4x4 Wood Dice on my $0 budget

I was flipping through an older decorating magazine and I stumbled upon a picture of an beautiful office bookcase with a set of large dice used as bookends. I immediately knew these would look adorable in our home office against the dark bookcase and I knew I could make them for nothing!

I immediately ran outside and found the left over 4x4 cedar post we have used on many projects and worked up the nerve to use one of the most intimidating tools in my husbands collection...the sliding miter saw.

I measured 3.5 inches from the end to make a cube (since a 4x4 is actually 3.5 x 3.5) and with my husband's safety glasses not to securely on my face, I cut it! I could have run down the street yelling with pride...I did it! and it measured 3.5 inches. Then I cut a second one. It is amazing the feeling I got from using it!

Back to my dice. I painted them with an off white paint (had on hand) and not so patiently waited for them to dry. On a few of the sides you could still see the knots in the wood and I loved the look of it so I gave the two blocks a little distressing around the edges.

I cut small circles on vinyl with the Cricut to use as the dots on the dice. You can use a paper punch and Mod Podge the circles on if you don't have a cutter (like me :( ). I did use dice from a Yahtzee game to see which order the numbers are to be in.

Tah Dah. Nice and simple but oh so cute!

Remember April 1st is the $0 budget party. Please remember to stop by and share or just to take a look at what other have been up to.