I have a love/hate relationship with autocorrect.
I love it because I need a friend in the spelling and grammar department.
But sometimes?
It has a mind of its own.
It changes peony to penny and chair to charge and table to tablet and flower to flowing and mail to e-mail.
Like when I wanted to post about this project. I’m all excited and typing and my fingers are soaring across the keyboard and then? I mistype sign just a little bit and SIGNAL shows up.
STOP IT AUTOCORRECT.
Please let my peonies and chairs and signs and words BE WHAT I WANT THEM TO BE.
This is kind of a no-mess up fall mantel craft.
Check the perfect at the door.
I almost wrote this post with all my autocorrects left in, but I was worried it wouldn’t make sense.
So if you have a mantel and you have thirty minutes and you want to make this SIGN instead of a SIGNAL….
….this is the post for you.
Start with a piece of wood.
DO NOT OVERTHINK THIS.
Look around your house for a random piece of wood. You might have some left over from a project or an extra piece of molding or a piece that fell off the hutch in the living room.
It doesn’t need to be perfect or un-dinged or un-scratched.
As long as you can paint on it, it’s perfect.
Print out a font from your computer.
Here are a few of my favorite fonts that make perfect signs.
Mellanie.
Angely.
Catherine.
And the font I used for this post—Melika Script.
I purchased most of these in a bundle from Creative Market, but you can find tons of amazing fonts online for free.
Place a piece of white carbon paper under your words and trace hard with a pencil.
You can use black carbon paper, too.
You want to make sure you really press down with your pencil to make sure the word transfers.
Then?
Just paint it with your brush.
I used Burnt Sienna on this post because it looked extra fall, but a pretty gray or navy or orange might look pretty too.
Don’t overthink it.
The less you stress over your sign—the prettier the sign.
It’s true. Really. It’s like the project can sense your positive attitude and work harder to make itself cute.
Here’s the finished sign.
30 minutes from start to finish. Add a few pumpkins and some book page leaves for instant pretty.
My sign is not perfect.
Not even close.
Maybe that’s why my mantel loves it so much. 🙂
PS Be careful if you shop for your wood by the sign of the road. This may or may not have happened to me.
PPS If you have ever auto-corrected yourself into something that made you laugh—please share. 🙂
You made a mistake on the last three lines you typed. Is it auto-correct or not? {smile}
I love this cute little sign. Autocorrect can be annoying, to say the least. Like when I know for certain"fallish" is a word and it keeps telling me no! Happy Fall!
Love this easy peasy idea...with or without mistakes/auto correct/etc. Too cute.
I'm right there with you Karianne. Sometimes auto correct is so frustrating! When I text and it puts in the wrong words I let out a big sigh and my husband says "oh boy, auto correct must be on the job". : ) Have a good day. How are things going with Thistlewood Farms? Keep us posted.
It happened just now when I replied back.......it said worship instead of wrong! Great project by the way. xoxoxox
Talk to text is my nemesis! I tried to tell my husband that I had made a salad before I left the house and the text sent was "I have left you kinky sex monkeys". Say WHAT??? I try NOT to talk to text anymore. Unless I'm having a bad day and need a laugh.
That auto correct is the most frustrating thing ever! However, I have tears running down my face from the "kinky sex monkeys"...I am just dying here! Thank you...
I'm with you Lenore. That is so funny!! oh my, hahaha!
Thanks for the laugh..ooooooooo my. Would have loved to see your husbands face when he read this one., Still laughing. Jean McGee
Love the sign! Autocorrect can drive you nuts! I always watch carefully especially when I am using my phone...I can't tell you the amount of times it has changed "thrifting" into "thrusting"...BIG difference. And translating can be really bad, too. For example...I love Vibeke Design, She is a sweet friend...but commenting that I love the color of her stool...well...use your imagination. Thank goodness for the delete button. I always proofread everything!
I also love Vibeke Design but I would never dream of commenting on her site--the translation button has come up with some doozies with its English translation and who knows what it would do with my comments? Ha!
Wait, what? Where's the whole mantel? I need to see the whole mantel! :) Are you unpacked yet? If not, then I guess that can be your excuse. Big hugs.
Once when I moved to a new house I informed a friend via email that I wasn't going to like my new neighbor. "His job is pooping in my yard." (His dog is pooping in my yard.) I didn't catch it until she replied "How in the world did he get a job like that!?"
