“A DIY Wedding with a Forest Theme” offers Great Guest Name Tags for the Handy!
Posted by abncparties on June 17, 2009
I just picked up this post by Cristina in which the bride
commented:
DIY Wooden Name Cards
“I made these by renting a mitre saw from a tool rental facility to cut a eucalyptus branch one of the gardeners at Stern Grove gave to me from the mulch pile. I had my husband carry it up the stairs (it weighed nearly 100 pounds), fired it up, and had 90 cross-section disks in about 20 minutes. The dust gets everywhere despite the dust bag, so I put down a tarp to do this (we don’t have outdoor space) and wore a respirator mask. The disks that were cut a little too roughly I sanded down with my Dremel tool. I then printed the text for both sides onto clear inkjet labels and cut them out with a circle cutter. I stuck the labels in place and smoothed them down. Our florist brought a tray with moss in it for me to display them,” explains Lauren.
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Heidi said
I LOVE this idea! But man alive. She had to use power tools to do it!
abncparties said
Nobody said it was easy, just unique….
DIY said
Have a look at this neat, clever, handy, well thought-out information.
abncparties said
Finally got the point!