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DIY “Relax” Blue Ombre Pallet Sign

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Happy Summer you guys! I have the CUTEST DIY for you this week! I found this adorable mini pallet at Michael’s for 70% off (it came out to less than $7!). I knew right away I wanted to paint it and hang it on our porch. Take a look at how it came out and keep reading to see what I did…

 

DIY Wooden Pallet Relax Sign with Blue Ombre

This is what I started out with from Michael’s…Cute, but I was thinking a dark blue to light blue ombre would look even better.

DIY Wooden Pallet Relax Sign with Blue Ombre

This project took me 10 minutes. No lie. I took a navy blue acrylic paint, and added a little white as I went down to create the ombre effect. I then used my Cricut to add the letters and seahorse on. If you don’t have a Cricut, just use stickers like these, and it will look super similar (just don’t put outside if you’re using normal stickers and not outdoor vinyl).

DIY Wooden Pallet Relax Sign with Blue Ombre

That’s all there is to it! So easy, you don’t even need a step by step! Only 2 steps to this = paint + add letters! Oh, and then hang it for everyone to ask where you bought it 🙂

DIY Wooden Pallet Relax Sign with Blue Ombre

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DIY Wooden Pallet Relax Sign with Blue Ombre

Navy Blue Hallway Makeover

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I wanted to share this little project I did at the beginning of Summer in an upstairs hallway of ours. We have an addition on our house with vaulted ceilings and white trim and shelving everywhere, so when Charlie told me he wanted the room navy blue when we first moved in I was pretty hesitant. I imagine a lot of other people feel the same way I did – that a dark paint color will make your room look small and just too damn dark. Well, I’m here to tell you I WAS WRONG. I am officially obsessed with navy. But let me first say we didn’t end up going with a dark navy, it’s more of a medium shade of navy and it’s absolutely perfect. We decided to paint the hallway off of this room with extra paint of this same color and hang this beautiful seahorse picture on the wall (don’t forget I am a seahorse addict. Give me all the seahorse things).

So here is the hallway before the paint job (sorry the lighting is awful. It was gloomy on this day, which is actually the reason I decided to stay inside and get some painting done).

Another view of the hallway before…

And here it is after! WE LOVE IT!

The seahorse picture actually goes with it perfectly too. We bought that at Home Goods a few years ago and knew we wanted to hang it up here somewhere, and this spot turned out to be perfect. I almost wish this hallway was a little bit bigger so I could put a little corner table with a lamp or something in there, but it’s still an adorable little space.

This project took me only two hours and completely transformed the hallway. So the lesson today is: don’t be scared of navy blue! I say at least give it a try!

The color we used: Santorini Blue by Sherwin Williams

 

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American Flag Pallet

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Charlie’s brother works in construction and has gotten his hands on a couple mini wooden pallets for me the past couple summers (last year I made this sea life pallet garden on one). I’ve had this one sitting around for a while trying to figure out what I wanted to do with it…and then it hit me: an American Flag pallet for the 4th of July! Perfect! It took me an hour altogether and I spent $10 on exterior paint (you can actually get it cheaper with sample paint sizes at Home Depot, but I got my paint at Michael’s). Here’s the pallet before (I added blue painters tape to tape of where the blue part of the flag would be)…

This is the paint I used…



And here it is all painted before the stars were added. I roughed up the paint a little with sand paper to give it a more rustic look which you can see closer up in the photo after this one…

I used my Cricut with Oracal 651 white vinyl to cut and put the stars on. If you don’t have a Cricut, I would just paint them on. You can see the spots I roughed up with sand paper better here too…

And that’s all there is to it! In one hour you can have something like this to display in July! Your neighbors will be asking where you bought it and be wowed when you say you made it!

 

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