So this weekend was a very busy weekend for our family. In case you couldn't tell, we are big Denver Broncos fans and with it being playoff football, I surprised my wife with Broncos tickets. Our son is a little young to enjoy the games, so he was going to be staying in town with my parents while we went up and enjoyed.
We love spending as much time as possible with Aiden as we can, so we decided we needed to do a fun activity with him on Saturday. He loves the show Dinosaur Train, so we decided we would take him to a exhibition in town called Jurassic Quest. Sounded like a great idea, until we arrived and the dinosaurs were very life like with actual movement and sounds. We ended up staying for a max of 10 minutes. So instead we just played at home, to much snow out to go out and enjoy the park.
Saturday night, I also was finishing up a present that I was making for our friends. It was our Christmas present to them. If I can, I prefer to make the present for friends and family. It doesn't always work out depending on what they want, but in this case, it was possible.
Our friends love to play Cornhole. We have all been playing for a few years, but I am the only one who had a board that was made, not bought. I decided this needed to be changed so that more than one board was available for everyone to borrow.
Home Depot sells the size board needed, so luckily I didn't have to measure and use a table saw to cut the boards to the right sizes. The hole does need to be drilled, but it's very easy as there is an attachment to make the size hole that's required. Here is the hole cutter. I didn't get a picture of it, but its very easy. It attaches to any hand held drill and goes right through the board. Once the holes were cut, and sanded, just a few coats of white exterior paint to coat the whole board. If this was internal, primer would work as well, but since I was saving as much time as possible, the white exterior was the choice as portions of the board were going to stay this color.
Once I was certain the paint was dry, I used Scotch Blue Painters Tape to paint off all sections that will be white, and get the board ready for its colors. Not only are my wife and I Bronco fans, so are our friends. I wanted to make a Broncos board for them. Unknown to me prior to going to Home Depot was that there is a paint out there that actually has all the team colors. Not just NFL, but MLB, NBA, Colleges, Racing and NHL. Made matching the colors that much easier. So when you are worrying how you are going to match your team colors perfectly, don't. Just go to Home Depot and use Glidden. That
link takes you to their site so you can see the teams available.
I started with orange first due to it being the lighter color of the two that needed to be painted. In case there was a mistake; I know a darker color will cover the lighter than vice versa. I have never painted with exterior paint before, and I feel like it does not coat as well as interior; probably due to it having more chemicals to with stand the elements. It actually took 3 coats of orange to coat a white board. Knowing it will with stand the abuse they will receive was worth the extra coat.
This blue looked so dark going on. Was very hard to see how this was going to come out looking like the broncos color. And once again, it took 3 coats to make sure now white was peaking its face through.
Once the blue paint had only been drying a few times on the third coat, I put some latex gloves on and removed the tape. I like removing it before it dries; I feel it gets a crisper edge. Then the waiting game once again started. I had to make sure everything was dry. For some reason, probably same reason that water wont boil while you watch it, this paint never seemed to dry. Eventually it dried and I was able to do the final 2 steps.
The Bronco head is a sticker bought of Amazon. Once it was placed on the board, I used clear polyurethane to go over the bronco edges. I want it to have a tight seal against the wood. It came out looking great. I was worried it would be too shiny, but with the semi gloss paint, you could not tell it was done. In all, I think they will really like these.
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