 Thanksgiving is right around the corner so we did some front porch fall the core with a little Thanksgiving flavor using some handmade techniques our cricket and a glow forge and we'll show you how we did it right now what is up welcome back do you like to do a little make it so do we and we have a new video each week this week we're doing something I know you'll gobble up some Thanksgiving fall front porch stuff things like some decor some like some decor yep so we're gonna continue with our Thanksgiving theme we started last week with our table decorations but I found a few more things that I thought would be fun for this week and well last week was indoors this week we're taking it back outdoors kind of so yes we are taking it outdoors we're gonna make a wreath we're gonna make a standing porch sign and we're gonna make a cute little standing turkey I saw this little turkey I thought he was adorable and I was like Garrett can you make me something like this with the feet I need feet and he had to be standing with his little feet so he designed it we made it kind of goes with the gnomes and a lot of people who love the gnomes and love those standing gnomes so hopefully you like this little standing turkey and I think it will be great as a project for kids because it'll be easily paintable oh yeah yeah it's easily paintable alright project number one is a standing towering Tom turkey standing at 24 inches step one we're gonna gather all of our materials we really just needed some MDF we're using some quarter inch and then we need some paints because he's a colorful turkey and I think that's it right oh glue and some glue paint glue MDF step two now we're gonna take Tom over to the glue forge and cut them out of the MDF step three now we paint so I got all of our little pieces cut out out of the MDF that's his head and chest his body oh he's a little fatty we're gonna throw a coat of this chalk paint on there we're gonna use our country chic chalk paint chalk paint it's not like clay paint stuff is like we're gonna use fireworks says the green red is paint the town and yellow is fresh mustard and that's what I'm painting these feathers was that knape yep well knape what is a knape you're gonna use brown using this brown dark roast and a knape if you know what a knape is let me know in the comment down below for and now we're gonna assemble it we're gonna use this clear gorilla glue contact adhesive and then slide his feet together and he stands look at that he is so cute see I told you he was gonna be adorable pretty sturdy too so the plan is to sit him outside sit him on the porch now he is made of MDF so you can order this in our store Kimmy Garrett make it comm forward slash store or just take your register can g make it comm yeah we'll get you right to our store so this is out of MDF so you don't want him to get soaking wet because the MDF will soak up the water it's not made out of pressure-treated lumber like we do our front porch welcome signs but if you have a covered porch he could stand outside otherwise he can stand inside on a front table looks adorable we are going to hit him with some clear acrylic to seal it yeah some poly acrylic so I'll take that out but because nose needs to dry a little bit more so we'll lay him down take a nap guy take a nap project number two welcome sign well regular welcome sign easy welcome sign easy welcome sign yes step one we're gonna gather all of our materials we just needed a one by 12 some MDF and some paints right we're using we were planning to make this out of our pickets like we normally do the dog ear fence pickets like we do our other signs but if you recall and you watch last week's video where would it be right there we did the tabletop lanterns and we used just a piece of this one by 12 no this was actually used for the standing oh yeah it was the standing porch post yes the porch post anyway did one little nugget of it yes we just used 11 inches of it so I instead of making the pickets are using the pickets I thought we'd have this is the perfect size it's 60 inches so it's five feet it's the perfect size to make a sign so we're gonna use this now like I just said with Tom turkey over there the pickets are pressure treated lumber and they're best for if you're gonna have it somewhat in the rain and the weather this board will not be pressure treated so we're gonna keep it under our covered porch it should be fine like that but I just wanted to caution you that this is just pine and it's not pressure treated it we're gonna put a poly track yeah we're gonna put a poly acrylic on it and and hopefully that'll keep it a little bit weatherproof but not as well as those pickets yeah that's right reuse recycle read something read mix purpose purpose step two we're gonna make all of our cuts oh well there's no real cuts to make it's just taken over the MDF back to the blow forge we're gonna cut out design so he created an SVG for me for this one I wanted it to say incredibly thankful the incredible kind of comes from our mr. Fox I love a fantastic mr. Fox and if you've seen one of our our form house sign a six foot form house sign these are just winging this anyway we love the word incredible we use it a lot so this is gonna say incredibly credible how much we use the word incredible yeah it is and so this one's gonna say incredibly thankful we'll have the SVG in our store so if you have a cricket at home you can create a stencil and you can stencil this or we're gonna make the MDF letters available in our store as well so that you can make the same sign that we're making so I don't have to make a cut for this we're gonna make it go ahead and take it on over the blow forage and cut out our letters step three now we're gonna stain and paint so I'm gonna stain our board first what we were just discussing and I can't decide what to do I think I'm gonna stain this and I'm debating on whether or not I want to coat a plate coat of white paint over top of it and distress it or if I just want to leave it stained our board is stained and now we're gonna paint our letters I shared with you last time a couple of projects again I don't know this technique for painting these letters and trying to keep these edges dark you'll use these little makeup sponges so you just dab it in your paint just get a little bit of paint on there so I dab it off and then paint it like that just do this dabbing technique and it does a great job of keeping those edges dark well we're painting the judges made a call and half of the board is now getting painted