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More decorationsWanda wanted some simulated Christmas presents for the front yard. Not just simple boxes, but boxes with stripes and dots like wrapping paper, enhanced with glitter (ugh). Simple…hold my beer.Three plywood boxes. First issue was that the 1/2” exterior plywood was so rough it looked like a plowed field. No problem, just use interior plywood and make it weatherproof, well resistant.Construction of the boxes was straightforward. I coated each with 3 coats of exterior oil-base Kiilz. The cut edges were first soaked well with the Kilz thinned about 10% with mineral spirits in order for it to soak in well.They were then sprayed with silver and gold paint. The I masked off stripes on the large box (silver) and sprayed the stripes gold – didn't show up well. Solution – enhance the color with glitter! Re-taped and sprayed with contact adhesive and quickly sprinkled the glitter on (outside, of course – can you imagine that much glitter indoors?). The oversprayed the glitter with exterior acrylic to waterproof the contact …... how many steps was this ?The smaller gold boxes were the same process except for spraying through a round hole in a template.Out of caution, they are sitting on pieces of 2×4 to keep them off the ground.The Christmas tree balls were made by painting styrofoam balls with 2 coats of the Kilz, as spray paint dissolves styrofoam. Then, contact adhesive and lots of gltter, and acrylic. The 'metal' caps are shaving cream can caps, which I save for mixing glue.Result, not bad – our retirement community has 945 homes and there is a contest for best decoration – we took 5th place.



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