 We just made this fall porch post directional sign, but it's interchangeable so it really could be any season. It could be Halloween or we could go ahead and just make it Christmas and we'll show you how we made it right now. What is up? Welcome back. Do you like to do a build or make it? We do too. And we have a new video each week. This week we're making a seasonal post directional sign. I know that sounds crazy, but we're taking one of these fence posts and we're going to put some directional signs on it and we're going to make them interchangeable for the season. So we're going to start with a fall one and we're going to add a Halloween and we're going to add a Christmas version and I'm really excited about this project. I've been looking forward to it. We haven't yet tested whether or not it works a hundred percent. Projects mainly theory. Surprise. We'll see. We'll find out together, but I think it'll work and I'm really excited about it. Step one. We're going to gather all of our supplies. We needed, well we're making it interchangeable, so we needed seven fence pickets. This four by four post fence post thing, it's only 48 inches tall. We needed some kind of base. So we had a scrap two by 12 and we picked up a little base trim for the post, make it look all nice. This beefy magnet, this beefy magnets, you'll see, we hope. And some washers, oh and some paints and some odds and ends and stuff. You know how it is. We'll continue our use of our country chic paints. So these are the big ones. We started a bunch of little ones to test out the colors, but of course I went ahead and picked up a large white in crinoline and a large black in licorice. So we'll be using those as well. Step two. We're going to make all of our cuts. We're really just cutting down the pickets and they're 48 inches so we're just going to cut them in half. We have a couple of 24 inch planks and I think I'm going to go ahead and cut these with my pocket saw. You guys were missing my pocket saw weren't you? I was missing my pocket saw. And Brad, we'll see. Maybe we'll see Brad later. You've seen Brad. I don't know. It's been a while since we've seen Brad. Safety first. And to save on time we'll be cutting two at a time. We use the other side of the pickets for the Halloween signs and then for the Christmas signs we cut one at eight, one at 12, one at 16, 20, and then one at 24. While we're at it I cut some little feet. I just use a scrap piece of picket, cut them in squares. For one of the Halloween planks I drew on it with a pencil and then cut it out with a jigsaw to make it look like the plank had been broken off. I use the Kreg AccuCut and a circular saw to trim off a piece of spare 2 by 12 we had. And I just made it square so it's 11 and one eighth by 11 and one eighth. But there's another alternative so these cuts are really simple. All we have to do is cut those pickets in half and your local home improvement store that will do that for you. And for the base if you don't have the 2 by 12 we were thinking you could just as easily use one of these wood rounds that you get from Home Depot, Lowe's, any of your home improvement stores. This one's 18 inches. I think it'll work but I know you can get them as large as 24 inches. Garrett made some giant side at 1.4 with a 24 inch one. So I know that that'll have a wide base. Yeah I think that base would be a little too big. We did a video last year, I'll put it up over here, right over Kim's head, where we made a porch post also and we just took a 1 by 12, made two pieces and glued it together. And you couldn't even tell. Look the same. So there's a couple of alternatives I'm just trying to make it super easy so that anyone can make this. So a base like this will help or you can get the home improvement store to cut you some 1 by 12s. The 2 by 12 was pretty expensive but we just happened to have it. Just happened to have it from a project that didn't pan out. Sometimes that happens. Step 3. We're going to drill some holes. I don't know why that's drill. That's drill. We're going to use a 1 and 3 eighths inch Forstner bit and we're just going to kiss the wood. We're just going to make a little indent. So I took this paint marker, paint marker and I drew a little line around the Forstner bit so that I'll know exactly how deep to go ish ish. We're just making space to insert or inset the magnets for each of the boards that we're going to put across at each of the directional boards. Safety first. Safety first. Safety first y'all. Made a mess. Yes. There's a ton of wood shavings everywhere. We'll vacuum this up in a second. But holes. That's it. We just made a giant candle holder. Put some tea lights in there. What do you guys think? Step 4. We're going to glue down some magnets, glue down some magnets in the little holes we just drilled out. You want to try to separate the magnets or put glue in the holes. You want to separate them? I did put the spacers back. And that makes it easier. What? You didn't record yourself using glue. I'd like to see you me using glue. Tell you what, we just squeezed it. What? You're giving up the secrets. Oh, this is the one with no spacer. Oh man, there's no leverage. There you go. That helps. I used this to help to get it back in there. I feel like you're just squeezing all the glue out. I said to clamp it for two hours. So I was just trying to make sure it was down tight. Two hours? No. Okay. Now that it's dry. Yes. Sorry, babe. Good thing you had your hat on. Protected me. Now we're going to paint. We're going to use this great country chic paint. It goes on with one coat. And that's why it's great. That and again, a lot of colors. A lot of these great farmhouse colors, which is perfect for this fall directional sign that we're going to use. We're going to make here. So I'm going to start by painting these pickets each in fall colors. So let me tell you what we're using. Hollow. Hollow hill. With a twist. Dark roast. Cheesecake. And fresh mustard. Fresh mustard and cheesecake. And then we're going to stencil our design on top once these dry. So let's start with painting the pickets. We'll flip the colors around. We just have some words and some graphics to put on here. So Garrett created this stencil for us. It says bonfire, hay rides, corn maze, apple cider and pumpkin patch. And I'm going to go ahead because this Ormask 813 has this grid on the back. I can see through and I'm going to go ahead and slice this up and we'll cut it so that one fits on each board and we'll add the stencils to each of these boards. The one I was just flashing actually has a little mistake on it. Somebody didn't peel it correctly. So I had to create another one. All right. Now let me decide. Now let me decide. I want green. I want them pretty much in reverse order, I think. Do we like that or do these go this