technology....you anger me.

so i had this really nice, LONG post about how i am in LOVE with chalkboard paint.....pictures & all. hit the save button. went to the kitchen to get coffee. came back. it was GONE. totally GONE. except for ONE picture. seriously!? my laptop was closed. my phone was with me. i have no idea what happened! gah. so frustrating!

so here's the quick version........

back in october i got the craft bug. big time. i wanted to create a chalkboard wall somewhere in our house. i thought about putting it upstairs on our 1/2 wall. but that would have required building a frame & mounting the frame, along with a huge piece of ply-board, on the wall. honestly, i didn't want to do all that work. i couldn't just paint a wall because we have textured walls. and i really don't think they'd be good for writing on with chalk. so, after looking at pinterest, i decided to do ava's closet door. she went to florida for a long weekend with my parents, so that was the perfect time to get it done. the hubs took the door off the hinges & i went to work. i used a can of magnetic paint first. and then applied 2 or 3 coats of chalkboard paint. and let me just say.....i LOVE it!! and so does ava! it's so fun to decorate it for the holiday's & leave her little notes! we even did her christmas countdown on her door! 

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well. i only used maybe 1/2 of the can of paint. and in maybe december or january, i got the bug to paint something else with the chalkboard paint! ava has a white table that my parents got her for christmas a few years ago. because it was white, it was starting to look dingy & had some nice crayon/marker spots that i couldn't get off for the life of me! so....i pulled out the can of paint & covered the top of the table! i left a little bit of a white boarder around it just because i didn't want it to look too dark. both ava & grayson like sitting at the table to draw! 

painting the table hardly used up any paint.....and again....this week.....i got the bug to paint something for my kitchen. i was thinking about doing a wooden sign to hang up on the pantry door for our weekly menu & any miscellaneous grocery items we would need. however, i had the hardest time finding exactly what i was looking for. so. i found a basket that we used for grayson's toys (when there were just a few!) that was the perfect size & shape that i was wanting. it was kind of an oblong oval. so i traced it directly onto the pantry door. painted it. and hated it. it looked like an egg. so then i made it into a rectangle. and i'm still not happy. i'm HOPING to find a thin frame to mount around it to give it some texture....or maybe even a vinyl wall sticker to go around it. it just looks so BLAH right now.

so there's my door. it just looks so plain. fingers crossed for a successful trip to hobby lobby tomorrow with the photographer friend!!!