All done! I endured the 3 day wait, “conditioned” it as the can of paint instructed, and now I’m free to write and draw anything I can I dream up! Yay for chalkboard paint! (I actually wrote that on the chalkboard, hehe!)
February 26, 2008
February 22, 2008
UFOs
While my Mom-in-law was visiting last week, we got to talking about all our unfinished projects. I was telling her of my huge stack of unfinished sewing stuff and various other ideas I’d had and bought supplies for. She told me that on a sewing/quilting forum she’s on, they call these “UFOs” - Un-Finished Objects. She said she’d once had around 25 UFOs but made it a goal to get them done and had managed to wittle that number down to only a handful. I was inspired! Hence the starting on Kat’s room (which, btw, is still a UFO - hopefully we’ll find the time to get the paint done this weekend *fingers crossed*).
I remembered this week a project I bought supplies for several months ago - a magnetic chalkboard wall in the kitchen. Since buying all the supplies, we had a change in ideas for the wall I had in mind so I had packed the cans of paint and rollers away. Once I got to thinking about it again, though, I realized I had one other wall space that would work. It’s much smaller than the original wall space, but actually a lot more practical in location. So I won’t be able to do large fun drawings, but I will be able to write reminders to be seen as we’re leaving the house, or grocery lists or weekly menus.
I got to work on it yesterday just as soon as Kat went down for her afternoon nap and managed to finish it up right after the kids went to bed last night. Yay for knocking out a project in one day! I did 3 coats of magnetic paint and 2 coats of chalkboard paint. I didn’t take a before, but here’s my semi-after:
I say semi-after because we can’t write on it for 3 days. Right now it looks like nothing more than a black accent wall (and I’m not an accent wall kinda girl, so it’s bugging me). Once we can start writing on it, and it’s apparent what it’s purpose is, I think it’ll look better. (you’ll have to please excuse the condition of the baseboards and doors - dogs and kids will do that. one day I’ll get around to repainting them all) And just FYI - that door leads to the laundry/mud room, which then leads out to the garage, so we go through it every time we leave the house. To the left there are the doors to the pantry, and to the right (not pictured) is the fridge. So this really is a great location for a chalkboard - it will make it easy to jot down notes or To Buy lists.
So there you have it. The first UFO I can mark off my list! YAY!
