Specialty Gardening: FINALLY!!! No more grass!!! WALKWAY suggestions??, 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
Pat - Something that I am planning to do is use a wood-burning tool and a piece of deco wood from the local craft store and I will print out a pattern to fit the area on the piece of wood and use graphite paper to trace the pattern on the wood. I am going to make a "Welcome to Our Garden" sign and "Welcome to Our Home" sign for the front and back of my arbor. I am planning to either paint the wood or stain and spray with some kind of anti-yellowing glossy finish. And then hang it by small chains to the top of my arbor entrance.

I got the wood-burning kit, using a 50% off coupon at Michael's Craft Store locally, several months ago. So I think I paid $15 for it. :-) The wood was only a $1.50 each and the graphite paper was a $1.00 each. So not too bad to make a nice deco sign. I was also thinking of making more signs to place throughout my garden beds and mount them on wooden stakes cut at a 45 degree angle so you can easily read them. I was thinking of adding some small rub-on stickers with butterflies and hummingbirds to decorate the signs. This all sounds well and good. I haven't made one yet, so don't know how they will turn out. Since I have different garden rooms, I wanted to have a sign to state which room you are in.

Here's a photo of the wood-burning kit, wood, and graphite paper.