Framed Chalkboard for the kitchen

I made this a while ago I just haven't posted it yet and I thought I'd share it on HGTV's rate my space community along with the other items I've shared but I wanted to post it on my blog first.

I had this picture sitting in the basement that I picked up for a $1.00 at a yardsale and i realized it was attached to a thin piece of wood and I thought I could turn it over and paint with chalkboard spray paint, I already had a can from the canisters. So I did two coats of the chalkboard spray paint and I painted the frame using the antique white from behr I already had then I distressed it and applied the antique glaze over it. After two days of letting it sit I rubbed chalk all over the board to cure it and then I put it up on the kitchen wall. I like to write down whats for dinner so the kids can't ask me a million times. When I went to Joann's fabric one day I found the tea cup and thought it would be perfect to hold the chalk. I think I paid $3.99 for it.

I just love chalkboard paint, do you?




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Chalkboard Canisters

I actually have been working on these for a while it was one of those small projects that took me forever because I am a busy mom, but I got them done, they didn't turn out completely the way I wanted them to but they do what I want them to do. I saw these ones at pier one imports

They weren't even that expensive I just wanted to do it myself because It would be more fun.

I bought these ones

but this is from amazon and they were cheaper at walmart like 6 bucks

I had a 50% of coupon for A.C Moores and bought the spray paint for around 3 bucks and already had paint and frog tape. I had a hard time looking for the etching cream but michaels arts and crafts had and its not cheap, but I had a coupon for there as well. 

here is the finished product

I wanted them to be different, I'm not sure why but I should of kept them all the same, oh well. You have to apply etching cream so the paint will stick to the jars, it gives it like a frosty look. I taped of rectangle shapes with the tape and applied the cream and you rinse it off quickly after. I messed up on that, you have to apply a lot! Then I used tape again and covered the jars with newspaper I just wrapped it around and used a lot of tape. Then I sprayed with the chalkboard paint and did about 3 coats because I'm not a good spray painter, I prefer hand painting I'm great at that. Then after a week or so I finally added detail. I did a simple boarder with white paint on one and a boarder with a design on another, a straight line with loops, not really what i was going for but oh well, and I did a stencil on the last. I finally accepted I'm not perfect and that I could always try again but I think I like how they all turned out looking different and messy. I enjoy looking at them everyday now. I'll post the chalkboard frame I made later. What do you think? Have you wanted to try a project and messed up on it and decided you liked it later?