DIY Irish Blessing Sign

We've recently "revamped" our family room a bit....(aka I finally repainted after the color I chose a year ago was NOT what I wanted!) I'm working towards putting in some finishing touches with decorative accents, and decided to DIY a few of course!

I thought I would DIY a "home" related sign and went in search of a nice quote to use.  I settled on an Irish Blessing - both my husband and I have a good amount of Irish in our blood and so I felt like I had a bit of a connection to the quote:

May you always have 

walls for the winds

and a roof for the rain,

Laughter to cheer you

and those you love near you

Here's how I put it on my sign:

I did this sign quick and easy with supplies on hand - no pre-planning involved :)

First thing was to paint an art canvas with some craft paint. 

Next, I typed the quote out into my Silhouette Studio and cut out my text using white vinyl

I used transfer paper to grab the letters of the vinyl:

And then laid it down on my canvas and smoothed it out with a credit card and VERY SLOWLY pulled the transfer paper off while pushing with the credit card to keep the letters on the canvas.

Voila! The base paint is kind of shiny so it was a little hard to photograph.

It's currently displayed on one of the book shelves in our family room.  I might tweak things a bit as I fill up the cases but here it is for now:

A cute little saying and certainly applicable after we received some unexpected news this week. My husband may be laid off but we still have our home and each other and wonderful friends and family.

A nice reminder when I'm in a not-so-nice mood lately and a cute project to display.  The fact that it's Irish like we are and that I made it makes it so much more special than anything I could have bought!

I'll be linking up to these parties:

Monday: CraftOManiac Monday, Making Monday Marvelous, Market Yourself Monday, Motivate Me Monday, Just Something I Whipped Up,, Made By You Mondays,  Making the World Cuter

Tuesdays:  Take-a-Look Tuesday, Show Me What Ya Got, Get Your Craft On, Homework

Wednesdays: Your Whims Wednesday, Creative Share Wednesday, We did it Wednesday, Sugar and Spice, Whatever Goes Wednesday, Show & Share,Lil Luna, The 36th Avenue 

Thursdays: Strut Your Stuff, Hookin Up With House of Hepworths, Catch a Glimpse

Friday: Friday Favs on Naptime Crafters, Weekend Wrap-Up Party, Frugal Friday, Show and Share Day, Weekend Bloggy Reading

Saturdays: Whatcha Got Weekend, Saturday Night Special, Show and Tell Saturdays,  Positively Splendid

Sundays: Sundae Scoop, Sunday Showcase, Think Pink Sundays 

Our Almost House

As long as our mortgage goes through (which it should) and everything goes well at settlement (which it should) this will be our home on February 22nd. 

I'm a little excited :)

It's a cute little end-of-the row town home. It's small, but so are we right now! No kiddos in the near future (that we are planning for at least!) so it will work out well for our first few years of marriage. 

Here's the front. I'm by no means a gardener but I can't wait to plant flowers in spring!!

This is the entryway. The front door opens right up into the living/family room.

This is the living room. Perfect amount of space for a nice big sectional couch, TV, computer...and my harp...somewhere?? We'll make it all fit haha.

The living room leads right into the kitchen which is pretty updated. 

The door closest to the picture leads into the laundry room and the one closer to the living room leads to a powder room.

Nothing fancy, but at least its updated! (We saw so many retro bathrooms on our house hunt...)

Here's the master. It looks a lot smaller in this picture than it actually is in person. I may or may not have already claimed the entire closet. Sharing? Who does that? There's also a bathroom off of the master that connects with the hallway as well, but I don't have a picture of that.

Here's my future craft room!!!!!!! The room is really tiny, but it will work out well for crafting. I can't wait to girly glam it up :) Fiance doesn't think it's fair that I get a whole bedroom for crafting and he doesn't get his own space. I'm hoping lots of kisses can keep him content with this situation.

Here's the third bedroom that we will use as a guest bedroom....and I'm hoping my treadmill will be able to fit in too.

And then in the back of the house there is a little patio area with just enough space for a grill and table. I'm very much looking forward to being able to use that space in the summer!!

So there it is! I can't wait until we get it and I can go in and put all my own personal touches on everything. I also can't wait to give a home to all the home items I've received from my shower and will get from the wedding!! I checked my registry last night and saw that someone bought us the hand towels we registered for the bathroom and I got so excited...never would have thought that a hand towel could bring me such joy. Hey, they're nice towels. :)

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