During the drive to Arkansas to pick up my son last week, while my older son was driving, I was busy working on another Christmas project. I hope you aren’t sick of seeing them, because I just can’t seem to stop working on them. I wanted to make another canvas project, like the family photo I did on canvas a few months ago, but with a chalkboard Christmas image instead. To design the printable, I used my chalkboard background (found {Read More}
Saying Grace … 4 Chalkboard Art Mealtime Prayer Printables
December 3, 2014 by 2 Comments
I think our family must be going out to eat too often, because lately I keep finding inspiration for projects from paper placemats while dining out. We went out for breakfast on the day my middle son had to return to college, after Thanksgiving break. On the table were paper placemats, that had the mealtime prayers of 4 different faiths on them – you don’t see that very often, do you?
Repurposed Antique Cabinet Door into Chalkboard
December 16, 2013 by 4 Comments
We got about 5-6″ of snow Friday night and Saturday morning, so it looks like a winter wonderland outside my house. The roads are all clear now, but being snowed in all day Saturday had its benefits – one of which was being able to stay home and get a lot of work done. I started sewing new Christmas stockings for my family, and started working on a book page wreath and a chalkboard that some customers ordered. I created a {Read More}
Sidewalk Chalkboard from Wooden Folding Chairs
July 11, 2013 by 35 Comments
How to turn a wooden folding chair into a standing chalkboard. Today, I want to show you one of my favorite kinds of projects. I seek out broken things at yard sales, thrift stores, and auctions, because I get a real kick out of taking something broken and turning it into something usable again. You may recall that last fall I bought 35+ antique wooden folding chairs at an auction. I sold all of them that were still in good {Read More}
Chalkboard Windows & Frames
March 30, 2013 by 13 Comments
After creating signs on several of my antique windows, I switched gears this week and turned some that had broken panes into chalkboards. I bought a big sheet of luan at Lowes (in the plywood section of the store) and had them cut pieces to the sizes I needed for several windows (less than $14 for the sheet, which is enough to do 3-4 windows, with lots of smaller pieces to use on other projects). I’m a horrible chalkboard artist, {Read More}
Antique Cabinet Door Chalkboard
March 1, 2013 by 27 Comments
When I brought home my hoard of antique windows recently, and did some dumpster diving in the salvage that was torn out of a very old building, I found a lovely old cabinet door buried in the dumpster. The inset panel made it perfect for converting into a chalkboard, so I did a dry-brushed coat of white paint over the frame and added a drawer pull to the bottom to hold the chalk. I was sorta hoping it wouldn’t sell, {Read More}
Repurposed Headboard Chalkboard
October 5, 2012 by 32 Comments
I bought 2 sets of bed headboards and foot boards about 6 months ago, all for $1 at an auction. I wasn’t sure what I’d do with them, but I loved the shape of the headboards, and the posts were pretty cool too, so I knew I’d eventually do something with them. As usual, in the middle of the night I decided one of them had to become a chalkboard. No, it couldn’t wait until morning…it had to be done at 3:30 am. My {Read More}
