"I'll Have a Long Beard by the Time I Read Them"
I know, I know. I won’t really have a long beard, but I love the saying for my library area!
I’ve been looking for some sort of saying for my library for a long time and saw this one the other day. It makes me think of when I was a child…reading books…and oh how my imagination worked! I’d travel all over the world through the books that I read! I’venever always had an over worked imagination mind you!
Once again I can’t remember where I saw this saying…I’m sorry! I’m trying to remember to keep track of where I see things and get my ideas from! 
Any how, I wrote it down right away and put it at the top of my list of projects to do.
Any how, I wrote it down right away and put it at the top of my list of projects to do.I had some left over good one side plywood (in my pile of goods from my house renovations) and thought I could make a plank style wall hanging with it. I laid the planks out face down and lined them up how I wanted them. I cut two narrow strips of fur and attached them to the planks using wood glue and screws. I sanded everything really well and let it sit a bit. I’m quite an impatient person when it comes to projects like this so it probably didn’t sit as long as it could have. But it all held together.
I painted the top with white crafters paint. I didn’t feel like waiting the length of time I’d need to if I would’ve used regular paint. I painted the edges using the colour Antique Gold from Apple Barrel Colors. This is the color which I used for the rest of the wall hanging later on.
I will tell you that this whole process took a few days as I only worked on it an hour a night or so after work. I cut the vinyl (The font I used is called BoyzRGross. I don’t know where people ever come up with some of these names.) using my trusty Cameo and applied it to the sign. Here you can see a grey patch of paint which I painted using the colour Concrete Grey by Deco Art.
Once the grey paint was dry I put on the first layer of vinyl for the cover of the books. It’ll all make sense yet, trust me! Then I painted over the entire wall hanging with the Antique Gold. I did about 4 coats or so. It was usually late at night when I worked on this so do whatever works for you.
Once the paint was all dry I removed all the vinyl. Here you can see the grey books.
I used the vinyl for a stencil to paint the inside of the books, which I did using white paint.
I let everything dry really well while I was at work and then sanded the whole thing down with my power sander. Some of the letters kind of chipped away, but I did want the wall hanging to look old and tattered, if wood can look tattered…
I sealed the paint with a clear spray lacquer.
This shows the finished wall hanging from the side. I hung it up with wire attached to the back with screws. I didn’t get any proper pictures of the back…trust me, it looks very much liked I DIY’d the project!
This is how it looks…I can’t believe it’s actually finished. I’ve been living in my house for 2 years now and have wanted something put up in my library ever since I moved in!
Now I need to get the rest of my library area finished…the bookshelves are finally in and now trim is the next thing on my list. But that might be a while yet…
Happy Monday to you all!
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