Oh the joys of autocorrect! I texted my daughter's boyfriend an encouragement, at the time, or so I thought. It ended up having a curse word in it!!!! They got married this last spring.😊 It makes for a good family joke. Fun and fast sign!
Hi, I have a doozy, haha - A friend texted me after I left a group of friends that she didn't get to say good bye and give me a hug, so I texted her back and said to save her hug for Monday, as we were going to see each other again. This is what auto-correct did: "Shave your head for Monday night, :) " Lol, I screenshot the text. It still makes me laugh out loud when I read it. oh lord!
If you haven't seen the movie "Mom's night out" please do! (Those that have seen it will understand). And by the way you made me smile today - thanks friend!! 😊
Oh no don't even get me started on auto correct...oh my word...haha....anyhow, I love your sign, so cute for all occasions I think.... I must tell you I am reading your book and to say I am obsessed is an understatement, Kerianne it's is amazing, not close to but REALLY....wow, I cried and laughed and your open honesty has just overwhelmed me, I kinda dread coming to the end...so glad I treated myself.....your a very special person.....xxx
Loved your comments about auto correct......it is definitely a love hate relationship! Here's a funny, that wasn't done by me, but it was about me! A friend of mine from my Bible Study group was emailing me back and doing it from her iphone where she had the benefit (??) of auto correct. She addressed the email to me, but when she typed in Lanita, it auto-corrected to "Lakota" and she didn't realize it until she'd already hit send!! Needless to say, we have had (and are still having!) so many laughs over that crazy auto correct..... Sometimes now, just for fun, she will send me a text or an email and address it to "Lakota" or I will respond and sign off as "Lakota"! :)
As much as I hate auto correct......I have to say it's good for a laugh! I love all the comments! And the sign is great, too!
Love your sign, mixed in with cutting boards! So clever!! xoxoxo
Love the sign and the mantel. I too have a love/hate relationship with it. On the one hand, it gave us my oldest son's nickname. His real name is Hayden but the early autocorrect would make it Gazedo. So that has been his nickname for years. We stopped correcting it and would just go with, "Can you pick Gazedo up?" and "Gazedo forgot his lunch, can you drop it off?" Now...the hate part. The autocorrect for my son Luke's name sometimes comes up as "weed". Not nearly as cute as Gazedo. N
Nancy, I forgot until I was reading your comment but the old autocorrect used to change my son Riley to toilet!!
My twin sister was trying to tell me they were selling their Toyota and auto correct changed it to toilet. It was quite funny. I couldn't figure out why in the world they would sell a toilet. Lol. We laughed so hard. Still makes me snicker. But it can be so annoying! I try to check my message before hitting send but alas, stuff slips through. 😉 Cecilia
The funniest auto-correct for me is when my son sent me a photo of him prepping an outdoor BBQ and I meant to ask, "Whatcha making?" Auto-correct decided I meant, "What Jamaican?" Love the sign, by the way!
What fun with the auto-correct this morning!! I have enjoyed everyone's comments and shares. I know I must have something funny that has happened to me but I can't remember it at this time but I have enjoyed yours. I do love the sign!!! Have a wonderful day!
What a lovely, simple project! Its wonderful how little details can have such a big impact. Thanks for sharing this post, and good luck with your dealings with autocorrect! It is a fickle friend indeed!
Lovely ideas. Thanks for sharing at the Inspiration Spotlight party. Pinned & shared
Most of the time autocorrect helps me since my typing is less than stellar. It's just a few times where I've hit enter before checking that I've had to quickly delete the weird typed 'corrected' message...lol. Love the sign and paper leaves! So simple and yet so pretty!
I get the whole auto correct mind of its own thing. I thought it was supposed to learn your mist ( ok keeps changing most to mist) used words and bring them up. I sell vintage China not the country, which it keeps correcting to,.. but china, which I have to do too many times, erase and retype to get the correct word. I use this word often in my Instagram posts, you'd think it would learn. I don't want to be flagged by someone watching what we post as using China too much. Good thing I don't sell russia ( which it did not correct )
Auto correct is always finding ways to embarrass me. I once texted my neighbor, whose husband had built a new deck onto the back of their house, that I thought her husband had the biggest deck in our neighborhood. auto correct changed the e in deck to an i ! I did not catch the mistake and I received a rather rude text back from my neighbor.