Woohoo Beth is having a party and you KNOW I can’t resist a good themed party– or a chalkboard for that matter!

I thought I’d compile all my chalkboard related yumminess into one post, sound good to you? Alright.. Here goes!

Here’s an oldie but goodie.. bad lighting and crappy photography.. Hey I was a newbie alright? Okay, newbie-ish.. but I’ve learned. My PB inspired chalkboard..

Oh here’s another PB knock off involving the chalkboard paint. Gotta love it.

My absolute FAVORITE chalkboard paint project? Chalkboard tags for the entryway! LOVE-THEM.

So there you have it! My best chalkboard related things. How many times did I say chalkboard in this post,  I feel like it was one too many. Sorry about that. Make sure you bounce back to Beth’s and check out everyone elses projects!

This can’t be described as anything except luck.

Pure luck.

Who throws this out to the curb? Who does that? I’ll feel really bad if they just put it out to clean it and it wasn’t for free.

Kidding.

I’m sure it wasn’t.

At least I hope it wasn’t.

Colors? Black? Colored cushion? Or bright color with a white cushion. Give me ideas! I’m in heaven! A project just fell into my lap! Happy Day!

Oh yeah, and don’t hate on my dead grass there. That’s the dogs…area.. grass doesn’t grow in that corner. Don’t talk about me behind my back because I have straw grass, with a little bit of weeds.

Okay, I’ll admit it. I had no idea what to title this post so front door frenzy won. However, this post isn’t even about the front door. It’s the other door in the house, the back door. But I’ll be honest and say I was a little scared titling my post Back Door Frenzy.. someone might be quite confused if they’re googling said item and not looking for a wreath for their door.

I’ll admit another thing, this isn’t a post about a wreath either. It’s a monogram covered in jute and hung by some scrap fabric. If I was good at my blogger duties I would have taken pictures of everything being put together but I didn’t. So enjoy some photos where I tried to stay out of the picture and ended up ruining all of them. Be prepared to cock your head to the side– hey I never said I was a photographer.

This is when I gave up and just went for it. Enjoy my pajamas that I proudly wear at 6:00 in the afternoon. evening.

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Blah. Boring right? I think so too. With our new designated spot for outerwear (Michigan -10 below thick coats.) I had a big spot of wall to fill. I knew right away I wanted something like Sarah’s chalkboard. But, I have quite a few chalkboards in my house. How many is too much? I don’t know if we’ll ever find out, but I wanted something different. I’ve been in love with this for a long time. Swooon. See, it’s love. Now, to mix the two– time to let them make a love child. A thick framed, cork board love child. It can’t be that hard right? No, it isn’t. Let me show you how.

Some thick and lover-ly trim from Home Depot/and or Lowes and some roll on cork, and a 2×4 piece of 1/4 plywood. Yep that’s it. I screwed the trim and plywood into the wall instead of using my old stand by liquid nails. Just because I figured if Mr. P thought I was crazy and demanded I take it down, it wouldn’t ruin the flimsy plaster walls as much as 8 holes would.

The cork? I hot glued it (lots of it!). Why do you ask? Because then it will be easy as pie to peel off (I think?)if I do have to take this off the wall for any reason at all. Good news is, Mr. P enjoys it as much as I do and said I can keep it up. So countersink those screws and use the wood filler to fill those holes!

Then I painted it with some black latex paint I had from my hallway closet project from you know where. I could have left it white but then I thought the entry way would be “Too white” if you know what I mean, plus the frame matches the keys, and the chalkboard tags. I plan to sand a bit to age it make it less..”shiny new”, and it’ll be done.

I love it, adore it, it makes me un-believably happy more happy when the finish is done (i.e the sides are painted. Shoot where is my painters tape!?), but I was too excited NOT to post. Actually it is believable that a huge skinny cork board could make you so happy right? Yes! I find myself peeking from the kitchen about a hundred times during the day and smiling at it. Wait till you see what is going on it. Bwahahaha. You’ll have to wait till later for that!

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