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Originally Posted by Xidelt
sylvia, how long did it take you to make your paddle? just curious! i don't have that much creativity in my whole body! when i had to make mine, i bought all of the wooden letters, symbols, etc. i was too afraid to paint it b/c i thought i would mess it up. and it got kind of expensive really quickly...all of the letters and symbols add up fast!
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i'm not going to lie, it took a really long time to make it all... several coats of paint on the main part and around the edges... but it was fairly inexpensive since I did all of the wording by hand with paint markers and paintbrushes.
the rose was a 99cent piece i picked up at Michaels, it was prepainted pink, i stripped the pink off and painted that white. My paddle was like 20 or 25 dollars, I forget and then like 5ish dollars for the jewels... i had to buy several packs to find the colors I needed. Anyways, it turned out exactly how I had imagined. I'm an art major so creativity was a must!
It's fun to experiment with paint! I just found out yesterday that I'm getting my first little so I will be making her a small paddle I think. =)
In all, it probably took ehhhhh at least 10 hours or more I would imagine. i was very excited about making it so I forget how long I really spent on it... silly enough, I spent a lot of time just planing it out how everything was going to fit on it! On the back, I wrote a ton and I painted an oriental style tiger.
maybe i will post pictures of that part later....
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