Fabulous Fridays Link-Up #2

Simple DIY project for the weekend...spruce up that house address.

Every home and area has a different way of showing their number,

A metal plaquard is very popular,

or just numbers mounted to your brick,

or maybe a little fancy sign,

or a BIG fancy sign :)

ours was that ugly 3" metal numbers on the fascia, ugh, I wanted to do something more unique and use some sort of stone to tie into the stone columns of our fence, inspiration.....

So we picked up a managable stone from a local stone wholesale warehouse, it was only $ .40 a pound, so at 120 lbs, it came out to $48, which is alot cheaper than most of those custom plaques you order, it's a large piece of travertine, I think, and has great lines of color through it, its really pops when it's wet, I think I might get a sealer for it to make it look like that all the time. Anyways, we picked up bronze numbers from Home Depot, and used construction adhesive to adhere to the stone (this adhesive works awesome, but is super messy and hard to get off your hands, wear gloves!). I put a piece of painters tape across the stone and made sure it was level to use as a guide for setting the numbers.

 and voila, I love how this turned out!

Okay, now onto the Fabulous Friday Link Up, please share ideas, craft, DIY, whatever you want :)

A Little Bit of Chevron Please

I love all things Chevron, and after pinning a million things on Pinterest, okay maybe not a million, but I remembered I had a large white canvas in my craft closet, so I thought I'd try my hand at doing a simple clean Large scale Chevron painting for my living room. Before we even begin, sorry about the bad pictures, I had left my camera at the office, so these are all wonderful phone pics :)

Being lazy resourceful, and not wanting to spend a million hours with a ruler, I cut the corner off of an envelope to use as my guide for taping off my Chevron pattern, after I taped all the straight lines, I went back and added a second layer of tape to make the white stripe thicker. 

I didn't have any white paint, so I improvised and used Duncan Collage Pauge Instant Decoupage in matte, mixed in a dime size drop amount of black acrylic, and then added a few drops of silver liquid leaf for a very light metallic effect. After mixing well I had a grey-wash kind of consistency.

Then I layered on two coats with a 1" sponge brush, making sure to start on the tape and drag the paint towards the middle, this helped ensure a nice crisp line when you pull off the tape. I also wrapped the paint on the side too, as I don't plan on hanging this in a frame, and wanted the gray to almost blend right into our walls.

Here's the finished project propped against my wall, so you can see how it almost blends with the dove grey color of our walls. I didn't really want a color that popped, I wanted it to be more of the Chevron pattern that popped. I haven't gotten around to hanging it yet, so check back later in the week, for a Completely finished pic :)