 We just made this privacy wall or backdrop for a craft fair or a farmer's market someplace to hang your signs. We used some pickets and some 2x3's 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 it's the final countdown. Yes I think I finally got Garrett there. He's he's clicked into gear. I mean pretty much pretty much clicked into gear. Five weeks, 18 projects, 75 items and a booth set up to boot. It's gonna be tight. It's gonna be tight. It is the whole month of getting ready for the market. Yes April is market month. Market month. That's what it's been. That's it. I have one month. I've been trying since February to really get this show started and Garrett had to redo the garage but now we're here. Garage is ready. We've got a workspace and we're ready to get going. I had to feel like spring. It was hard getting ready for a spring-summer farmer's market when it was cold out. I just didn't feel it. I didn't feel it. So this week we're starting with three panels that we're gonna use as part of our farmer's market background or our tent display. What is it called? Booth display? Yes part of our display set up for our booth. We are gonna make these panels is what I'm envisioning. I haven't made them yet but I know what I'm looking for. I want a place to display our door rounds. Last year they pretty much just hung from the side of the tent which was fine. I mean you can really see them coming but I think we could make the aesthetic a little bit better. Kind of like wooden wind chimes too. They were like a little wooden wind. They kind of did sway in the wind and the breeze there. But this this year I want to create some display panels. So these kind of look a little more professional. Yes. It doesn't look so hanging from a tent we got at Dix. Step one we're gonna gather all of our supplies. We really just needed like four of those six foot dog ear fence pickets. Two two by threes. We want two by threes cost and weight. Some three inch screws and some one and five eighth inch screws and some glue. Stand and paint. Yes. So let me give you a little low down on these fence pickets. You wouldn't believe how long we sat there. Ninety minutes. Debated. Probably not that long but we came in to lumber saw these pickets decided I'm not sure these are the ones we want. We went all the way out to the garden center. We debated and looked at all the pickets. We came back into the lumber pickets. We didn't like those still. We went over to another section within lumber and saw some other pickets. It was a whole process. So let me tell you what we chosen. Scanning matching skews. We did. Scuse. Looking at other stores. That might have been me but some of them didn't seem thicker than the others. So it was a thing. But anyway let me tell you what the deal is. Normally we get the premium dog ear fence pickets when we're making our front porch welcome signs because they're nice and smooth. I don't really do any sanding. They are pressure treated. I can just stain and paint them. These are not those. So those are 350 each right now. They were like 270 but they've really gone up in price. So but still affordable to do a front porch welcome sign. But when you're doing what we're doing for these display panels they don't need to be that high end. They don't need to be super smooth. I don't want to take away from the sign themselves. I don't want the display to be so beautiful. It's not. They don't notice the sign. So we're going to use these just standard dog ear fence pickets. These right now are $1.98 so they were like $2 each. But I am going to stain and paint these. So I think I might hit them with the sander just to knock some of this roughness off because I think they're gonna be difficult to paint and stain. It's just gonna catch the rag when I try and stain it. Oh that's true. So anyway because we're gonna cut these up and they're just gonna be displays. I think that these little the rough version here will work. So that's the difference between two dollars and 350 and which ones we use for which. Well do you want to run a sander down them before we start? Yeah probably we should do that. What do you want to do after we chop them all up? I think it'll be easier to do them as a whole board. I agree. Step two we're gonna make all of our cuts. We're really just gonna cut these planks down to 24 inches and these two by threes we're just cutting down to six foot and then we should have about two feet left over. Maybe we have to use it as the frame or a foot. Not sure yet. But what I am sure about is that we're going to be using the pocket saw to make all of our cuts. Every bit of sawdust in the bag just came pouring out the front. That way it makes it look like we've been working. Now we're gonna stain. We're using some briar smoke. We're gonna lay down a base stain. Then we're gonna come back in and paint. Yeah we're gonna give it that distressed painting technique. Yeah right now we're just giving that that underlaying color something that's not raw wood. Yes and I'm trying to go with this briar smoke because I think the rounds are gonna be more of a darker color stain like what is it dark walnut and this will be a lighter color stain to give it some contrast. I'm gonna paint. You know like that is not a paint brush. Oh I know we're gonna scrape the paint across. Just give it like a kiss of the paint with a scraper. Yeah we tried this technique a couple of projects ago and I really like the way it looked and I think it's perfect for this back drop behind us because it's really a rustic look. It's a paint saver. So you're really just gonna pour a little bit on your board and then run your scraper tool down it. Here's