Deer Silhouettes

My First Pallet Signs!

I've been working for the last several days setting up an area in my mud room for painting and drying sign boards.  I have this wonderful bakery cooling rack that I purchased a few years ago at a yard sale that was missing all the baking sheets that would serve as shelves.  My sister suggested I cut some boards to size (from some laminated shelves I was storing in the tack room out in the barn), and use the rack to dry the sign bases.  She's the smart one in the family, LOL!!!  It never dawned on me to use this rack for that purpose!

Prior to this, I was only able to paint 2 or 3 boards at a time, and I had them set all around the house to dry.  Of course my cats thought this was the perfect place to sit, LOL!  Now, with this rack, I can paint 12 boards and have a safe place for them to dry, YAY!

Anyway, the other day, I pulled apart a pallet I had in the barn and cut the boards to varying lengths to make a few signs.  The wood  from this pallet was REALLY rough.  I tried sanding down the worst of the roughness, but, it wasn't much help.  I decided to go very rustic with whatever designs I decided to put on the boards.  Here's my first set of signs from the boards.

These 2 signs measure 11 x 18 and the larger signs (shown in first pic) 15 x 23.5 

I'm thinking about adding some rusty barb wire or some old fencing wire (no barbs).  Possible outlines on some of the silhouettes?  Anyway, I'll post more pics when they are complete.  I just wanted to keep y'all in the loop.  

Here's one more pic to give you an idea of the size differences:

If you are interested in purchasing any of the signs I post to this blog, or have a custom request, please email me at idahoelly@gmail.com

I have also opened a GoFundMe account to help with start up costs as well as to help with the overhead of the rescue operation.  If you are interested in donating, please go to:

GoFundMe - Tin Shed Designs