Christening Stonecrest Property

 I have mentioned the three live-edge walnut boards I purchased a few weeks ago. The first one was used to make to live-edge shelves for the laundry room. Click here to read that post.

We used the second one to make a sign for our "new" Ozark home.  Right after we purchased this property a year ago we mulled over what to call it.  We have never owned real property before.  It seemed only natural to give it a name. After seeing all of the rocks on the property, and on the exterior of the house we decided to christen it Stonecrest.  We toyed around with the idea of paying someone hundreds of dollars to create a sign for the front yard.  But the walnut board inspired my husband to make one himself.  $20 for the board and the finish instead of $400 -- yeah, that is a deal.

So he cut out the letters himself with a jigsaw.  Used a walnut stain on the bottom board.  Fixed the letters with little nails and liquid nails.  Finished with a maritime poly.  Then we attached rods to the back to hold it in place on the rock berm in front of the house (click here to read about the creation of the berm).