WHERE YA AT?!

Everything is bigger in Texas! :D

 If yall love Pinterest then you might have seen this around to the right and below 

The Pin 

I think its super cute and thought it would be easy. Is anything really easy? NAH! But we try :D As I was going through making this had to go back a lot and redo some things. So I will have many many MANY tips for you guys to hopefully make this easier.

The List of things you need are: About $15 (I only bought the Wood, Nails, and String because I had everything else)

• •   Wood (I got two pieces of wood from Joann’s or go the wood craft section in a craft store. Size can be whatever I got 12" x 12")
• •   Nails (which ever size you thing you want, you want something small but still have a head so the string is easier to loop around.)
• •   Paint (any kind)
• •   String (I think the brand was DMC the color is cotton perle and under it saw 10g which I’m also guessing is the size.)
• •   Wood glue
• •   Fin sand paper or razor blade
• •   Scissors

Step One: prepping your board and painting it. And when I mean pepping I mean I glued two pieces of wood to make it thicker. After it dries your wood (mine did) have little burs on top of the block of wood. To take off the burs you can use a fine sand paper or I took a razor blade and scraped lightly across the board until smooth.

Step Two: while waiting for you paint to dry, glue or whatever. Print out a template of your state that you chose or if you’re a fancy drawer then draw it out (I’m not!). Print it, cut it, tape it, BAM your good. Also this might be a good time to put a heart at where you live, love, visited, or maybe your celebrity crush lives there. (Just kidding about the last part)

Step Three: NAIL IT! Okay this was the hardest part for me. As I was nailing threw the black line for some reason some the nails were harder to nail in. also some would just jumps out for no reason, I left them out because I had a plan B (ill tell you later why plan B didn’t work). I finally figured about half way through to use a pushpin to mark where I wanted to nail but to also make it easier to hammer the nail in deeper. It was a little tedious but it was worth it to see that one thing went right. 

Don't freak out over crocked nails. Your state isn't even and neither should this be.

Step Four: After you get all the nails in about the state and the heart you want the CARFULLY rip the paper off the board. If some of the nails come out just nail it back in. My plan B when I took off the paper was to glue the nails in with super glue and just set the in the nail hole. Well it didn’t work because when I went to loop the string around the nails that were glued the nail would tip over. So just nail the back in and make sure that all the nails are secure. 

Looks pretty cool without the string too.

Step Five: Make sure that all nails are secure. I had to go back at least two times to fixes the nails that were coming out. When using the string at first to me it looked like the person made individual loops or string to the heart nail to the state nails. But when I started to study the photo I saw it was continues zigzag pattern.  When I first started to stratigize how many state nails will go to the heart pin. Well I figures about 8 to 11 for each one would be fine. THE PATTERN: Start with a loop and tie a knot so it stays secure. Then the pattern is state nail, heart nail, next state nail, and the same state nail from before.

There will be section that you have to leave black because the string would go outside the nail line. Leave that blank and go back alter with a smaller zigzag. After all the zigzagging is done then cut off all strings and....

WHOOP! YOU DID IT!