Whew – what a weekend! I am exhausted!! I wanted to hop on the computer several times while the family was here but I was either cooking, talking, catching up or shopping. So my apologies for not getting to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving on the day proper! I hope everyone had a great time with family and friends. And I know I have a ton of you who left comments last week that I need to stop by and see! I am on my way!!
Now that we are officially past Thanksgiving – I am going to start posting some Holiday ideas and crafts. I just can’t bring myself to do it until after the turkey has been served. I drug out all my Christmas decor this weekend and have most of it up! I also worked on some holiday crafts – one of which I would like to share with you today! If your like me, you like to flip through your favorite decorating catalogs to get ideas or drool over the things that are perfect but soooo expensive. One of my favorites to do this with is Pottery Barn. So this year – when I got my first catalog – I was flipping through and saw this beauty.
Photo via Pottery Barn
Now – their version was made from metal and cost $149. It is no longer available for purchase – so they must have sold out. Even at that price. I took one look at this and thought – I can do that! And I did. For $8. Here is how!
For starters – I picked up some chip board letters from Hobby Lobby for $1.99 a piece. I laid them out in the design that I wanted.
Next I flipped them over and used some old scrap pieces of thin wood to glue the letters together at the places where they met.
Once that was dried and felt secure – I flipped it back over. Originally, my plan was to spray paint it ORB but it was too cold today to do that. So instead I pulled out my bottle of Raw Umber acrylic paint. Gave it the perfect finish.
So here it is up on my faux mantel! I love how it turned out! Just as beautiful as the catalog version and at 95% off the cost!
Don’t you just love it? Here is another close up!
I will show you the rest of my holiday mantel tomorrow! Hope your excited to see it!
What about you? Planning any catalog knockoffs this season? Think you might try this one out? I wanna know!
Linking this to
Metamorphosis Monday with Susan from Between Naps on the Porch
Boardwalk Bragfest with Jan from Bobbypins Boardwalk
Get Your Craft On with Kim from Today’s Creative Blog
And I am linking this up for the CSI Projects Painted Christmas Challenge!
84 frugal friends said ...
That is amazing! Love it!!
This is wonderful! Very smart- I wish I had a Hobby Lobby nearby as I would be out the door the minute I hit Post Comment.
I do love it! I'm totally copying this idea! What a wonderful solution to something so pretty. Great job!
Ahhh, very clever of you. It's fantastic!
Great idea! Looks amazing!
Super cute! I might have to borrow this idea!
I absolutely LOVE this!! :) Definitely gonna give this a try!
Very clever! Thanks for sharing. I may have to copy this. Love it!
Isn't it exciting to start Christmas decorating. I definitely started when we got home from our meal with my parents on Thanksgiving day :o) I love you "knock-off" even better than Pottery Barns. I love their stuff too, for inspiration. Great job and thanks for sharing!
Love it! And with Hobby Lobby a mere 20 minutes away, will definitely be using this idea!
perfect! and spot on! also, it reminds me of the LOVE sculpture in philly, so i love it even more!
This is brilliant! I LOVE a Pb knockoff....and yours about knocked me unconscious. Love it!
I wamy to knock off those PB candles wrapped in sheet music. Will have to pull out my stash of vintage ephemera.
It's WONDERFUL! I just came over from Censational Girl, and I'm definitely coming back. :)
CUTENESS!!! Love it.
i got here via Centsational Girl... and i'm going to "knock-off" this one, too! lovely! =)
Great stuff! I love it! It looks great. :)
Totally cute!
That is brilliant! I am heading to the craft store tomorrow for sure!!! :o)
Totally awesome, and totally easy! Kudos!
That is great! Love your site! Thanks for sharing your great ideas!
That is so cool and even better for people in Australia, like me, that can't even buy from Pottery Barn anyway!
You're fantastic! The best and cheapest knock-off I've ever seen!!! Love love Love it!
I would be honored to have you add it to my blog party
Amaze Me Monday Blog Party
Oh, wow! These are awesome! I saw these in the catalog too and thought, no way I'm paying that much. You really did a phenomenal job on this and I think I'll be heading out to HL today to pick up my own letters.
I'd love it if you'd come over and link this up to Favorite Things Friday.
http://thespeckleddog.blogspot.com/search/label/Favorite%20Things%20Friday
~ The Speckled Dog
This has to be one of my favorite of your projects. It turned out amazing!
