Don’t forget just under the front lip of the tread of each step!.

I opened the first one up, the whole time thinking how ridiculous it was that I was using one sharp object (scissors) to try to get at another sharp object (the knife), all while creating a third sharp object (the sharp edges of the plastic).And I could have slipped at any moment because cutting through that hard plastic with my kitchen scissors was definitely a struggle.

It was particularly ridiculous because I’ve cut myself pretty badly in the past doing exactly the same thing!So that was enough excitement for me for one day and I left the second knife in its packaging..The next day I picked up a baby thermometer at the store and it was in the same packaging.

Don’t worry, no one was sick, I think I just left my old one on a hotel bathroom counter somewhere at some point this Summer and it’s something I like to always have around.After going through that same struggle I thought “There has to be a better way!!”.

I put on my thinking cap and grabbed the second new knife, the one that was still in the packaging, to do some experimenting.. My first thought was to find some garden pruners so I went out to the mud room where we use.

an old shoe rack to keep all of our garden tools.We just used clamps to hold it all together while it dried.

We actually made these quite a while ago, so no pictures of the process!You can see that the construction is pretty simple from the back though.

I painted the front to make them look weathered using a bunch of different random paints that I had on hand at the time..I combined the two elements to make one big farmhousy piece of art for the wall!.