Boards

My three sisters and I all had these red boards when we were younger-  about 18x24 in size, give or take and a nice deep red color, each with our own name in the upper left hand corner.  Over at my dad's, my sisters used to put their notes for Santa on them and Santa would leave our gifts next them.  That was every bit of 25-30 years ago.  And all four of us still have them.  Mine has been used for everything under the sun- they are awesome.  As I write- I am using it as a lapboard for my computer.

So Matt and I decided a while back we wanted to make some for the boys- Caelan, Solon and Luke.  And this Christmas we made all of our gifts for people so this was the year for the boards-  the thing was, it took a little bit longer than we anticipated!  So they were about a week or so late getting shipped down South.  And I didn't tell my sisters what was coming- but they both cried when their boys unwrapped these!

Matt cut the boards painted (many coats) of primer and paint.  I painted the names on them.  Caelan "signed" them with his handprint on the back of each one.

Priceless!!