DIY Gold Feather Autumn Barn Wood Wall Decor~Home Expert Series

 Hello Again My BEAUTIES!

Its Time again for another edition of 

HOME EXPERT SERIES

for FURNITURE.COM

 Come on over and see how I turned this old wood from my scrap pile

Into some rustic Gold Feather Wall art!

So hurry on over to 

the FURNITURE.com blog to see the full tutorial.

Also don't forget to come back tomorrow

bright and early in the morning for the 

Something to Talk About Link Party.

I will meet you there!

Autumn Rustic Arrow Decor made from Salvage and Repurposed Materials

Hello again my Beauties!
Welcome back. 

I have joined up with a bunch of my blogging buddies for the Fall Ideas Tour. 

When I joined up I thought, I can do an easy Thrifty Fall craft....;

Easy Peasy....:)

and then the days started slipping away..

kids back to school, lots of work stuff and booth stuff that had to be taken care of;

and I thought..OH NO...what if I can't think of something thrifty to do?

Well, have no fear..in the process of working on other projects my 

FALL IDEA struck.

I was cleaning some stuff up in my garage and working on some furniture projects when 

I happened upon a pile of my pallet wood.

I also was cleaning up old hardware and other pieces from projects, 

and my BRAIN had an FALL IDEA.

Repurposed and Salvage Autumn Rustic Arrows.

I grabbed my Rockwell Bladerunner a straight edge

and a pencil and got to work.

I wanted them to be "RUSTIC" so I didn't want to be perfect about angles 

and edges.

I simply drew some straight lines across my boards and then drew a line to angle

them in half as a guide line where to cut.

I used my saw to simply cut the boards into squares and then cut them in half.

Then the fun part.

I grabbed my old hardware parts.

These were the face brackets from some old knobs I had taken off an old dresser. they had 3 holes perfect for attaching the top of the arrow and the bottom of the arrow.

I did this on a few more arrows and gave them a wash of paint with some gray brown paint, and let them dry.

Now here is when I could have grabbed my fancy cutting machine, and made some stencils,

but I wanted this to be "THRIFTY" meaning anyone could make these. 

So I decided to just paint them on by hand.

I just used so cream craft paint and

a black sharpie and outlined the letters.

Then to display them I grabbed some pallet wood and made a little stand for them and screwed them into the stand.

The perfect "THRIFTY" Autumn Rustic Arrow Fall decor.

I spent ZERO dollars.

You can't get much THRIFTIER than that! :)

I am not the only one being thrifty either.

Be sure to stop over and see ALL the fabulous bloggers and their Fall Ideas!

Monday

Postcards from the Ridge | All Things Heart and Home

Confessions of a Serial Do-it-Yourselfer | Domestically Speaking

Prodigal Pieces | Housepitality Designs

Mad In Crafts | My Creative Days

Tuesday

Refresh Restyle | 2 Bees in a Pod

Fox Hollow Cottage | Artsy Chicks Rule

Our Southern Home | Restoration Redoux

Savvy Southern Style | Atta Girl Says

Wednesday

H2OBungalow | Cottage at the Crossroads

Today's Creative Life | Dukes and Duchesses

Hunt & Host | The Interior Frugalista

Sweet Pea | Petticoat Junktion

Thursday

Thrift Diving | At the Picket Fence

Town and Country Living | Cupcakes and Crinoline

My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia | So Much Better With Age

Art is Beauty | AKA Design

Pumpkins Cider and Hayrides Autumn Craft from old Cupboard door

I am trying to Motivate myself to get working on some Fall
Crafts. So I am recapping this old post in the hopes of being INSPIRED!
ENJOY!

Good Morning my Beauties.
Just a quick post to show you IN FACT that I did do an
Autumn craft this year..:)
I actually did it a couple weeks ago and just now
am getting around to posting it.
Its modeled after the one that Ella Claire did which I just loved.

I have a ton of these old doors in my shed thanks to a friend who remodeled her kitchen.
I save them for when I have just the right sign I want to make.
I just filled the the old hole from the knob and started painting.

I used some custom mixed colors on this to get the reddish orange on the edge.
and painted the middle white.
Wanting the sign to look old its nice because it doesn't have to be perfect.

Using my silhouette I just cut out the words "pumpkins Cider and Hayrides" in'
different fun fonts and then added the arrow.
I used acrylic paint to paint in the stencil.
When it was done I waxed and buffed the whole thing.
and now I can say I did an Autumn craft and get that whole monkey off
my back..LOL!!
I hope you enjoyed!

and now I really want some CIDER..:)
Have a BEAUTIFUL day...
Until next time,
Karin

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