Category: barn board

Mermaid Framed in Barn Board

I haven’t posted for over three months because I’ve just been too busy. I still am, but felt I should let my readers know I’m still here working away.

This is a mermaid I made months ago from strips of wood. I made a similar mermaid in blues and turquoise last year.  You can see her HERE. Some of these strips are made with napkins glued to the wood, to look painted.

This mermaid was fit into barn board, it was a painstaking process and the whole piece took me over 40 hours to complete. She does not sit flat, purposely made to curve from head to tail, so she sticks out from the barn board more in some places such as her tail and her hand.

This piece measures 30″ x 20″ and was sold a few weeks ago to a man who’s wife had come in to my shop and told him about it. He came back by himself and bought her the mermaid for an anniversary gift!

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Another Whale

Hers’s another whale I made, it is the same shape as the whale I shared the other day HERE . This time I used a very old piece of wood 36″ long by a full 11 1/2″ wide. I call this a reverse cut out since I use the outside or background of the shape. I don’t know if that is the technical term for it, maybe I just made that up?

On the back are separate strips of thin plywood painted in different beachy colours.
 
It is made in the same style as my mermaid 

HERE

 
The mermaid is SOLD but the whale is in my shop along with other designs.
 
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Carved Heart and Initials

Since this is a slow time around here I’ve been experimenting with some new ideas for my shop. I’ll get to those some other time because I thought I should first get some Valentines related projects made and available in my etsy shop. 

I have created this from 100 year old Prince Edward Island barnboard. Each piece is cut from the original 11 1/2″ wide boards with character that can only be obtained by years of weathering. I used a router to carve out the heart which is about 8″ x 8″ and the initials which are 1 1/2″ tall and from 1″ to 1 1/2″ wide. Of course it is supposed to look as if initials are carved into a tree!

 
I think this looks small in photos, but it’s 15 1/2″ tall x 11 1/2″ wide x 1/2″ thick.

You can see the texture of this beautiful barnboard by looking at the next photo.
 



On the back is a hanger.

 


Here it is hanging in my shop with a few other items for sale.
 


 
Available through my Etsy shop 

Heart Carved Sign


Two New Seahorse Wall Hangings

I quickly made two new seahorses similar to the one I shared in my last post

The new wall hangings are smaller and not quite the same.  I used beadboard but didn’t cut out the seahorse shape, instead I routed a groove around the shape and painted inside the line.
 
I sanded the whole piece and then framed one with old wood, probably strapping, and the other with old Barnboard. 
seahorse  
seahorse  
These pieces are each about 22″ high and 11″ wide.
 
 

Barn Board Framed Potato Sack

I live in O’Leary which is the potato capital of Prince Edward Island.  It is home to the Canadian Potato Museum which has many displays and information about potato farming, a potato restaurant, and also has a giant potato outside.

Last fall at the potato museum, I bought two burlap potato sacks and used them this week to make two different framed pieces.

The first one uses some of the barn board that I used for a couple signs and blogged about here. I cut some boards to about 4″ wide and made a rabbet in the back to hold the mdf board which the burlap is wrapped around. The corners are mitred and the board really has a lot of texture to it as you can see in the close-up photo.

This wall décor is quite large at 23″ wide x 32″ tall.

You can see the second framed sack at my next blog post here

Everything I make is available for sale in my shop, or online through my blog, website, facebook pages or email:

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Old Barn Board

I bought a stack of about island barn board that is about 100 years old, last fall.  The person I bought it from had taken it off an old barn nearby.  Some of it is 12″ wide and many pieces still have nails in them.

Here’s a sign I recently made and sold with a piece of that wood, it’s about 23″ x 9″

I made another one yesterday with the same wording and font, but of course every piece of wood is different, and this one is a big larger.

On another note, I received a lovely gift of flowers from my mother-in-law, congratulating me on the opening of my shop.  It was a nice surprise… thanks Thelma!

Shop is Open and My First Walk-in Custom Order

My shop in O’Leary is now open and here are a few of the things I have for sale:
On Mother’s Day in Prince Edward Island it is tradition to have lobster since May is the opening of the lobster fishery.  The day before Mother’s Day the lady that lives next door to my shop brought me a fully cooked lobster!  (Isn’t that the coolest thing?)  Here he is sitting on my shop counter:
I had my first walk-in order from Eileen, who lives in a small community nearby.  She wanted a sign to put in her garden and she likes barn board, script fonts and beach type décor, so this is what we came up with.

She just loves it, and I do too!

Sign for our Real Estate Agent

We had a wonderful real estate agent.  He showed us houses all over Prince Edward Island, without hesitation.  We had no idea where to buy, so we looked at a lot of different communities before we chose O’Leary.

Our agent, Omid Talebi, is of the Baha’i faith and sends out his emails with a quote at the bottom, after his name.  Since he uses this regularly in correspondence, I felt the words must be significant to him, so as a thank you I made him a sign with this quote painted on it. It’s made on old barn board, the edges are painted white along with the lettering. I made it before I left Ontario.

Unity Sign: 11 1/2″ high x 19″ long
Thanks again, Omid!
I enjoy making personal gifts like this, they always seem to be appreciated.

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