Time for a little silly project.
We are Harry Potter fans over here, and I've been eyeing lots of cute "Free Dobby" lost sock signs on Pinterest. Now that the
laundry room is up & running, I decided to make one.
Supplies:
-I found board out in the workshop (already the right size and painted!)
-I had metallic craft paint & paint brush left over from doing the
stencils in the master closet.
-I bought some letter stencils, but didn't end up using them! Instead I used tissue paper & a pencil to trace the letters that I liked online.
-I used a blue sharpie for outlining, and then blue ribbon to hang the board & the clothes pins.
I put "tissue paper" in the supply list, but I used wax paper. I wasn't thinking about how that would make marks on the computer screen as I was tracing! Oops! Luckily it all wiped off with a little effort, but save yourself the trouble and use tissue paper instead!
After tracing the letters off the computer screen, I flipped the paper over and traced the backside of it.
This will allow me to lay it right on the board and trace it again on the front side, so that the pencil lead from the back will transfer to the board.
It's faint, but then you can just go over it again directly on the board, if needed.
Yes- a lot of tracing, but makes it easier for those of us who can't free-hand the letters!
Next I got to work painting the silver inside the lines.
It wasn't as crisp as I wanted, so I decided to use a blue sharpie to outline the letters. The sharpie gave me better control than I had with the little paint brush.
Then I took a stable gun and attached some blue ribbon for hanging on the wall, and also for hanging socks from.
I should mention here that I wish we only had 5 single socks around here... there's actually a bucket of them sitting on top of the dryer! This may motivate me to go through them though and toss any that are never going to find their mate!!!
There was one imperfection with the Butler's Pantry cabinetry... It had a hole that had once been cut for an outlet to go. Since our space was longer than the space the cabinetry was originally built for, this was now exposed. I thought about patching it, but decided that would draw more attention to it, and if we re-finished the sides to blend it in, we'd lose that rustic patina.
I figured that hanging something over it would be the easiest fix, but it's sort of in an awkward spot though. I decided to just wait and see if I could find something to cover it up that would make sense at that height. 
At a tag sale over the summer, I found the fix! This cute little rectangle basket was just .25! I took a yellow ribbon that I had up with my sewing stuff and just hung it over the hole. Then I put some of our family recipes in it. Now those are kept handy too!
