The Ambivalent Crafter: Hit it out of the park!

NOTE: If you're not a baseball fan (Mom), just power through the first paragraph. I wanted to share my inspiration for this project.

Last year was an exciting year for this house full of baseball fans: finally seeing our home team of the Texas Rangers in the World Series. This year, the Rangers have spent a good part of the year leading the AL West, so I'm hoping that means we'll see them in back-to-back World Series games. At the beginning of last week, they were up by 8 games over the Angels, but the series against Boston brought that big lead down considerably. Going into the final weeks of the regular season, I wanted to provide a talisman of sorts to bring the Rangers a little luck to see them into the playoffs again this year. I think it's working: as soon as I put this project up on the mantle, David Murphy hit a 2-run homer. Yea, Murph!

I decided the best venue for me to show a little Rangers love was my "Words for All Seasons" blocks that I made at the Little Blue House (http://thelittlebluehouseblog.blogspot.com/p/lbh-buffet-classes.html). These are 6 wooden blocks of varying heights that are covered with torn pages of an old book (Mod-Podge to adhere, then a little brown ink to further age and distress the paper). The blocks rest on a shelf, and have upholstery nails at the top from which you can hang tags to spell out your sentiment. I create new tags for these about every month to 6 weeks to share a holiday message, display family photos, or personal philosophy.

Here's the finished project. Click the link below the picture for a play-by-play on how I did it.