I planned to rest the paint brush on a few hooks or nails sticking out of the wall, but I decided to rest it on top of the canvas. Laying it out really helps me visualize how the pieces will all hang together. I borrowed the pictures from the Repurposed Frame Tutorial to lay it all out, as my other prints were on order. I used vinyl circles cut from the Fussy Mussy Designs shop by my friend Staci. I veered a different direction from the Pottery Barn original, I wanted just the 6 rainbow colors, and I wanted them centered on the pallete. My post was 30 minutes late, but I did it.įor the actual palette, I used a standard piece of wood, and cut it the size I wanted it above my canvas. When I did, I debated as to whether or not I could pull it off (make it, then re take the room pictures). I planned to use the other one, but I just happened to drive all over town that morning just to check and see if I could find an old school broom that would work. I just can’t get over how funny that was!Īnother funny story about this paint brush is that I changed my plan to make this just a few hours before my post was to go live, which was time sensitive, being the last post to wrap up the 2014 Decorating with Pictures series. I cam home to it open again and realized my can of spray paint was in the just the right spot to be knocked, spray the wall blue, and the door went back up. I was spraying the brush outside, had to leave, closed my garage door, it came back up, closed it again as I drove away. When I found my broom at Wal Mart, I snipped off the wire with wire cutters, cut the bristles at an angle, and spray painted it black! $5, not so bad! I put the handle of the broom inside my tube, and taped it all together.
I spray painted it blue, and had silver duct tape ready to wrap. I would think that wrapping paper tubes would do a similar job, two taped together. I figured the palette part would be easy enough, but how exactly was I going to make the brush? I first tried using a bunch of yarn, but that didn’t work out so well.įor the base of the paintbrush, I used a big brown tube that my husband brought home from work. I LOVE giant things (remember my giant silverware in my kitchen?) I even considered buying it (I had a moment of weakness) but the brush is no longer available. I’d always loved it, but never looked too closely at it. I’d seen this floating around the internet for years, the Pottery Barn Paint Set. Then she started a sewing business which she called Rainbow Custom Creations. When I was on drill team in high school, she was the head seamstress making crazy costumes for 70+ girls on my team. I’m trying to be better (see this video of me using a power saw) and braver. Neither myself or my brothers really picked up that passion. She gives my husband tools for Christmas and gets all giddy that he loves the power tools as much as she does. She was the handy one around our home growing up, got her degree in Home Ec! She shadowed her dad in his wood shop as a young child, and learned the tricks of the trade. She definitely taught me that I can create or build whatever my mind dreams up.
Since I can’t see her in person, (and because I neglected to mail a package a month ago to get to her by today) I thought this was the next best thing. Some of you may remember that my parents are currently living in Ghana serving a full time mission for our church. Today is my mom’s birthday! Her knick name is Rainy and she loves rainbows, so I though in honor of her, I’d post about my Pottery Barn Knock Off Giant Paint Pallet and Brush set from our Colorful Playroom Makeover.
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