Backgammon Game

I have been busy working on stuff for the booth. I finally got some decent photos. 

This is a Backgammon game/tray I created from a cabinet door I got at a church garage sale.  

The edge was already painted red, but i sanded it and added a tinted glaze to calm the color down.

 I Put a green wash over the center of the door. Let it set for a while and then whipped off the access. I painted the chevrons in black and turquoise and used stamps to create a pattern down the center.

I made game pieces using wooden toy wheels. Painted, sanded, aged them with tinted glaze and polyurethane them, so they are durable. 

The tray could be used as a game or a tray. It would be great on a coffee table in a game room or used in a bar with glass canisters on it.  

The Backgammon game/tray is at my booth @ Nellie & Nicos. I hope you can come in soon and see it.

 

February 8 Auction

 I had a piece commissioned for an up coming auction. This checkers table will be in the live auction being held by ADK Alpha Alpha Chapter and all proceeds go to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The Auction is being held Feb 8 from 5 to 7pm @ Merriam Park Elementary, Merriam, KS, .

 I bought this table at a yard sale last summer.It had a dark brown finish and was pretty beat up. I kind of always invisioned it as a game table. When I saw it, I thought the squares on the sides would be great dice and the rectangles on the legs looked like dominoes.

  

 

I used wooden toy wheels to make the checkers and strung them with a piece of leather from holes drilled in the bib. You can easily undo to the knot to get the checkers off and they will never get lost.  

 I used foam stamps to spell out CHECKERS on the top of the table.

I painted the checkers board black and then, using Modge Podge, I adhered pattern paper to create the squares.  

 

I hope you can make it to the auction. 

Cribbage Board

I came across these cribbage tables on Etsy created by David Pearson. I thought they were great.

My husbands family LOVE playing cribbage. If you don't know, It is a card game. the boards are usually a lot smaller that this. this is the first time I had ever seen a table made into a cribbage board.  

A couple of weeks after I saw David's creations, I ran across this cribbage board at a thrift store. I couldn't believe my eyes. It was stained dark brown and didn't have any markings on it. I'm not sure why the bench is shaped the way it is, the sides are wavy. I knew I had to have it. 

I had a great time making my version of the cribbage board. wooden games are pretty fun to do. I have now made a checker board table, a cribbage table and a checker board tray, that I need to take pictures of, and I have been commissioned to do another smaller checker board table. 

Maybe this will become my "thing".