 We just put a new spin on the old front porch welcome sign, we have some Halloween gnomes. We used three pickets, some MDF and our glow forge. We'll show you how we did it right now. What is up a welcome back? Do you like to do a builder make it? So do we. And we have a new video each week. This week falls in full effect. That means Halloween is right around the corner so we got to start decorating. Yep, we need some new front porch decor and we have a great idea for a new front porch leaner. We're gonna use our pickets but not just two pickets. We're gonna use three pickets. We're going three deep. I said three pickets. Three. Even all three of them. And we're gonna add a new kit to these things. We're gonna keep going with that gnome theme that's so popular right now and we're gonna make ourselves some Halloween gnomes. We're gonna dress them up like little tiny trick-or-treaters. Yes, you're gonna love this. It's gonna be super cute. I'll look forward to making it and seeing how it turns out. I mean that's about the only time those bite-sized candies make sense is if you're giving it to a gnome. Step one we're gonna gather all of our supplies. We needed three pickets. They're six foot long, five and a half inches wide. We needed MDF. We're using quarter-inch MDF. We needed some country chic paint. We needed glues. We have some medium star bond and we're also gonna try some gorilla hot glue. They say it's gonna work. And the SVG that we've used for this project and the unfinished kit will be in our store if you want to follow along and make this yourself. Step two we're gonna make all of our cuts. We're gonna cut all three of these pickets in half. We're just gonna cut them all in half. With pocket saw. It's coming out. He doesn't know if he can do it. Thinks they're a little long. I told him we can flip. He'll flip trick. Safe to first. Now I'm gonna take the quarter-inch MDF over to the Glow Forge and we're gonna cut out our SVG. In Glow Forge I'm just gonna create, upload from file, pick our gnome file. It's gonna process for a minute. Bam! Let's shrink this. It's too big. It's hard to see. All right, let's set our material. We're using quarter-inch MDF so I'm gonna use a thick draft board. Let's make this one score. Let's do draft. Cut and cut. Let's line this up a little better. Let's start with this dude's beard and hat. And print. Step three! Now we paint. We're gonna paint all of our little gnome pieces first. All the little hats with all the little cutouts. Everything is getting painted first. Then we'll do the pickets next. All right, let's start. There's a lot of pieces here. Which one do you want to start with? I know you really like the mummy. You want to do the mummy? Yeah, I'll start with the mummy. All right. Give me my mummy. And I'll start with the witch. And for the witch, I'm going to be using this new opulence, this purple from Country Chic. I'm really excited to use that on here. And then I'll be using licorice and simplicity. And then, you know what? I want a little green right there. I think I'm gonna give the mummy the vanilla frosting. Just to give it that little yellowing. He's not a fresh mummy. He's an old mummy. All right, all right, let's do it. Now for my green, I just chose a rustic charm to have that little green. To do my beards, first I put a coat of black on there. And then I come in with a lot of this white, this simplicity. Just goop it up on there. Get the edges. Maybe not over the edge. I'll put a pretty thick coat on there. What's the purpose of that? I'm gonna show you in a second. I'm gonna show you how to make it look like there's bristles in his beard. It's got a bristly beard. Oh, you're gonna show me individual hairs. Individual hairs. He will look like he's really wearing a beard. All right, pretty good. He's pretty covered. All right, looking pretty covered. Looking pretty good. Take off some excess. There you go. Look at that. Halfway there. Halfway, Kim. Now I'm gonna get all of the paint off of my brush. Try to get it all off. I'll even come over here. Run around a bit. Get it off. Get all the paint off. It's kind of dry. I'm gonna hold the brush like this. Trying to make those bristles tight. I'm gonna drag it down. Trying to scrape some of that paint back off now. He's got a mustache. So, I'll move this way, move this way, move that way. Get some of this paint off. I'll come back for a stash. Little mustache. There's my realistic beard. Look at that. Look at that real stickiness. Like a stash. Make sure the paint doesn't ooze. I'm gonna hit it with the heat gun. And he's a bearded. It's like a beard. Now it's time to paint the pickets. Paint the pickets. We're gonna do two in