If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.

We've had a one day reprieve from the scorching heat,

but now the blazing sun is once again turning up the temp.

Our kitchen is the last place I want to be in the middle of a heat wave.

I know most of us have a patio or deck where we enjoy our meals

in the summer months when the weather cooperates.

Our daughter Julie and her family are lucky enough to have a large screen porch

where they eat most of their meals.  In Minnesota, it's almost a necessity when

our state pests, the mosquitoes, are out in full force. 

 I painted this sign to hang in their screen porch.

I've had the page below bookmarked for a while, so when the hot

weather finally hits us northerners I find it's the perfect time to

sit in the cool basement and paint fun projects on my to do list.

As you can see, I pretty much followed the photo, but changed

out the name to personalize the sign for their screen porch.

It's cut from 1/4 inch plywood to keep it lightweight and base coated in off-white paint.

I printed out the words using various fonts, traced the letters onto the sign,

and painted them with a flat artist brush and acrylic paints.

I added metallic silver highlights to the black lettering and

red shadowing to the dark gray letters.

I glued the brass eyelets (which were left over from windows we replaced) over

holes I drilled in the sign.  The black hooks are pot hooks from IKEA, and the chain

was removed from the basket I attached to my old bike.

I've got the chain doubled over this trellis, but the sign will

hang from the black curtain rings I found in my hardware stash.

Total cost = Not a dime!

I used what I had on hand.

 I guess it pays to hang onto all that junk!

Here's to getting out of the kitchen!

Vickie

*Joining the parties at:
Funky Junk Interiors Saturday Nite Special
Hot Fun in the Summertime