I hope that you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving with your families! I know that this year it felt like i had more to be thankful for then normal… My family and handsome boyfriend were top on my list!
Here is a shot of us all at the dinner table :)
(Sorry mom, love you!)
With Christmas being right around the corner, it is totally normal that I can't wait to decorate the house and create new DIY Christmas crafts! So lets get to it… I am totally obsessing over burlap lately along with my two older sisters so I knew that I wanted to incorporate burlap into my craft. For an early Christmas gift my mom bought Jason and I a gorgeous hutch for our dining room so I wanted to make something specifically to go on it!
I went to the dollar store and purchased three picture frames
Next, I went to my computer and printed out a jumbo letter "J" a snowflake and letter "Y". If you haven't caught on, it spells JOY with the snowflake as the "O". I made sure to print them on thicker computer paper so they would last while I was tracing them onto the burlap.
Once printed, I cut them all out and traced them on burlap…but first I traced the glass from my picture frame on the burlap so that I knew when I was tracing the letters that they would be centered.
I traced them with a silver sharpie marker also purchased at the dollar store!
Once they were all traced and I cut the squares out, I wanted to put them in the frames to make sure that I was on the right path!
Here's how it looked so far…
Now it was time to paint them… I just used paint that I had around the house, nothing in particular. It was actually paint that I had used to pain our trim when we moved in to our house (bye bye pink 70's trim!)
I chose a very tiny paintbrush to paint inside of the letters because I had never painted burlap and wasn't sure what to expect. It was totally the way to go and I recommend it if you take on this DIY!
Once they were painted, I set them in front of the fireplace to dry quickly!
Once dry, I put them back in the frames!
I love, love, love them! It was so simple and took no time at all to make. Finally, it was time to put it on the hutch!
It is still a work in progress but it's coming along nicely. I just need to purchase a couple of new knobs for the drawers and some garland to spruce it up a bit. I hope you guys love it as much as I do!
xoxo,
Paige
