The Wood Connection: My World Made By Hand Guest Post

Hello my fellow WOOD lovers!

I'm Jessica from

I'm a little kooky...a little scatterbrained...and totally real! For reals!!!
My writing is fragmented...and I use parenthesis and periods A LOT
...and I'm super, duper, uber excited to be Guest Posting at The Wood Connection today!

See...I have a fascination with The Wood Connection...

Ya, ya...I know! They'd look better FINISHED!

{working on that}

So, you can imagine my reaction when they asked me to guest post!

Yup! And not ashamed to admit it!

You don't even want to know what I did when they told me I get the product needed for my craft for FREE!!! AND that I get to give one of my readers a PRIZE!!!

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Okay...Okay...
I'm totally letting my excitement take hold of me again...

Focus...

Focus...

I must show you this awesome craft that I made using their products!

I know...right?!?! WAY CUTE!

And it was SUPER EASY!

I took a few of their photo boards {65 cents each - except for the big one - that was a little more}

And I painted them with this awesome RUST-OLEUM Specialty Chalk Board Paint...

This stuff is AH-MAZING! Super easy to use...dries super fast...and looks GREAT!

Anyway...I painted it on with a spongy thingy majingy...you know the kind right?!?

...and yes, I paint on Pampered Chef boxes...so?!?

....and yes, I am a MESSY painter!!!

My 8 year old daughter...we call her DIVA...asked me if I'd be able to write on my hands with chalk when these smudges dried?!? Just in case you were wondering too...tried it...didn't work!

While these bad boys were drying, I painted my letters...

well...actually...I sat back and watched my 14 year old try to figure out what they spelled out

...and then I painted them.

I just used acrylic paint for these. I only painted the sides and he inner edges of the top.

Then I took this really stinkin' cute paper...see...

told you it was cute!

I traced each letter on random pieces of this really cute stinkin' paper...

...and then cut it out. I'm old school and used scissors! Crazy right?!?

Using this glue that the uber cute girl at The Wood Connection gave me...I then glued the

paper letters onto the wood letters.

Now in the past, I would have used Mod Podge...and don't get me wrong, I love me some Mod Podge

...but this stuff...well it pretty much rocks my socks! Easy to use, dries quickly, looks great...wait a darned minute...didn't I just say that about something else?!? WEIRD!

I loved it SO much that I had to try it out some more...

so I did what any crafter would do...

I PUNCHED SOMETHING!!!