An Exercise in Futility

I know, I know! "Hannah, you're the cake blogger!" Last night I started working on a project and thought, "This could be a good one to blog about!"

Last week was "The World's Longest Yard Sale". The "Yard Sale" is locate on US 127 which starts in Hudson, MI and travels south ending in Gadsden, AL. My mom has a spot that she rents on a farm in Verona, KY. There are many vendors there and from one of these vendors is whom I purchased my letter from! My letter is a 2 1/2 foot H! :) The letter was obviously part of a larger, lighted sign. My idea was to cover it with material and place it on the wall! (thinking that yes, I already have material and I don't have any paint I could use!)

So, as I said I had already started this project when I decided to use it for a blog post so this was my attempt at a "before picture"

This is the bolt of cloth I already had and thought I'd use since it matches the color scheme in my kitchen.

You can see the wiring in place inside the letter. This is my "in progress picture". I spent an hour cutting and taping the material to the letter... This is the finished letter on my wall, it looks just fine (from 15-20 weeks away...)

This is the finished letter on my wall, it looks just fine (from 15-20 weeks away...) Up close you could see some of the tape and not all of the material was laying flat.... I was not impressed... So I changed my mind! I ripped all the material off and decided to leave it bare (it's blue which also matches my kitchen!) :)

I ripped all the material off and decided to leave it bare (it's blue which also matches my kitchen!) :)

I now have a few things on it, using it as a shelf, don't know if I'll leave them on there or not. And probably one of these days I'll paint it! :) I'll probably stick with the blue! But I've definitely learned that it's harder than you think to put material over little curves like there are on this H! :) And I think I might just stick to cakes! :) I don't know, we'll see!

Comments

Parson's Wife said…

Maybe you should ice it!!

August 9, 2011 at 1:52 PM

Heidi said…

I'm thinking it needs some dramatic blue paint!

August 11, 2011 at 8:36 AM

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