WOW! I absolutely love this! I have seen those letter so many times and never once thought about attaching them together. This is fabulous!
Jess, your sign is terrific. I really love what you did with it. A keeper for sure. Glad you stopped by. Jane
OMG! This is so cute! I am making one TODAY! Thanks for making me feel productive and festive :)
Absolutely AWESOME!!!!
:-)
Layla
Oh my gosh I started making this last night!
I'll have to show to you when I'm done :-)
Looks perfect!
I turned out perfect and I can't believe how inexpensive it was! Excellent knock-off!
I love this and will also copy your idea for our home!
That being said and just a technicality... I think your version was 5% of the cost of PB's version. ;)
Love it! The first letter of each of my kids names start with NOEL (Nicholas, Olivia, Elizabeth, Lauren) so we have a lot of wall hangings and frames and stuff with NOEL on them. Will have to make this with them.
I love this! I looked at that NOEL sign on PB and wondered how to make it! Now you did it. I am inspired to try my own. Thanks for sharing.
Denise
i saw this in the catalog and immediately went to hobby lobby for the letters but all i could find at the time were the standard gold letters which i love but gold is really not us. going back today to see about the ones you used but i am curious....what is ORB paint?? i didn't see anyone else ask so i am sure i am going to feel so silly when you tell me what it is, but for the life of me, i can't figure it out. thanks for the tutorial because we couldn't figure out how to get them to stay together without being on a board of some kind and that kind of ruined the look.
GENIUS!! seriously! what a great flipping idea!!! i might need to do this with a few different word combos b/c i am in looove!
thanks for sharing your amazingness! =)
xoXOxo
Jenn L @ Peas & Crayons
that turned out SO CUTE!
when I first saw it I thought you used some sort of saw or something...just wooden pre-cut letters! so nice :o)
My kind of project
Lori
Saw this on Anna White's FB page & thought for sure you did this with a jigsaw. Boy was I glad to know it was done so quick & easy & no power tools involved lol. What size are the letters? I only have HL online. Thanks
This is great!!! Thanks for the idea! I hope you'll let me correct your small typo... It should be 95% "off" the cost. :)
Great Idea! Love, Love, Love it!!!
I saw this on Centsational Girl & Anna White...after that, I knew I had to visit your site and now I'm your newest follower. Check out my design and decor site, www.sasinteriors.blogspot.com and become a follower too! THX!!!
~Jenna, SAS Interiors
Love this! I haven't started to decorate for the holidays yet because we've been out of town but I'm so excited to get started. (I need to unpack first.) I hope I can find these letters at my AC Moore or Michaels since we don't have a Hobby Lobby.
I am SO making this! I love, love, love it!
I LOVE that! I am definitely going to be making my own Christmas word out now. =)
Hey, do you think you can copycat one of these word shelves? =D http://www.pgrahamdunn.com/shelves/
Looks great! My Christmas decorations are usually sorta tacky santa stuff--but maybe I'll class it up a little this year!
I want to do the ball tree! How do you do that?
Oh my! I just thought about doing this last week when I saw PB's version. I thought, "I could do this!" Thanks for posting this!! Looks great!
Thanks for the great idea, I'm going down to HL right now and pick up the letters. You just made my day!
Just chiming in with everyone else to say - how very clever of you!! Love it.
-Rene
This is great! It looks better than the PB one! Thanks for sharing.
Nice!!! I think I deserve a trip to Hobby Lobby!
What a great post! I would love for you to link this up to my linky party! http://danajeanward.blogspot.com/2010/11/link-up-giveaway-and-winner.html
So smart idea,and easy to make....Love.IT :)
Milijana
Too funny! I made the exact same thing using the exact same letters from HB. I painted mine a blueish color and made a hanger from twine. It's hanging on my front door! I wish I had time to blog about it!
You have got to be joking that they charged that much for it!! I bet they weren't selling anymore because no one would shell out the moolah for one. I hope anyway!! Not when we have such thrifty crafters like you to show us how to do it on the cheap!!
This is AMAZING!! Found your site via Ana White's FB page and I am in awe!
