Floating Hexagon Shelves!

For my birthday, I asked Walter to create me some hexagon shelves. As everyone has seen, they are quite the trendy thing right now, yet they are so expensive to buy! In addition, everywhere i've seen them for sale, they are tiny! They couldn't even hold a book, which to me seems as if it defeats the purpose.

My condo has the perfect wall for hexagon shelves, and I thought they would be a great craft for him. When I finally got my rtf shelves, I was sooo impressed. He made 3 of them, and said we were going to finish them together.

Since we didn't know what to do first, I painted the insides of one hexagon and he stained the outside of a different hexagon. Rookie mistake. Painting before staining never ends well. The stain is much darker than the paint and if it splatters in the slightest, you gotta repaint. I also should've looked up how to stain wood. We were putting on way too much stain, which made the drying time seem like eternity.

When we finally finished staining the wood of all three shelves we had to repaint the insides. This is when Walter came up with an awesome idea to add patterns to inside of the shelves. To make the pattern stand out, but also remain subtle, we used a metallic color in the same shade as the base. He taped off the designs with painters tape.

Pretty soon we had 3 awesome looking shelves!

Andddddd all three shelves are finally mounted....

Marquee A&W Letters!

Recently,  I've really, really been wanting to make marquee letters to stick up somewhere in my house. I thought it would be really cute to have A&W (My boyfriend's name being the W). However, I've had a really hard time finding the right font or material. Either the letters were a good size, RTF wood, but a really awful font or the wrong dimensions. Not to mention it needs to have room in the back for the wiring to sit. After a couple hours on pinterest and a few trips to craft stores, I decided on some paper mache letters from Ben Franklin.

Next I needed to figure out how I wanted to paint them. Pinterest was full of bunch of different ideas, which eventually led me to Kristen's Blog on Metallic Letters. While she made hers with black Apple Barrel Paint, I decided to speed things up with spray paint- which still worked out fine.

After the paint dried, I decided to poke holes in the letter every inch or so. After the holes were punched, I added a bit of a rust color and dry brushed it over some of the holes.

 All three letters, finally finished...

For the lights, I chose Philips 50ct LED Mini Sphere lights- in warm white.  It's a little hard to see, so I've added a filter to help it show better.  Overall, awesome project and super fun. Stuffing the wires into the back was a little challenging, but nothing a little hot glue can't fix! :)

Craftsaquah Business Cards!

Very excited to announce that Walter and I just got our very own business cards for Craftsaquah Collective. It functions as a business card and a thank you note we can include in our etsy orders! I was so excited when I went to Moo, and saw they offer these super cute mini cards! The mini cards are available in regular business card paper or "Luxe". Of course, I opted for the Luxe. The double thick paper, and colored center really bring out the logo I think.