your technique. Just making like a ladder on both sides. Some rungs will be missing and we're gonna pin it all together with some one and five eighths inch screws. I think we're gonna put some pilot holes in there though to make sure we don't split the boards and then we're just doing two screws per side per board. That's a lot of holes a lot of screws. We're gonna alternate the slats one's gonna be on the front and then one's gonna be on the back and then front back front back. Front back front back and because we want to make it look distressed sometimes one board will be missing like it belonged there it just was taken down and used somewhere else and some other project. Except we decided on no missing boards. New news. Yes so I want to have greenery peeking out so it looked like there's little planters halfway down so we were gonna take a board out so I could have greenery there but since I want it to be displayed on both sides what I think I'm going to do is one on the back. Are you with me? Front one on the back one on the front and then the one that's in the back I'm just going to staple some greenery too. I'm not I'm not using real flowers because I can't keep them alive so I'm gonna put some plastic plastic it's just greenery I'm not doing flowers fake greenery fake stuff we're using the fake stuff. Yes so it will just alternate. All right I get it now. Really just adding some flowers some greenery something to give it a little pizzazz something to brighten up the dark empty spaces on either side. Well they're not dark and they don't really need anything but I thought this would be a nice it just gives it some interest and it'll be okay if we cover it up with a door round for display but if it's not covered up then it's got some interest and you know flair. A little something. I did do a little research on some greenery. I went to Hobby Lobby yesterday to get what I knew I wanted. Well I went first. Yeah I wasn't gonna go into all that. Yes I sent Garrett first during the day while I was working and he brings back a bag full of greenery. It was seven variations of Ivy because he felt like that was the most affordable thing that he could find and and it was and maybe it would have worked but it wasn't exactly what I wanted so I was I went marching back up there after dinner and I was like nope that's not what I want we're gonna pick that I got I already know what I want but they were eight dollars each and I was gonna need at least four or five per rung and I wanted to do three per board and I was looking at like a hundred and fifty dollars to add the screenery so that was not gonna fly so I returned everything that Garrett purchased and then I didn't purchase anything and then I said we're going to the dollar store so I had one of the youngest with me and I said we're going to the dollar store we're gonna go see what they have so they had these hydrangeas not the most the best quality silk flowers out there but I think that we can add a few of them here and they'll give us the interest and you know we lose flowers over time we can easily well flowers happen we're just gonna staple them in like in a couple of the gaps all right what's it look like yeah yeah yeah you can make a defeat we're gonna give us some feet so that we can move a bolt right we got to keep this thing portable all right it's got to be able to fit in and out of a car so we're just going to use we had another picket that we finished staying the same way and so we've cut that into thirds just like we did the rest of them there's still 24 inches they're gonna be the feet we're gonna take this one and chop it up so it's five and a half inches wide we're gonna get four of these out of this one I hope we'll see and then we're gonna use part of the two by three that's the back brace we're gonna cut this to use it as a 45 degree brace so again it's all part of what we've already stained and this death for the rest of the project just using our leftovers making the most oh look who's making a second appearance tonight it's like a cameo the night that's gonna cost us brace it's seven from this piece here pin it together with Brad okay so we're just marking the center of the board and then one picket plus the two by three is about a two two and a 16 two and an eight two and an eight so we're gonna mark the center and then mark an inch on each side a half inch on each side right maybe one inch on each side one and a 16th yeah so you only want to leave and leave enough space to put the panel right down in there between the feet it'll hold them and they'll stand up line this up back here and I'll pin it yes it's temporary held and now he's gonna screw it in the picket I mean are you gonna screw the picket down so that it doesn't oh I guess it's screwed to this piece here okay so we just screwed the bottom to the brace so we take them outside and see if it works let's do it I'll take this big picket some two by threes ourselves a privacy wall you couldn't even see me or a backdrop for the farmers market right isn't this great this is gonna be the perfect display and we're using these little shower hooks so that we can move them around we could adjust them they don't have to be in one place I can just take them off and hang them anywhere and then when we're all out of signs the flowers make it look like it's not so blank supposed to be that way look into it good big shout out to the patrons we love you guys think we're bad out of time so if you're not joining us for the patron after show we will see you next week where we'll do it build it make it again these things are way too heavy to balance yeah we'll balance some hello peeps with the wind