Way back over the summer, it was Kerrie's Birthday. I searched high and low for the "perfect" present and couldn't find anything just right for her. Disappointingly, there were no decent broadway shows in Buffalo. So I got creative (somewhat).
Kerrie has been running since last fall(ish) and running races since February (Her first race, she came in 3rd in her age group. My first race, I came in last.)
She ran Broad Street with me, we ran the Buffalo Half Marathon this past May, the Erie County 5k and the Tops 10k.
I wanted something for her to keep her race bibs in and a way to display the race medals.
Supplies:
* Piece of wood. I used a
* Paint - (This is actually paint we used for some of the nursery projects)
* Hooks
I quickly painted two coats green onto the wood one afternoon.
While the paint was drying, I printed off a template for the words.
I just used Pages on my computer and played around with the fonts and spacing until it was something that I liked.
I just used Pages on my computer and played around with the fonts and spacing until it was something that I liked.
Next, I traced the outline of each letter onto the wood with a pen.
This left a little indent around each letter. I then painted in each and every letter. This took forever.
Next up was adding the hooks for the bibs and metals.
These were supposed to be screwed in but I could only get them to go in so far.
I suppose if I would have predrilled a hole it would have been easier, but I just screwed them as far as I could, then tapped them with a hammer.
Of course, I tried it out with my race bib and a couple of my metals before wrapping it up for Kerrie.
I love how it turned out and Kerrie says she loves it.
It only took her 2 months to realize that I spelt kilometers wrong. Ooops.
I have been thinking of making one for myself.... Now that I got all my spelling woopsies out of the way.
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