YUM! How To Make Vintage Inspired Letters

YUM!  A word to make you smile. What food makes you say yum?  A big bowl of pasta?  A ripe peach?  A slice of a decadent chocolate cake?  

Whatever it is, after seeing the word YUM on a kitchen wall in an episode of Fixer Upper on HGTV (I seriously love this show--love Joanna Gaines' style), I knew I had to make one.  

Fixer Upper's consisted of vintage marquee letters.

My YUM was created with wood.

I started with a sketch.

I then cut the wood, using the very professional lay it out, eye it, grab a piece of nearby wood for a straight edge, pencil out, take it to the chop saw and cut the angle the best you can method.

For the U, I used a thin piece of plywood (maybe a drawer bottom?) and sketched out the U

and cut it with a jigsaw.

For the middle pieces of the M put the wood face to face and then cut a parallelogram at 45 degree angles.

I put the Y and the M together with thin wood pieces on the back.

Here is what it looked like prior to painting.

I used the wax, layered paint technique found HERE

There are D rings on the back to hang them, but I also like it sitting on a shelf (aka, they are staged--read my staging confession HERE).   Yum--a fresh take on the EAT and maybe inspiration to cook up something wonderful!  

Now, I am hungry...