So I have finally come to an end of crafting for my big. We were supposed to be initiated on Sunday of November 9th but due to some mishaps with room scheduling we didn’t get initiated until yesterday, November 16th. So that gave me a whole week to fix my paddle from its hot glittery mess to something I felt much more confident with.

I did the procedure I talked about in the last post but this time it was more intense because there was so much glitter involved.

So here is what you will need if you ever need to bring your paddle up from a glittery grave:

1. A paint scraper
2. Sandpaper (I used 80 grade)
3. paint

First I used the paint scraper and scratched up and down really quick and hard to remove as much glitter and paint as I could. Once I got as much as I could off I started to sandpaper it. I used 80 grade because the sandpaper was rougher but because of this I had to do it lightly because my goal was to remove all the paint and glitter without damaging the wood. I tried my best but I did mess up the grain in the wood a bit causing some areas to look kind of fussy. Once most of the paint and glitter was removed I started to paint the paddle again. I used pink craft paint from Walmart that was only 50 cents! It worked really well and I was very happy with the color.

Once I was finished painting the front of the paddle and it had dried I moved on to the back of the paddle. With the back I decided to mix the pink I already had and white to make a nice light pink to add contrast to my paddle.

When my base coat was completely done and dry I took jewels and glued them onto my paddle with Mod Podge to form into the Greek letters DZ (delta zeta). After that I took a green paint pen and wrote out Taylor’s name in all capitals since shes big and then my name at the bottom in all lowercase letters since I’m little. Then I moved to the top of the paddle and messed around with the jewels until I was able to form a pretty tiara since my family is called “The Royal Family.” Once the front was dry and finished I moved onto the back,

For the back I took a pencil and drew outlines of rose petals. It was like drawing those V birds you made when you were younger but looping the V’s down and out. I did that from outside in, getting smaller and smaller to look like roses.

I then wrote the phrase “Sisters are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly” with the green paint pen I used to write out our names. After that I filled empty space in with more roses!

When all the paint was nice and dry I added my bow to the paddle and then it was finished!

This was the final product:

I was extremely happy with how everything turned out and Taylor loved everything I made for her (I posted all the crafts). I was really happy when she asked me if I stenciled the roses on too(:

This has been the long process of my sorority new member period and crafts and I would like to say thank you to those have been following me through this process! I hope y’all have enjoyed the Big and Little crafts!