Jett's Chicks

Sometimes my Mom gives me a project to do. It's hard to tell which ones she's serious about and which ones she's not. Sometimes I'm ready to go, and I tell her I'll come over on Saturday, and she's like, "Nah, never mind." So that keeps things interesting.

She recently got some chickens. She got a chicken coop from Costco and she wanted a sign for my little nephew Jett. She wanted an actual jet airplane on the sign. I thought that might be a little confusing, so I wanted to put his name in the jet.

I wanted to use the vinyl cut from my Silhouette machine as a stencil. So I painted everything white and the put down my stencil.

Due to a cutting error, there are two chicks that didn't cut out properly and were added later. That was the first problem.

You can buy transfer paper, but I read online that Glad's Press N Seal works just as well. And it does.

But it looked like crap. I was irritated. Problem two.

So I painted over it. And could still see the outline and it needed to be sanded.

So I sanded it, decided I liked the distressed look, and put the vinyl right on top. then I polyurethaned over the top so the vinyl wouldn't peel up. It is going outside.

Lilly the cat was not happy about her special napping place being my workspace.

Of course the board split when I screwed the (supposed to be self-drilling but it was LIES) screws. So I glued it and clamped it and left it overnight and that took care of problem three.