My desire to make one finally came to a head when I realized I had no ideas for my sister's Christmas present. She has a big-girl job now, so what do you buy the independent young woman?
After consulting my carpenter (aka, my wonderful father-in-law), we (aka, my wonderful father-in-law) assembled a pallet sign pretty quickly. Again, I am cheap, and even though I wanted gray stain originally, I borrowed leftover stain from a friend's project (Minwax Jacobean 2750).
The hard part was picking a non-cheesy, non-cliché, non-attitudinal statement. Another challenge is my horrible hand-writing and minimal skills with paint. I intended to use a projector to stencil out the letters, but the weather kept me from running to school. I wound up lettering freehand based on some art I found online. Here's the final result:
A few people have asked me "be still and know what?" Check out Psalms 46:10. Overall, not too shabby! I used Waverly semi-gloss acrylic in "Plaster" and "Celery," both found at WalMart.
Pallets: free
Stain: free
Total cost: $3.52
I'll definitely be repeating this project in the future. It probably took 4 hours in total to make a beautiful statement piece.
