 We just made these two holiday centerpieces fall and winter and we did it with this little tiny fiskars saw a Hot glue gun and our cricket and we'll show you how we did it right now What is up a welcome back Do you like to do a builder to make it so do we and we have a new video each week this week? We're taking it to the tabletop Yes, we're getting ready for the holidays last year. We had like a little intimate intimate Thanksgiving it was just the kids, but this year we're back to the whole big crew extended family That means multiple tables all throughout the downstairs of the house Yes, we have a very large family and I'm the one that hosts Thanksgiving And so there's a giant table of like eight people in the kitchen We have one in the family room and one on the pool. Yeah now that we have our pool table converted into a table There's gonna be one in there too. So yeah, so now we need an army. We need it There was people eating on the porch the year before last. Yes, we ran out of seats So for this week's video, we're starting to this is our first kind of prep for the holidays And we're gonna make a centerpiece for our table We're gonna make a Thanksgiving version and we're gonna make a Christmas version And we're gonna show you two ways to make them Garrett thinks he's making the easy version I am making the easy version and I'm and I'm making the version that I think is harder Would be your typical way you may make a box. So we will see we'll see Step one we're gonna gather all of our supplies. I just needed three packs of stir sticks. Oh and some stain I'm using this unicorn spit And for a tool. He's gonna use this cute little Fiskars Saw blade that I found like a little tiny trim saw look at this little thing before I cut myself And that's so cute. I'm told him this will be a perfect I actually went and got this because I had seen in the store I went and got this for this project because I think it'd be perfect. I didn't know it had a sheath. Oh careful All right back to what we're doing. Please don't hurt me or you For my project, I'm gonna do it. I don't know what I think is the Typical way you would build a crate. We're gonna make tiny little crates I didn't look for them in the store and I didn't see them because otherwise we could have just stained and painted them But we're gonna make our own crates because they need to be tabletop size and I'll tell you This is probably one of the smallest projects. We've never done We never do a small project and these are gonna be eight by eight So they're gonna be tiny for us and I'm using what I found in the trim section. It's called lattice So what do you say? This is quarter of an inch by an inch and a half. Yeah, cuz these are an inch and a half And they're about the same and Then these are pre-primed. So I'm planning to paint mine. So that's perfect I love that they were pre-primed and then we're gonna use these five eighths five eighths inch Square dowels and these are gonna be the corners And this is what the lattice is gonna attach to you to make our little box You're gonna cut through all of that with this jam right here. I mean, you're right. I think so I definitely know I can cut through the lattice with that I'm a maybe questioning a little bit as to whether or not I can cut through elbow grease But if you want to make it at home, and you don't have your own pocket saw I think this will be a great alternative. So that's that trying and you can wear this one on your belt You don't have to put it in your pocket. Don't worry pocket. We know you're still here Show another alternative and then I'm gonna paint mine with some country sheet paints So I'm gonna be using vanilla frosting and honestly, I haven't decided on which color orange. I'm gonna use It's either gonna be the sparklers or with a twist Two different oranges. These are more like that fall orange And then of course they have their new leather bound brown, which is perfect and then I might add the screen in We're going with a lot of colors. I don't know he does a lot of this is just a Tiny crate Kim. Yeah, but it's gonna be colorful. It's really gonna decorate my table and this one's called secret garden It's great green and then I may even throw in this road trip Which is a sandy color who knows you might even find a few more paints along the way And then you're gonna use to assemble your hot glue in my whole thing He's trying to go no tools. No, no real tools No big tools. No industrial tools. Yeah, no industrial tools. Yeah, so still need you a little fisk or saw Yeah, I need my sword and I think I think I'm gonna be using Brad Oh, you think so? I think I'm gonna nail the things. Oh, you think I should hop with them, too I don't know. We'll do them two different ways. We'll see see how we're feeling when we get there Step two we're gonna make all of our cuts. I'm just gonna cut my stir sticks down to eight inches And they already have a ruler on them, so I don't even have to measure anything. Yeah, these came from the paint department They look like great little hobby sticks. I think you could use them for all kinds of things They're like a buck fifty. You can stain them, you can paint them And then like you said they already got a ruler on them up to what do we say? 14 inches 14 inches, but it goes up to like 16 or something. That's why I got them. I think it's like 16 inches to the curve That's right. These are gonna be boxes So they're gonna be 16 inch wide slats and then I mean eight eight inch wide slats and then Eight inches tall. We'll cut our dowels at eight inches as well. No, I'm not. I'm just a gluing. What are you gonna have to cut the dowel down? Really? I'm gonna make all of my cuts with my new sword this fiskars thing and I'm gonna use a straight edge this speed square. I'm gonna protect my table with a picket and some clamps Clamps, I got the clamps You embarrassed me. No, you don't get embarrassed You can't go through. Yeah, I am. No, you're not. I sure am. Yeah, I'm cutting right on through. Why not? He hasn't even taken them out of the plastic wrapping. I'm sure not. I'm just leaving them right in there. I think that's a good idea. Lining it up with the eight We're gonna trim down this dowel to make six inch tall little pieces for the corners and then for the bottom We're gonna make two little six and a half inch pieces for cross braces. Hold the bottom on Right. We want this to be three pickets tall because that's the sayings I have written out right now Which would make it about six inches tall. You got pickets on the brain I thought it was gonna be eight inches, but I Back to what we're doing back to it. Focus focus Almost lost the tooth Step three. Now we're gonna bring it all together with hot glue only No No, I still think I'm gonna well, we'll see we'll see I mean if you wanted to try to carry apples in it Then I think maybe we need