chocolate: What Do You See?

I almost entitled this post “Do You See What I See?”, but then that Christmas song started going through my head. Like. an. earworm!

Do you remember the post where I mentioned going back to Goodwill two days after I had been there, hoping to find something that I had picked up and put down again? If you don’t, trust me, I did. It was all the fault of Carolyn at My Backyard Eden and her project with chord charts.

Picture from My Backyard Eden

A little background is needed here. My son’s birthday is today; he’s 20! He loves guitars and is basically self-taught. I played guitar when I was younger, too, so including my old one, he has 4 or 5 different kinds of guitars in his room. Carolyn’s chord chart project gave me an excellent idea to make something for his birthday. With this.

This is where the “what do you see?” question comes in. The day I was at Goodwill and picked it up, then put it back down, it looked to me like a guitar! When I eventually got it and showed my daughter, she didn’t see a guitar. It is obviously some kind of wacky cheese board, but I saw a guitar. And a guitar it shall become!

Since he always seems to lose his guitar picks {as I did when I was playing}, I decided to make this as a decorative piece, but also to serve the function of holding his picks. First it needs to be guitared up! I started by painting it with Rustoleum’s Oil Rubbed Bronze.

I then found tack like nails and put two on each side of what would be the neck/top of the guitar. Don’t know if you can see them in this picture {above}, but they’re there.

I got sheet music, in this case, Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody {because who doesn’t like Queen!} and tea stained the papers to age them, after I cut them to fit the areas I wanted it to go in. In this case for the back and the front.

My hubby cut two small pieces of scrap wood for me, which were also sprayed ORB and became the pieces that would hold the “strings” and be the fret at the bottom.