Birthday Board

Such a dangerous site, Pinterest. It got me again, when I fell in love with the idea of having one of these in the house. Why have to transfer birthdays into each year's new calendar, when instead you can make something decorative for the house that does the same job?

First job for me was to paint up some wooden disks which we bought from Hobbycraft, with names and birthdays of friends and family.

Next, I worked out the font style and size for the "Birthdays" to go on the board itself, printed it out and used tracing paper to transfer it across to a piece of MDF Arjan had cut out.

And then he went to work on it, as we'd decided we wanted the top of the word to be cut out as well as painted. Lots of jigsawing, filing and sanding later, and the letters have begun to take shape.

Next steps are to prime, decide what colour to paint it, paint it, varnish the whole lot, and put it together with some jewellery fittings that we've also bought from Hobbycraft.