Memorial Day is a federal holiday celebrated each year on the last Monday in May to honor the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. It originated as Decoration Day after the Civil War as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. […]
To complete our birch plywood flower box, we chose to give it an antique look. A coat of white craft paint was applied both inside and outside of the box. Once dry, a thin coat of dark stain was applied with a soft cloth and then immediately wiped off with a clean cloth. This gives […]
In celebration of Mother’s Day, a nice way to display flowers in the home is in a birch plywood flower box. For our flower box we are using 18mm birch plywood, and the dimensions we chose for our box are 27” long, 7 1/2” wide and 5” tall. To complete this project you will need […]
To complete our spring sign project, we attached the wooden flags using craft glue and then painted the letters of spring on each flag. Since the flags are all different pastel colors, we used white paint for the letters. You could certainly purchase peel and stick letters to apply to the flags instead of painting […]