Greetings, friends!

It’s offical, the holidays are here and we’re kickin’ the season off big by joining in on a giant blog hop called Handmade Holidays. It’s three days of handmade, holiday goodness and today is all about the home decor.

Our holiday project is super easy (duh) and full of rustic charm because that’s how we roll around here.

As I’ve been perusing the holiday decor pictures on Instagram and Pinterest, I realized my decor crush this year was going to be wooden signs. There is just something so charming about a wooden holiday sign, with all its imperfections and personal touches, that I knew right away what we’d do for the Handmade Holiday blog hop.

The hardest part was deciding on what to write. I initially thought about doing something with ‘tree farm’ in it and then moved on to searching the internet for great Elf and Christmas Vacation quotes. After wasting several hours of my life reliving two of my favorite movies via memes, I settled on a classic, “& to all a good night.”

Rustic Wooden Holiday Sign Supplies

• Twine
• Mini ornaments
• One 1×10 piece of wood, X” long
•  Two 1×2 pieces of wood, X” long
• Two 1×2 pieces of wood, X” long
• Espresso wood stain
• DecoArt chalk paint in Lace????
• DecorArt paint in X
• Paint brush
• Nails
• Hammer
• Carbon paper

How to Make a Rustic Wooden Holiday Sign

Paint the 1×10 with the Lace chalk paint and stain the 1×2 pieces in Espresso wood stain.

Print out your text – the font I used was called Playlist in size 350pt.

Place the text on the sign, on top of carbon paper, making sure the font is going straight across the board.

Trace the font onto the board and fill it with the black paint.

Once everything is dried, it’s time to attach the frame.

I used a hammer and nails to secure the 1x2s to the 1×6. On the shorter pieces, I secured the piece at the top and the bottom. For the longer pieces, I nailed them together four times along the edge.

After the frame was assembled, I nailed four nails to the back, leaving about 1/4″ sticking out for the twine to wrap around.

To make the twine ornament garland, I strung the ornaments individually onto the twine and secured them in place with a knot.

After the garland was put together, I strung it onto the wooden sign by securing it to the nails and tucking in the ends to the back.

Lastly, I added a picture hardware to the back in case I wanted to hang it… you know, once we actually start decorating for Christmas 🙂

Be sure to check out the other great bloggers participating in this blog hop below.

And a huge thank you to the sponsors of Handmade Holiday.

And don’t forget to enter into this great giveaway!

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All our best,

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