white yes so I have the letters laid out here I don't know how well you guys can see it from there they're just laid on here and it looks nice and I like the brown the brown was supposed to kind of bring in that alternate Thanksgiving color but it just doesn't have that pop so pinterest pop so what I think I'm gonna do is take care its idea and I'm gonna paint half of it white and distress it but leave the other half brown so stand brown yep I just want it to have some sort of different interests to it we're gonna use vanilla frosting oh vanilla frosting changing it up a little bit and with my last order of country chic paint I got this cute little beeswax bar will help with distressing so I haven't tried it yet we're gonna try it this time are you gonna rub it on the edges and stuff yeah what do you say we're gonna be rubbing yeah I would just stick to the edges okay we're distressed step four now we're gonna glue it down using this clear gorilla glue it's just like the regular stuff but clear great it looks great we're gonna have to set it aside to dry we do our next project while it dries project number three we're making our Tom turkey wreath it's a wreath yeah well it's cute it's something different than we normally it's just straight crafty just crafty is what this thing is we're gonna use up I'll let you I'll let you gather all your supplies first yeah step one we're gonna gather all of our supplies we just needed a piece of chipboard a circle of foam a 16 inch foam wreath some tool and all the typical fall Thanksgiving colors and some felt and the same colors I have a brown orange yellow tan red step two we're gonna make all of our cuts we're really just cutting this mesh stuff tool tool so we need we're gonna tie this around the foam wreath and we need them about 16 inches how long is this thing 20 inches that's too long I need something I told you this sitting just this is why we don't show you our craft it's crazy 17 so what we're gonna do here is Garrett Garrett we're gonna wrap this around okay how many times I want I think it'll be 15 times I think I'm just guessing here okay so just keep going until I tell you to stop oh okay put it on your finger now the plan is we'll have to do this one in a fast forward for you so in theory we have about 30 of these I don't really know how many we're gonna have to wait and see how we're doing the same thing with this one yes with all the colors we're gonna do the same thing with all the colors we're cutting 18 inch pieces 30 18 inch pieces and all of these colors yes next up as we tie this on you'll be able to see the first styrofoam wreath below below beneath it behind it under it yeah exactly so we're gonna paint this thing brown first we're gonna use our dark roast right here let's start wrapping our tool around the edges we're gonna do five of the same color in a row three and now we have the accents with completing put it our completed putting our tool on our wreath I love it look how great this looks I just love the way this looks this thing is super cute so now it needs a little accent right here so we got to stick with our turkey theme and put us a little Tom turkey right on here so I had Garrett go out find some clip art created us an SVG of a little turkey that you can use to cut on the glow forge you can use it to cut on the cricket so I think what we're gonna do today is use our cricket and we're going to cut a chipboard back well we're gonna cut the chipboard back yeah I'm gonna cut the chipboard back on the glue forage but you could cut it on your cricket and then we're gonna use felt I'm gonna use the same SVG and I'm gonna cut out the felt pieces in different colors using the cricket so I found while I was cutting the felt that it didn't cut all the way through so I had to use the wool felt setting and the rotary blade and then it cut really well except in some places I had to trim it just a little bit little scissors help we're back with all of our felt pieces our little piece of chipboard here and I think I'm gonna try this Mod Podge the spray Mod Podge that one of our viewers sent to us Oh you're crickin' like so you stay together look at this little guy isn't that so cute it would have been easier if we made it all out of chipboard yeah are we gonna put him just hang him out right there yeah I think he needs to say happy Thanksgiving all you think so yeah I might have to add a little something last minute add to this project all right I'm just blue here yeah a lot of it yeah great job I got you you go in and I'll catch it oh my goodness all right go in get it all right I definitely think it's gonna need some we're gonna add a little something extra but we'll do that for final shots needs happy Thanksgiving yeah what do you think sure show you what we're working with looking pretty cute isn't that cute but I still think it's missing something right here so I think we're gonna cut out a happy Thanksgiving and put that what is this back here it's like a lot of hot glue what are you doing babe a lot of hot glue you guys think you guys got like this tall Tom turkey guy over here look at how cute this turned out we added the happy Thanksgiving with a tiny Tom turkey yep but I tell you what I wouldn't do it out of felt again no was an idea was an idea wasn't the best idea it's not bad it kept it light but felt it was hard to glue down it wasn't stick in and then I got that mod pod roll over my fingers and yeah hint don't use the Mod Podge use the hot glue that worked a lot better I just come back with hot glue and I'm loving the porch sign yeah did you notice we had to go back and add the happy Thanksgiving yeah last minute add yeah and while I had the hot glue out for this I fixed old mini Tom over here no many tiny Tom tiny Tom and then our five foot tall five foot tall sign here it looks good I like the two tones I enjoy the two tones will something different never done it before like we said both of these are available in our store we'll put the thankful letters incredible which will be in three pieces because they can't ship it in one and then the whole Tom turkey would be a fun craft for kids and that'll be in our store as well oh yeah would be a fun craft for the kids kind of like a paint by numbers minus the numbers and this one too it's pretty easy just a little takes a little time to try all these things on but looks really cute super crafty I love how they all coordinate I love the colors yeah that is great me and Tom got to hit the road so we'll see you next week we'll do it building to make it again