way? No. No. Yeah. That looks good. Okay. And oh, I have them backwards now. This is going to go this way. This is going to go this way and that way. And. That way. All right. Bonfire goes on. What color? Orange maybe? It's going to get, I kind of thought it through. That's going to get a green, green paint. Green paint. Will that work? Let's see. I guess we can decide. Which one is getting orange paint? Hay rides. Orange letters. Cream. Corn maze. We'll get the orange letters. Apple cider. Oh, you want no, I guess pumpkin patch. We want pumpkin patch up here on the green one, don't we? Bonfire will go in the brown. That's good. Yeah. That's good. Does it really matter which way they're pointing? Do I really need the arrows? So our stencil has the arrows, but we've made the pickets have like a built in arrow. We can cut the arrow off and then put it inside this picket area. Yes. I say let's do that. All right. Because now I have three pointing this way and two pointing that way and I grab them. Well, did you get the little of scissors that you could find? I did. He's got the tiny little scissors. I knew it was going to be a delicate job. I guess we're just going to eyeball it, right? It doesn't have to be perfect. Should I put the pumpkin on the inside now? Oh, yeah. Well, I guess that's a good thing about these stencils is you can cut them up like this. We had pumpkin on the right, but now we're going to put pumpkin on the left. So here we already have the transfer tape on our stencil and now I'm going to peel off this backing with the grid marks on it. The white paper backing. Yep. Put it face down and give it a tight pull back. Keep it tight against the transfer, the A31. The stencil material. Yeah, just do a tight roll against the stencil material. Oh, look at that. It's like the perfect place for that. The center of his A is in a knot, a knot in the wood. It's not in a good place. It's not. It is not. So do you think this should be down here like this? I'll try to center it in the picket. All right. So the stencil is down. Yep. That's to use something to make sure it's down real tight to this wood. We didn't do much sanding to this thing. None. And now you're going to peel your transfer tape up. That's the clear tape on top if you can get to it. And again, nice tight pull, keeping it like all the way back, like 180 degrees. It starts to lift up, go in reverse, press it back down and continue on. Try to pull the transfer tape in a different direction to see if it'll stay. That's to keep your fingers as close to the pull spot as much as you can because if you get way back here, you start pulling up on the stencil. And you don't want to do that. Now, I have a couple of options here before I actually paint my stencil. Oh, are you going to try to apply all the stencils? Can I start painting? Yeah. You can either, because this is a painted surface and not a stained surface, you can either put a coat of the base paint right over top of the stencil to help seal it so it doesn't bleed or you can add a coat of Mod Podge. So, since I have this wet brush here, I think I'm just going to add a coat of the base paint. Base paint. Base paint. Base paint. So, another good technique while you're painting is to dab. Don't swipe the paint because that kind of pushes it under the stencil. The best way to do it is just to dab straight up and down with, we use these sponge brushes often and they really help you dab on the paint when you're using a stencil. You see I'm using this heat gun to get these to dry a little bit faster, but you have to be very careful with these stencils. They do not like the heat, so I make sure I keep it moving the whole time. So, when you peel off your stencils, the tip we have here is peel against the green, not with the green because if you can, with the green will kind of pull the green up so you want to go across the green. And you do not have to wait for this paint to dry completely. It's actually better if you pull it up just a little bit wet, but be careful that you don't get your fingers in the paint on your board. Step six. Now we're going to glue the washers down to the little signs that we made. I didn't paint my packs yet. We're going to use a gorilla glue, a clear gorilla glue. Put these somewhere to dry. Step seven. And now we're going to paint our post and all the pieces to the post. Post and post pieces. We're just going to paint it white. Everything is going with this coat of white. What color is it? Cylindrical. Crenolin. Crenolin. I think it was something to see. Okay. We have this wood post base trim, which we're going to use to put around the bottom of this thing. So I'm going to paint it. These were like four dollars or something. But it's already cut perfectly. Trim. That's the way I like it. Glue it in around. And now we're going to assemble it. We're going to put some pilot holes with a countersink in the bottom. I'm using some three inch screws. Four of them. Put them in the bottom. Now to have these little scraps, these little square scraps from a picket. We're just going to glue them. Put them in the corners. Now we're just going to tag it with an inch and a quarter of Brad. The nail. Not the guy. It's been so long. It's been, we missed you Brad. Let's put this puppy over. We're too tall in here to be on this stool. Oh yeah. Stool is a good idea. Well, you didn't put your base cap on. Are we just going to glue it or are you going to Brad nail it? Oh, we're going to Brad nail it. We've got our base cap. Now I think we're done. Hold on. Let's go get the sign pieces. All right. Ready? Moment of truth. Let's see if our theory works and the magnets will hold these boards up. Oh yeah. I don't know. Is this how they go? Yep. Looks like it's inset pretty far. I think it's stuck on it. Yeah. You cannot see the pumpkin on top. Oh, you guys can't see the pumpkin. It's a pumpkin pumpkin. Look how cute that is. And we have a surprise for you. I'm going to move the camera so they can see the whole thing. Okay. All right. I'm back with some Halloween ones. We'll take off the fall. Oh Christmas. Look at that. Interchangeable. The magnets worked. Yes. I love it. It's exactly what I was envisioning in my head. So good job. And they're all beautiful. I love all of them. I love that the magnets allow us to swap it out. We can make it anything we want. Like porch rules. We can put the magnets closer together and make it porch rules. You can make it an Easter bunny. An Easter bunny. You can do all kinds of things with it. It's late and time. So we're going to go eat some dinner. And we'll see you next week where we'll do a building and make it again. Ooh, you think I can balance it? You think all the things will stay on it while I balance it? No, I don't. Yeah, I think so. Oh, no. It's a quick one. Oh my God, it's so heavy. Woo!