You know you are a Minnesotan when it -10° outside, but it’s sunny and there’s no wind, and when you walk outside you say to your husband, ‘it’s not too bad out here’.  True story.

But we’ve definitely been in the deep freeze here lately, which means that it’s the perfect weather for staying indoors and painting small stuff like these cutting boards that I purchased at my local Michael’s store.

I thought that perhaps I could take some of my ideas used on full size cutting boards, like this one for example …

and shrink them down to miniature size.

So after sanding them to remove those rough edges, I painted each one in a different paint color from Dixie Belle.

The colors, from lightest to darkest (left to right), are Ecru, Putty and Truffle.

Then I used my roll of skinny tape to tape off some grain sack stripes on two of the boards.

This tape is only .23 inches wide making it perfect for working on miniatures.  I purchased it at my local Menard’s store, but you can probably also find it online.

  I painted the stripes using a small brush and contrasting paint colors.

Once dry, I sanded the boards again to give them some age, and then added some knob transfers from re.design with prima.

The round cutting board has a rooster from their Farmhouse Delights set (now discontinued, but you can sometimes still find it online).

The transfer on the square board is also from that same set.

The rectangular board was a bit too narrow for most of the knob transfers, so I just trimmed out some wording from one to add to it.

I love how they turned out.

I ended up keeping all three of these for my larger dollhouse.  However, I did order more cutting boards to paint up, but more on that in my next post.

In the meantime, what do you think of these?  Leave a comment and let me know.