Copy Cat Day - Wine Barrel - LINK PARTY!

Welcome to Copy Cat Day!  Welcome to Copy Cat Day!  Okay, bad joke.  Today I'm hosting a LINK PARTY!  (I guess I didn't make that clear enough!)  The theme is copying.  What do I have in store today?  This is what I copied--A French wine barrel lid Lazy Susan.  I was really tempted to do Napa, but went with classic French, instead.

I'm sure many of you saw Sherry's at No Minimalist Here.  As soon as I saw hers, I knew I'd buy the first wooden Lazy-Susan I found.  This one was $2 and someone(s) had used it as a cutting board.  Why you'd want a rotating cutting board is beyond me!   I used my palm sander and thought I had most of the cutting marks out.   Then I looked around for inspiration of what I wanted to put on it.  This was the inspiration photo I used, after searching for French wine labels--it's an ad for a tile backsplash.  Ooo la la!

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Fonts were chosen using the closet I could find to Clos Saint-Denis (Colonna MT) and Cotes du Rhone (Cloister Black Light).  The words where printed out on Word.  Then I did the high-tech method of transferring by rubbing the back of the printout with pencil, then tracing it onto the wood, filling in with craft paint and a paint brush.  I need to get a paint pen!

I noted that the American wine lids all read 59 gallons and wondered why they were not 60 gallons.  When I decided I wanted to add the "gallon" amount to my "lid," I transferred it to liters.  Then, I discovered that 59 gallons = 225 liters.  When I double checked the European barrels, they, indeed, read 225 liters.  Mystery solved.

After I painted the letters, I began staining it.  Don't you know, all of the cutting marks and many more that I did not see began to show up all over the place.  Why, why, didn't I think about stain doing that?!  Then it was time for panic damage control.

I brought it in the house and began using a combination of brown and black paint--my "go to" colors when I want to simulate wood.  I was really not liking the project very much at this point.  Now that it's completed, I like it again--It looks nice and rustic.  What about you?  It's time to strut your stuff.  Whom have you been copying and how have your Copy Cat efforts been going?


I'm joining these lovely hostesses:




Gently grab the kitty and link up!



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Link up rules.
The fine print:

1. Link your post, not your general URL. (Click on the title of your post. Copy and paste from your address bar.) This is important, if you think you could be featured.  Are you a new blogger and not quite sure how to link properly?  Click HERE.

2. Be polite. Link to this blog with my Copy Cat button or refer to this event in your post so others can join in the fun.

3. Please no direct Etsy or store links. It's okay if you are showing us how to do something, then putting it in your store.

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