Die Hard Sports Fan

Are you a sports fan,

or do you live with a sports fan?

Hubby has always enjoyed sports,

both participating and watching.

Me, I'm not a sports fanatic at all.

I will occasionally watch some sports if I don't

have anything else to do. 

Hubby and I were born and raised in Pennsylvania

but have lived in Wisconsin for the past 30 years.

As I was rearranging our bar area

Hubby mentioned that he would like to have

a Penn State Nittany lion logo to hang by the bar.

He was very emphatic about how he wanted it to look.

He wanted his lion logo to look like the one on his sweatshirt.

I searched on line but was unable to find one big

enough to fit the area without spending a fortune.

So what did I do?

I dug through my craft room and was able to

create one for Hubby that costs $0 to make.

I started with a piece of foam core board.

Next, using an image

and contact paper, I created a stencil.

I usually have a roll of this laying around in my craft room.
This stuff works great for making stencils.
I buy cheap contact paper from the Dollar store.

Once I had my image chosen and sized to the
size I wanted my logo to be,
I taped my image onto the front of the contact paper
and cut out my image.

Because  my image was wider than my Silhouette cutting
machine mat I had to manually cut it out by hand.
My image measures 13 x 19 inches.
I removed the backing paper from the contact
paper and carefully placed my image onto the foam core board
making sure that all the edges were tightly secured.

I was ready to paint my image.
I used acrylic craft paint and a 4 inch foam roller to paint over
the entire image.

I let the paint dry for about 1 hour and slowly peeled off
the contact paper to reveal the image.

For the final step I used an Exacto knife and cut around
the outer edge of my image.

Hubby was so pleased with his new logo sign he requested
a University of Wisconsin "W" too.
Of course I had to create one.😉

They now proudly hang in our bar area.

That's it for this week.
Until Next Time,
Veronica

A State Of Disarray

I don't do well in disarray.

I'm the type of person who likes

clean and orderly.

That being said, there are times

that I will tolerate the disarray.

This is one of those times.

This is the current state of our kitchen.

I have no oven or cooktop.
Thank goodness for slow cookers and microwaves.

Also, no sink or working dishwasher.

And no counter tops.

I'm using scrap pieces of boards for counter tops.

But I'm o.k. with the disarray

because our kitchen remodel is FINALLY underway.

YEAH!!!

You don't know how much you appreciate
and take for granted something until you
don't have it.

Thankfully, we have a utility sink in our
basement that I'm using to wash our dishes in.
I'm getting lots of exercise running up and
down the stairs. Having our kitchen remodeled
is keeping me in shape.
That's always a good thing.

Hopefully, if there aren't any glitches along the way

we should have an updated kitchen soon.

Stay tuned for our new kitchen reveal.

Until Next Time,

Veronica