Addiction Project 1

It's about time that I make a post about crafting considering the original point (and name dedication) of this blog was to document my crafts and show tutorials. I'm going to flat out say it, pinterest is a gift from god for the creative mind. I have gotten so many ideas from the last two years of pinning and I finally have the time to dedicate to creating anything and everything my heart desires. With that being said, the next few post will be about my love of pallet crafting. An idea I got from pinterest but did what I do best, throw in a million other random things and rigging it to work with my own crafty ways.

Back in the beginning of Brady and I's long distance, I tore up a pallet board to make a wall decoration for his room in Hawaii. It took me a long, long time because being the girl that I am, I lacked the proper tools. I don't have a tutorial for it but I can tell you all of my brainstorming and rigging ways that given him this finished product.

Okay, let me tell you a little bit about my guy. He's the most sweet,  hands on, smart, inventive, tool craftsman. His passion is taking something apart, finding how it works, and rebuilding it to make it bigger and better. The size  of a daunting project does not intimidate him. The man can fix anything and perfect it again. How do  I know this? That's going to be a completely other blog post just to show you how brilliant my guy is at this. Anyway, at the time I owned a hammer and a box of nails. Getting those boards in the right order and hammering them together was the hardest part of the whole project. I literally had to stand on the boards to keep them from moving. Lets not even mention how I used a mini hacksaw to cut them the same length. From there, the hard part was over.

Brady sent my flowers for my birthday. I decided that I was going to use those dried flower petals and turn them into a flower clay. I whipped up the mixture and molded it by hand. After it dried, I painted it and then used a strong adhesive glue to stick it to the wood. I had a stack of old Virginia Beach maps so I antiqued one by letting it soak in tea bags and hot water. After it dried, I burned the edges and added it and our photo to the project. I promise, since this pallet project, I've gotten a lot better at demoing and building the boards back together.

The climate in Hawaii has softened the clay and allowed the paint to rub off. I have had to use modge podge to get the clay to stay compact so I could add more paint without the clay chipping into my brush.

Hope I helped give you a few pallet ideas! Thanks for reading,  
Erin