Nautical Wall Art

I saw this idea on Pinterest a while back that I've been meaning to try.  My bedroom is a sort of ocean color scheme.  I used some old boards that used to belong to a swing set, and sanded them nearly down to the wood with a belt sander.  Then I just cut them to various lengths and attached them all to 2 other pieces of wood with screws.

Next, I just started doing some painting here and some painting there.  

I used a couple different blues, a teal color and white by the time I was all finished.  No method to the madness, I just brushed it on where I thought it looked alright.  I also drew out an anchor (kind of hard to see in the picture below since it was in pencil) I used some cups and nail polish around the house as templates for the circles, a ruler for the straight edges and free handed the rest...so it's not symmetrical at all.

This was the longest part, wood burning.  I used a shading tool and it took FOREVER!  

It didn't come out as dark as I wanted it but that's okay.

I used both chalk paint and regular paint but decided to try and make it a bit more rustic by adding some clear and dark wax over the top.

Next I tied some 3 ply jute around the boards.  I wrapped it around 5 times, since there are 5 boards....just seems fitting I guess.  I secured the jute in place with hot glue.  A girl is nowhere without a hot glue gun.  You can also see I added some picture hangers to the back as well.

And there you have it, all finished.  Sorry the lighting is a bit poor, looks darker than this in person.  Maybe in some natural day light the true colors will show through, we'll see when I get it hung on the wall.

Hung up in my room.