art project

[dragonlady7]

markers, power tools, folk art patterns

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sooo for working on the cabin I finally got myself an impact drill. Like…. BIL suggested it at the beginning– he’s got one, but a big project like this can really wear out a tool, and just having a new one to start with can make it go better, and so on. And then he talked me into getting a nailgun instead, so I did that. But the last few steps we’ve used screws a lot more, and I finally was like, listen, just, when you’re next at the hardware store, here’s my credit card, get me a drill like yours, so we don’t have to like stand around and wait for each other so much.

So he did, he bought me the same one, and then it was bundled with two batteries and a charger and a case and he was like Why Not, and so he got that for me. And a little kit of bits to go with it so it could be used for driving screws instead of drilling. Sure. Why not. Everything is DeWalt brand and is the yellow and black, and that’s the color of everything in the workshop.

And it’s not like i mind if my stuff gets kinda mixed in with the rest, but…. I mean…. why not mark that it’s mine? So I brought it home with me, figuring I’d just like, put lil B’s on everything, just so for later one could recognize whose was whose, if it ever mattered.

But then I got thinking and was like, you know, I can do better. So I picked up a pack of paint markers and looked online and found some vector art of Polish folk embroidery and figured that was just about my skill level, that I could freehand-draw that, and sure enough, I could.

So now I have an embroidered DeWalt set. Pics behind cut:

I painted the batteries and the charger too, just simple flowers on them.

So now in future if some employee has to run into the workshop, and BIL says “get the impact drill, the one without flowers on it”, and they see two impact drills and one has flowers on it and one doesn’t, well that clears things up.

I’m gonna try to seal it, I think, with either mod podge or like, UV resin or somesuch, but I’ll let it really dry first. (Your picture was not posted)

Comments

[harpers_child]

Mod podge takes 2 weeks to fully cure. I'd use a spray on polyurethane. Matte will show wear less than gloss. I haven't played with UV resin so I don't know how it wears.

[minoanmiss]

*takes notes*