Rainy Day Project

Yesterday was a rainy spring day.

Living in the desert, we do not complain when it rains.

These spring showers do wonders to green up our dry old landscape.

What I did yesterday was surf the internet 
and while I was at Pinterest,

I found this photo of a diner sign.

(I added the white shapes before I printed it, just to save black ink)

I liked it so much, 

that I went out to Steve's workshop 

and found a scrap of plywood to make my own.

 After drawing it, I laid in my colors

and then went back to the workshop 

and cut it out on the band-saw.

The real diner sign had little lights in the arrow.

I cut a small piece of paper and then

used a paper hole punch to make a stencil to paint my lights:)

After I had it painted and all my shadows laid in,

I roughed it up with sand paper,

then took it out and beat it with a rock and a couple of garden tools.

The vintage look can't be too fresh and new, you know :)

Here it is finished laying on the table.

Today it is raining again:)

Here it is hanging over the kitchen door.

I think that I made good use of my rainy day.

What do you think?

Have a great day . . .

and sneak a little bit of fun into it if you can.

Your blogging sister,

Connie :)