I had an idea, which morphed into another idea, and then finally settled on the final idea. I wanted to make a personal piece of "art" that reflected some of our families favorite games to display in our newly finished basement. So I stumbled through Ebay, (I'm not very good at Ebaying) and bought
way too many some scrabble tiles and a game board.
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| (I have sold a few extra sets on KSL.com, but still have more to sell!) |
I laid out a grid on Excel and started arranging words describing things the Tobler's play or liked to play when younger.
I was limited by the fact that board has only 15 spaces by 15 spaces and their were many words and games that did not fit. I would have liked to added "piano" and "lucky unders". I glued a piece of foam board on the back to make it stable and give it depth when mounted.
I glued each piece in place and then took it to Roberts Crafts to have it framed. As luck would have it, it fit nicely inside a premade 16" x 16" frame so I didn't have to pay for a custom frame. The framer did a great job giving it some depth in a little shadow box effect. I loved the attention it got as I took the finished product up to the register to check out.
I was so excited to go home and hang it up! I love the finished product. (For anyone studying the actual words, wondering why we have CRUD on there, it is a fun game you play on a pool table, you earn the letters as you loose a turn and when you spell out crud, you are eliminated.)
