Today we are preparing to go on a little trip down to North Carolina to visit my mom and I am super excited! I haven't seen my mom in like a year!!!! Too long!!! So I am busy getting things together. While I am packing I am waiting on a phone call from the Radiology dept so we can schedule an MRI for Gabe. The MRI is to see if he has Chiari Malformation and if he does he will have surgery to correct the problem. We have been dealing with Gabe's health issues since he was 4 months old and I am so ready for him to be normal and healthy!!! So I will be posting a quick little diy project I did a while back. I did this project back before this blog of course so again no before pic. I promise I will get better at this!! LOL! Anyway. I decided I wanted a little chalkboard for the kitchen so I could write down things we needed and little notes, and what not. I wanted to use stuff I had around the house so I didn't have to spend any money! Always a plus right?! I had an old frame, leftover spray paints, and leftover chalkboard paint from another project so I had everything I needed. I roughed up the frame with sandpaper and spray painted it with Valspars Mediterranean Sea then sprayed Ace Hardware Ivory gloss over that. Then I lightly roughed it up again so the blue would show through just a little. I then took the glass from the frame roughed it up with sandpaper and then sprayed it with 2 coats of chalkboard paint and let it dry. Then I took chalk and rubbed it all over the chalkboard surface and then wiped clean. Then It was ready!!
Turned out great for something that was FREE I think!! I promise I will get better at taking pics and explaining the whole process. I hope you enjoyed it. I don't know if I will be able post anything while I am on my little vacay so it might be a few days!!! Have a good 4th of July!!
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