Dollhouse Miniature Santa Stop Here Sign

 

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This week I have another Christmas project for the dollhouse for you a Santa stop here sign. I have seen these in yards for many years and I always thought they were so cute. I did make my sign white with red lettering my white gel pen died on me and I really just didn't want to try to do the small lettering with paint this week. I think it is really cute this way and a lot brighter and easier to read too. You can of course reverse the colors on yours if you wish or change the colors completely for that matter.

I was did try a couple of different ideas before I settled on this one. I wanted to make this a project anyone could do. Played around mostly with trying to come up with a simple way to draw the octagon shape for the sign. If you have a pattern or a better idea than what I came up with go with what works best for you. This is just one way to do it.

As for the post, I used a wooden skewer from the kitchen (actually if is the opposite end of the one I cut for the the handle on the mailbox last week) With the point trimmed just a bit I discovered it fit into the ½” wooden spool I used for the bottom. I used some tacky glue to attach them securely together.

I was hoping the spool would be wide enough to stand on its own but it was way too tippy so I added a base made from some bits of one of those giant craft-sticks I got at Walmart. They are 1 ¼” wide so I cut two pieces 1 ¼” long from one. I wanted to make the base square so I could glue the two pieces together with the grain going in different directions. They are pretty thin and tend to warp but this really helped to keep them flat.

I painted the spool and about 3” of the skewer with some white paint as well as the squared base.

I cut the skewer just below where I started painting to make it about 3” long and then glued the spool to the base.

While the post unit was drying I created the stop sign. I just drew a circle om printer paper and then folded it into eights and trimmed off the round edge. I ended up with a passable octagon. I then used this as a pattern to cut one out of white card-stock. After this was cut I glued it to my card-stock and cut around it. I repeated this to make 4 layers of card-stock for a nice sturdy sign. I then did the lettering on the sign first with a pencil then traced it with a red ball point pen. I edged the sign with a Bic alcohol marker.

I then decided that post was just too white and too plain. I decided to add some red trim to it.

Once all the paint was dry I coated the post unit with some Mod Podge and allowed it to dry.

Once everything was dry I glued the sign to the post and again allowed to dry.

I added some Mod Podge to areas where I felt snow would probably stick and added some white glitter. Once dry the sign was ready to display.

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