The Nested Design Company
Pallet & Barn Wood Projects
For me, one of the hardest aspects of blogging is remembering to photograph the steps of a project when I’m in the midst making something. I get so involved in the project that I am usually about half way through before I remember to start snapping. Not good, I know. Sometimes I don’t have enough hands! One of these days I’m going to have to invest in a tripod and camera with a timer!
We made a few awesome Christmas presents and wedding and shower gifts over the last few months and I want to share them with you.
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First up is our granddaughter Emilie’s headboard. Emmy is 14 and a huge Pinterest fan. She asked us to make this headboard for her for Christmas. Joe did a beautiful job. The boards are stacked, so every other board is raised. Emmy wanted a natural finish, so Joe used wipe on Minwax oil based satin finish polyurethane
Pallet Headboard
Our older daughter, Kate, fell in love with this pallet bar. We thought it would be a great Christmas surprise for her. The base of the bar is made with pallets and the top is made from old barn wood given to us by our nephew Bryan. It was stacked up on the property of the house he’s renovating in Pennsylvania. It’s beautiful old wood. We sanded it enough to smooth it, but made sure to leave paint and the sawmill marks intact, then sealed it with wipe on Minwax oil based polyurethane
Front View of the Bar
We’ve also made some signs for wedding gifts and engagement gifts and a few just for fun.
These signs were all made with the same basic supplies.
Pallet wood
Either vinyl lettering or a stencil made with my
In You Wedding Sign
And some close seconds!
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- Completely & Perfectly & Incadescently Happy (Jane Austin)
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- AND TWO BECAME ONE SIGN
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- MR & MRS SPLIT MONOGRAM SIGN
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- SPLIT MONOGRAM SIGN
And then there are a few just for fun
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- WICKED CHICKENS LAY DEVILED EGGS SIGN
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- Farmers Market Pallet Sign
For instructions on how to make your own signs using the Cricut Explore check out my Farmer’s Market Pallet Sign post.
If you would like to learn more about the Cricut Explore Air 2 and Cricut Maker
Pallets are a great to work with and the possibilities are endless. You’re only limited by your imagination.
The post “Pallet and Barn Wood Projects” is property of The Nested Design Company, formerly The Decorated Nest and was written by Karen Ploransky.
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Yay, nice roundup of some Pallet projects. I was looking around for some ideas that I can use to recycle some old pallets and wooden boxes and I love some of these projects. I think I will have to steal some. Thanks for the share.
Cindy
Steal Away Cindy! I have so many ideas that I want to try. Unfortunately the weather hasn’t been very good for hunting and grabbing pallets. Spring is supposed to come early according to that groundhog! Lets hope so. Thanks for popping in and once my new computer arrives, things are going to get a lot more active here so stay tuned!
Nice roundup!
Thanks Anne!