It has been a hot minute since I did one of my Poor Badger blogs, I have really missed it. We've had a great year so far this 2012, I just have been kept bust with a 4, 3, and 1 year old. Even as I type this I am bathing one kid for church and creeping silently to avoid waking the other two. But I truly miss this and I miss the people I've met doing this.
Now for some old business:
I am blessed, humbled, and dumbfounded that over 11,000 people read my blog last year. People from Asia, Africa, South America, Europe, Australia,and North America showed up to my blog. Still haven't cracked that Antarctic market though. ;)
Thank you for that, I do hope to have more projects for you.
Onto the project!
This came out of a scary and frustrating situation. My husband is a janitor for a local school system and carries a set of keys for the doors, closets, etc. If he loses those keys it is MAJOR TROUBLE! Guess what he did? Hid them over his vacation so he wouldn't lose them and FORGOT where he hid them! Thank God he found them and so out of a crisis a craft emerged!
You'll need:
*a board ($2.99 @Hobby Lobby)
*scrapbook paper in any style (.59 @ Hobby Lobby)
*some hardware to hang the keys (50% sale @ Hobby Lobby.... $1.50 a PIECE!!!)
*some paint
*mod podge
*some screws
First I painted the edge, any color you want. I Liked the dark brown with the woodsy style.
After you paint it, figure out where on the board you want your hardware. Place and mark where the screw needs to go.
Pre-drill your pilot holes. This makes things easier afterwards.
Apply scrapbook paper to board with a thin layer of mod podge. Smooth out paper and work with any air bubble.
Use your tiny scissors to trim the extra away.
Apply 1 or 2 coats of mod podge to the entire project, depending on how you want it. Then screw your screws into the board. Your paper won't tear because you drilled the pilot holes.
Because we are poor folk and do things as easy peezy as possible, I used my diet Dr. Pepper lid to make a hanging tab on the back.
There you go! If Hobby Lobby doesn't have the
hardware on sale, print off their 40% coupon from
their site. This would also be cute if you used cute
drawer knobs, old faucets found at a yard sale,
or something from nature.
Thanks for reading and I promise not to be
such a stranger anymore!
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ReplyDeleteThe detail about your husband hiding the keys over vacation and then forgetting the hiding spot is a better origin story than most craft projects get, and the $2.99 Hobby Lobby board with hardware at $1.50 a piece makes it feel genuinely buildable. Painting the edge first, before any hardware goes on, reads like a sensible order of operations. Unrelated side note: our small team works on My Hotel Lobby AI, an AI video tool, so we mostly read this for the reminder that the useful projects start with a real annoyance.
ReplyDeleteThe note about 11,000 readers from six continents last year—and still no Antarctic market—makes a fun frame for a return post after a stretch with a 4, 3 and 1 year old. The project list is refreshingly short, with .59 scrapbook paper and mod podge doing most of the decorative work. Our team builds Shotra, an AI video generator, and we read this for how a small material list can keep a tutorial concrete.
ReplyDeleteThe image of bathing one kid for church while creeping past the other two makes the return-to-blogging premise feel honest, and it fits a project built around a real scare rather than a styled photo. The supply list is refreshingly short, too, and leaving the board size unstated means the rack can match however many keys your husband actually carries. Our team is behind the 2 Minute Drill Game, a free play-calling browser game and independent fan project with no NFL affiliation or endorsement, and we liked seeing a tutorial that starts from a specific problem.
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