I'm In With The In Crowd.

Pallet projects are all over the craft world and they're all displayed on Pinterest. A couple of weeks ago, my neighbor put a pallet on the curb for garbage pickup. The garbage collectors were uninterested in the pallet. I was interested.

I hauled it over to my porch, where it sat for a couple of weeks. I searched Pinterest for inspiration, hoping that I would see a picture of something and think, "that's it!" and merrily skip to my project.

I rarely skip.

Inspiration did not come from Pinterest, however. It came from tripping over shoes by the door for the eleventy hundredth time.

I set Jonathan to work with a sander, which made him extremely happy.

And then the hubs started pulling it apart.

There was no grand plan for this.  Usually, I've sketched out an idea and I have exact measurements and whatnot... but for pallet art (as I've told my husband it's called) the point is to be rustic.  So I told Dave where to cut and set him to work.

We used the scrap pieces to form the sides and then I let Jonathan paint.  I told him that it doesn't have to be perfect, which is why a six-year old is great for this job.

This is not a great tutorial, but one isn't really needed here... it's too simple.  The end result? A shoe rack.  For free.  That actually looks pretty good.

This picture is lame, I know.  It was already dark out and my camera is crappy and the moon was not aligned with the north star.  Or something.  But you'll have to trust me, this turned out so great. Pallet art.

I tried for weeks to find a shoe rack that I liked, and it was impossible.  A simple, two shelf shoe rack should not be impossible to find.  But I see now that it was all part of a grand plan for me to find a pallet and turn it into poetry.

I weep just looking at it.

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