some brad nails. Well, it's just gonna hold some foliage I think we'll be okay with old sticky Jones Well, okay But what if I put it in the attic and then it's gonna get hot It's gonna get a hot over the summer and mess with the glue. I think you need a little brad All right, we can give yours a little sticking Sticking I guess I'm just gonna try hot glue. It's like a staple Tiny little brad Look now you got us waiting on you to unwrap yours because you refuse to do it. Each one is like a tiny little present It's like what's in this one a Ruler I got three rulers and I'll stop at eight inches Mine I'm gonna go ahead and paint my slats first. I'm gonna paint my top slats slats slats Orange and then I'm gonna use antique white and then I'm going to use Leatherbound on your slats slats Get it out Kim Step four now. I'm standing Kim's painting. She's all out of order Well, I think it'll be difficult to paint after so I'll find out. Yeah, we will stay we will see I'm gonna use this unicorn spit white and I don't know Red it's like red glitter But first I'm gonna get it wet. So I got a little cup of water Splish-splash Get it all wet for Kim. We're gonna assemble it again We're gonna use some hot glue and then throw a little three-quarter inch bread in there The nail not the guy Alright, my assembly is going to be just like his other than I'm adding the little Brails. Yeah, the little brad nail Let's see. I'm with you. Does it look like a flag? I don't want it to look like a flag I think once you get the decorations on it, it'll just look like a flag Yes, go ahead and tell them what the next step is and then I'll tell them what we're gonna do Step five and now we're gonna add the design We're really just throwing a little word or a little saying on each one of these little planks each one of these little slats Yeah, these are cute like they are but they're gonna be even cuter with some holiday sayings on each one And we forgot to even mention our star of the show this week is gonna be our cricket We're gonna use it to stencil while I'm going to stencil. Are you guys stencil or vinyl? I don't know. I think I'm gonna stencil He loves that We're gonna stencil these cute little holiday sayings on each one We're just gonna hop in a design space Type out all of our sayings all like how many like 24 sayings 24 words Cricket maker 3 to cut these Garrett used His fonts from his laptop that I do not have on my iPad So the great thing about cricket design spaces I can just open the project and make it and I don't have to have these fonts installed on my iPad as long as I don't edit the file It'll cut the project as is and the great thing about this cricket maker 3 is we get to use this Smart vinyl so I don't have to add a mat. I just load it right in here Get it under its little guides and then I'll just go right into to design space click make it I'm gonna use without a mat and then Continue so I'll select smart vinyl permanent and with the cricket maker 3 I'm gonna hit the flashing triangle button. I decided that I'm just gonna go with vinyl. I'm not gonna paint So I'm gonna reverse weed mine. I'm gonna put my transfer tape on Pull it off and then just take the pieces that I'm not gonna use Well seems hard I don't think so. Okay. I think it's gonna be easier than that weeding transfer tape putting it down Mod podge paint That's a lot. Okay. Okay, and For mine we put these nice boxes around each of the words So I can go ahead and take off the first layer and just leave the boxes and then leave the little boxes You'll see what I'm talking about Mistletoe up Oh, I messed up jingle bells I got the G stuck to my thumb now. All right, I ruined three of them now You know what? I'm just gonna write write it on with my hand. I'm just writing them on. I don't think you Yeah, I can't look I ruined three Three vinyl things now I'm gonna try again. One more try. I'm gonna try a little different technique this time Call all of this stuff. I don't want off now Then use a piece to transfer. I think that's a good idea And I have all of my stencils on my next step is to add a coat of Mod Podge Mod Podge over each of these stencils Let it dry so it seals the stencil and I don't have any bleeding when I add paint Or if you don't have Mod Podge, you can use the same coat of paint so I could put a coat of orange a coat of antique white and a coat of green But that takes too long. So we're gonna use Mod Podge I'm not gonna let my paint dry before I take the stencil off. I'm gonna go ahead and peel the stencil up My goodness. Look at that already looking so cute now Do as I say not as I do We probably should have sprayed this because of the chalk paint and I'm using permanent vinyl because it didn't have a removable vinyl You probably I probably should have sprayed this with some Polycrylic first and then stenciled and that way it wouldn't have pulled up some of the paint So as I pull the stencil off, it's pulling up some of my base paint here from my pickets That's okay because what I think I'm going to do is give it a little sand and then a little bit of antiquing wax To age it a little bit. So it should be all right. I Was gonna put this big ball in mine and then kind of stuff stuff around it until it looks Christmassy, I didn't have two greenery balls. So he's confident. He can use that foam ball. Yeah, it'll work What do you think how to turn out not too shabby, right? I love them. I think they look great I'm not sure which one I like better. Although. I do think mine was easier Once I figured out the correct way to weed it. Well, I think I Would love to see if you guys do this project what yours looks like Garrett could have added some green in there for Christmas That's what the greenery was for. Oh, I see I see I see my box sheer Christmas Pop a green. Well, I do think it's going to be fine with just glue. He just used glue for his I did add some nails and glue for mine. So we can toss yours around Yeah, you can actually drop yours off of the back of the truck. We could But I loved them. They're so cute. This is exactly so I saw this in idea on Pinterest Actually went to the store that that was going to carry these but they were no they weren't there And they was said 404 not found so they don't carry this item anymore. So I was able to make it myself I actually I think these turned out better. I do. I think that one looks way cooler than the one you saw on Pinterest Yeah, and this one didn't exist. This one was yeah Straight out of your head All right, we are about out of time so if you're not gonna join us for the patron after show We will see you next week where we'll do it build it and make it again. I've already balanced this one several times No challenge no challenge. Let's try yours. Well, all right My flowers aren't all jabbed in to the green thing Then we'll just assume it balances in a similar fashion