Chalkboard Doors

My mom did this really cool thing to her pantry doors and I wanted to share - it's a fun creative idea that I am totally gonna steal! She taped off a border around each panel and then painted the inside with chalkboard paint. Simple and look how cute it is! She drew pictures and words of favorite places, I can also see using it for grocery lists, recipes, or just fun doodles. Good job mom :)

Wood Box with Chalkboard Message

with or without words it's so cute!

How cute is this easy little message box? It's pretty simple and not much skill involved.

You'll need a small unfinished wood box (with or without a clasp), stain or craft paint, chalkboard paint, and some kind of fake plant that fits in the base of the box.

Stain or paint the box whatever color you want. When it's dry paint 2 coats of chalkboard paint under the lid. Put the fake plant in the base, write a message in chalk on the lid or not - whatever you want. My inspiration idea for this came from a project idea I saw on Michaels.com, they used a bunch of little succulents in glass vases to fill the box but I saw this sheet of fake grass and liked it better. I put it in the bathroom with no chalk message but then saw the soap eggs I have on the counter and was inspired by them to write "nest" and place the eggs on the grass. Awwwww, I enjoy.

wearing gloves, I just wiped the stain on and off with paper towels

trim the plant to fit inside the base of the box

seeing the soap eggs made me think of a nest...

Junkin' with Candy (aka: Updating Old Stuff)

Candy and I went to a couple little antique/junk stores the other day and I found this plain wood holder with 3 clear jars. Normally I wouldn't have looked twice at this but for some reason I zoomed right it on it and knew just what I wanted to do to it - and it only cost $4 so if it didn't work I wasn't out much.

I lightly sanded the tops of the jars and the wood holder and wiped them clean. Using a 1" foam paintbrush I painted the jar tops with 2 coats of black chalkboard paint, and the wood holder with acrylic craft paint. First for some reason I painted it light lilac, that wasn't right so I covered it in cape cod blue...and that wasn't right either; finally I mixed together bright blue with a bit of yellow and orange and came up with this pretty dark teal color - ahhhhh, just right. My thought is to put this in the bathroom for cotton balls, qtips, etc. and write on the lids with chalk - but who knows, it's so cute I have lots of places I might use it!