black, licorice, two in white, simplicity, and one in orange, which is our persimmon. I'll be whitewashing mine, just like Huck Finn. Take Kim into doing it for me here in a minute. Right? Yeah. Step four. Now we're gonna assemble it. We're gonna bring it all together with some of this gorilla hot glue. We're gonna see if this stuff is as incredibly strong as it claims to be. Let's see if it holds up over the adjusting temperatures over the next month. Oh yeah, it's a good one. We're gonna start by putting all of our pickets together. We're just gonna kind of line them up, space them out. And we're doing this because the hats, there's spacing that kind of goes from middle section up. So we're gonna go ahead and put the pickets together and that way we'll ensure we've got the correct spacing. So we're placing our orange board directly center across the black and white boards and there's a four and a half inch gap between each picket. It says 45 seconds and that's it. It's down. So we'll see. Alright, we'll be working with it here. We'll see if it pops off. I feel like I'm playing a giant piano. Should we be safe and hit it with a brad? We chickened out. We were just gonna leave it with the gorilla glue, but I'm scared. So we're gonna hit it with a one and a quarter inch brad. The nail, not the guy. Makes me feel a little better. We'll flip it around so you can start with them upside down like this. I didn't paint the backs of mine. Oh, you didn't? Oh, somebody didn't paint the backs. Somebody who gives somebody else a lot of guff for not painting the backs. I do. I do. I give them a hard time for not painting the backs. All right. You were a fast painter. I am. I am so fast. Okay. All right. Ready to start putting the gnomes together. Put them on the boards. Let's lay them out where they go. Yes. Let's let's dry fit everything. Ready to start gluing. I'm ready. Should I get their hats on first? You might have to put it. Yes. Tack in their hats. Yes. Tack in the hat. Tack in the hat. I like a gnome with a tack in the hat. Oh, good. Tack in the hat. I like a gnome with a tack in the hat. I'm gonna use a three quarter inch brad. Don't go crazy because that's what it gets. I'm hot glue crazy. Other way. That's enough. That's enough. That's too much. It's got a giant puddle of glue. Gotta get a little brad out. We don't eat brad. That's the whole point of doing this is we want to test this glue. I mean, it's not the whole place. All right. It's right on the edge. It's very tippy-tuppy. All right. You can. You can. All right. Put the brad in there. Put the brad in there. Pull in the trick-or-treaters. Yeah. It is so cute. Yeah. I like it. I think I'm gonna break this little spider off before it actually gets out to the porch. Yeah. I told you that little guy was teetering. Yeah, but I just thought I'd gamble and roll the dice. Just like we're rolling the dice with this gorilla glue, this gorilla hot glue. Yeah. Let's see what happens. We'll let you know. If we have no news, it's good news. If it doesn't stay, we're gonna let you know. We're probably gonna hit this with some clear coat just over the MDF pieces because we're gonna put it towards the outside of our rail, right? Yes. So we have a covered porch and I didn't want to leave it up under there because I love it so much. So I'm gonna sit it. There's a handrail there. I'm going to zip tie it to the handrail. So it's going to be out in the weather a little bit. It should be fine. We've had a lot of our signs out in the weather just testing to see how they do. This MDF holds up pretty well. So I think it'll do okay at least for the season. I'm gonna give it a light coat. Nothing heavy. Quick little light coat. Yeah. I think this is great and you guys can make this too. So we're gonna offer this kit in our store. It's gonna be like a mega kit because there's a lot of pieces to it. All you would have to do is buy these pickets and then again, your home improvement store will cut them in half for you. And then there you go. There you go. Oh, look at that. All right. Well, we're about out of time. So if you're not joining us for the patron after show, last week's was a good one. We will see you next week where we'll do it, build it and make it again. No, no, I mean to do it. Now we're outside. Some other day. All right. Outside it is. So, so Kim was like, I'm gonna carry the picket thing down the stairs. So it'll be safe. You guys want to see something? Look, look, she already killed. She already killed that little spider that I put there. The spider didn't even make it out of the craft room. I have to keep moving. It's a heavy. Oh my gosh, you tricked me. I didn't know you were going to do that. Yes.