Hi everyone! I hope you all had a great week-end. Mine started on Thursday when my sweet husband took the day off and we drove to the Clark Museum in Williamstown (MA) to see a new Van Gogh exhibit. I will write about that soon. Then on Friday, my sweet daughter and I filled up the van after hitting several garage and estate sales. I’ll share my purchases with you tomorrow. Saturday I took my bi-monthly trip the Gristmill Antique Center to stock my booth, and then ran home to prepare for a family BBQ. Today we spent the morning at church, followed by another family BBQ. Somewhere in all of that I managed to finish today’s project: a market sign.
Some of you may remember my recent trip to Lancaster County (PA) with my sweet husband. I bought a number of pieces there, and this antique cupboard door was one of them. (Check out my photos of the beautiful, Lancaster countryside.)
I fell in love with its old, mottled surface and spent [a whopping] $13.00–pretty exorbitant for me.
I’ve been wanting to make a “Market” sign for a while and this cupboard door seemed like the perfect piece for the project.
I got out my acrylic craft paint and my dollar store makeup sponge and set to work. (I use old plastic lids over and over for most of my small painting projects.)
I used the same stencils that I had for my side table makeover last week–$2.99 from JoAnn’s Fabric.
When spelling a word or words with individual letter stencils, I lay them side by side on the project surface to get an idea of how much space I’ll be needing. Then I usually stencil the first and last letters and move inward. I find this helps me to achieve even spacing for the entire word.
I gave it a coat of Minwax paste wax after the paint dried and attached a wire on the back for hanging.
I think it was a good use of this old door. What do you think?
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Thanks so much for the feature Angie!
Bye for now
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Wow, you do sound busy! School started for my two high-schoolers today, and I start homeschooling my son after Labor Day. I love the market door project. $13 would have been high for me, too, but look how great it turned out! Makes it worth it! I also really love the Paris Café sign on the wall!
xoKathleen
Wow that’s so early! Mine start the day after Labor day (like your homeschooler), so we’ve still got some summer left to enjoy. I’m glad you like the sign, Kathleen. The font’s not exactly what I wanted, but then, that makes it all mine, not an exact copy of someone else’s, right? The Paris Cafe sign is a graphic transfer (on a transparency) that I did not too long ago. I’m kinda partial to it myself 🙂 Thanks for popping in–
Great sign!! I love how you have it arranged with you boards!
I love turning old cabinet doors into signs! Love what you did with this one and I love all your breadboards too. Thanks so much for sharing at Vintage Inspiration Party.
I love the garden sign on the mud leveler. How did you get the paint to stay on the metal?
Hi Susan! I gave it a couple of coats of polyurethane. Have a great day!