Day One Hundred Nineteen

This evening we had our very first group meeting at our house & it was a good turnout, if I do say so myself.

I had been wanting to do this project for a while & I finally gave myself the deadline of the group meeting to get it done.  I ordered the letters for our last name & then I had to find the perfect piece of old wood to display them on.....so I asked my dad!  Not because he's old, though.....

But because he like antique things that mean something to him just like I do.

So I stopped by on Saturday to pick up tables for the group meeting & daddy took me down to Nanny & Papa's to look in their shed.  Low & behold, leaning in the corner was an old piece of worn wood that held up Nanny's old clothes line.

Perfect.  I like the rustic look with the clean, black lines of the photo frames.  Since these photos were taken from rustic things, I think they should be displayed on something rustic.  Daddy helped me piece them together but cutting 2 smaller pieces & nailing them to the back.  Not a long project at all!

And this is how it is saying straight on the wall...

That's velcro you see back there folks.  I installed picture wire on the wood but when I hung it up it leaned forward......so, naturally, I found some velcro & put it to good use  :)  That's how us fancy schmancy designers work!  Ha!  And the photos are staying on the wood with velcro, too.  I'm telling you - industrial strength velcro can fix anything (just like duct tape!)

I love it.  It is unique & has more than one meaning behind it....not just the letters that spell out our family name, but using a piece of family history to display it.  Thanks for your help, daddy!

And I also scored an old fence post with barbed wire still on it from when my great-grandfather fenced in his property.  Thanks Uncle Ed for that unique piece, too!

All in a good days work!