For those of you that don't have a Hobby Lobby close, you can order the letters online as well. The shipping is only $2.95 (No minimum order) and there's a code for 40% off one item. I ordered letters for the Noel, also those to spell Joy, another set of Noel letters for my friend (who saw the post as well) along with a 16 oz. bottle of acrylic paint....all for $28 bucks!
Thank you for the share, I can't wait until the letters get here!
I came from Between Naps On the Porch.
Fabulous! That is really cool! Well done! You could to a LOVE one like the stamp from the 70's for Valentine's Day.
Love Stamp: http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/artofthestamp/subpage%20table%20images/artwork/love/1973%20Love/love1973.htm
Well done and LOVE it!!
You're lucky to have Hobby Lobby who had this letter font ready to go! (No H.L. down here in S. FL)
Merry Christmas!
:D Lynda
very cute and well done!
I may have to try this. I've had these wooden letters for NOEL that I haven't done anything with yet. Thanks for the inspiration!
I LOVE that! It totally goes on my list of things to do! Thanks for sharing!
I love it. Great minds think alike. I actually did the same thing with letters fromn JoAnn's. I think your letters are more the PB style, and smaller so you can fit it anywhere. I may head to HL to get some of those for elsewhere in the house.
You can check out my PB NOEL sign here:
http://cowtownkc.blogspot.com/2010/11/pottery-barn-knock-off-noel-sign.html
I walked by the letters at HL and thought of this project. I just love it. You did a great job -- hopefully mine looks as good as yours!!
I featured you today on my blog - today's top twenty!
Amanda
todaystoptwenty.blogspot.com
I loved the NOEL in Pottery Barn too! Yours turned out great. I can't wait to make them.
Great project!! i'll have to give this a try!
This is fabulous, and apparently the rest of Blogworld agrees with me becuase I think that everyone has left you a comment (haha). What a great project. You outdid yourself, Jess! IT LOOKS LIKE METAL! Amazing. Thank you for sharing this on the Boardwalk Bragfest!
Great job! Can't wait to try it out!
Thanks for sharing!
www.theivycottageblog.blogspot.com
-Amanda
Thanks so much for answering my question. Yay they do have them online but they're wood & not chipboard like I was searching for lol Thanks again.
This looks great! I am jealous I didn't think of it myself!!
You can bet your last dollar that I am going STRAIGHT to Hobby L. to get these letters (IF they still have any left) and do this.
You did GREAT..I can't wait to try it and if it turns out half good, you'll see it on my blog soon. :))
Thanks so much!
LOVE it! Clever girl!
Looks terrific Jess!!! I love that you showed us simple and cheap for an expensive piece!
LOVE this! I went to HL last week trying to make the exact same thing, and wouldn't you know, they were out of the O and the L. Me, being too impatient to wait (and almost a little too cheap to want to pay 2 bucks a letter...I know) I picked up a piece of foam board for a buck and cut the letters out of that, painted them, glued together and tada! PB for $148 (plus shipping) less than the rest of those suckers paid! ;)
Love this! *Becca*
Love it!!!!!!!!
I'm heading out to HL today - hope they have these letters at my store!
I finished mine up yesterday and finally wrote about it tonight.
I liked my post back to you of course!!
Thanks again! :-)
http://www.organizationalhysteria.com/2010/12/think-happy-thoughts.html
I just bought my supplies today to make this project! I couldn't find letters as plain as yours (only boxy ones or swirly ones) so I went with the swirly. Hope it turns out!
Just dropping by to let you know that I linked to this post in a round up today from the Home & Garden channel at Craft Gossip. :) This will appear in the main Craft Gossip RSS feed, on the main home page and can be found directly here
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I love Hobby Lobby chip board letters!! They're the best! Great job with the NOEL! Looks fabulous. Found you through TDC - YEA!
This looks so much easier than I thought I would. So cute. I am featuring this at somedaycrafts.blogspot.com
Thank you for this brilliant idea! It's one of the *facepalm* why didn't I think of that moments. Here's mine: http://prizedpixels.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-post.html
This is really cool!! Good job! I want to do this in like an antiqued white. Love it!
Love this! Had to blog about it. Thanks for sharing!
Hey Jess! Feel free to check out my version...since it's after Christmas I made a slight change! Hope you like it!
http://westcoastleslie.blogspot.com/2011/01/happy-new-year.html
Happy New Year!
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