Happy tax day! I hope you all got everything in on time. We did well this year, the Hubster and I finished up ten days before! Last year I was in the long line at the post office getting the 4/15 date stamp on my envelopes.
Umm .. I digressed early this time. Back to my chalkboard. 
I had this black, framed, plastic thingy that my sister and I had since our college days. It was used as a white board, except you had to have it over something light to see the writing. It was cool, but after the years, the markers don’t erase as well as they used to. It had been hanging around on the kitchen floor. Yea, I know what you are thinking. I have no explanation for it. 
I promise, my house is not as messy as it sounds .. okay just a little messy. Hehe
Annywhoo.. a few weeks ago, I was cleaning up and I finally got fed up with it hanging around the kitchen floor and I came up with an idea of changing it up to a chalkboard. I already had the paint from one of my incomplete/failed DIY wedding projects last year. So that’s what I did!
The front and back of the chalkboard.
Of course, my impatience got the worst of me as I didn’t bother to spray primer on before hand. But I jorified (jorified: my word for when I come up with a weird way of fixing something ) the process. I painted one thin coat and used a blow dryer to dry it as a base coat. Then with each coat I kept using the blow dryer to dry it until I got a nice smooth surface. It worked out well; except I didn’t get in the cracks so I have to go back.
See that slit of white/cream color, that’s the crack that I missed.
It looked nice but it needed something more, like designs around the frame. I got this nice template of floral border designs, sorry I don’t have the link for it but you can google “floral border designs”. I couldn’t figure out a way to trace on to the frame so I free handed, while looking at it.
Isn’t the design pretty? I free handed with a pencil first.
Then painted using the paint you get at the craft store.
Here it is half way done, with just the vines painted in.
I just used what I had on hand. I think it turned out pretty nice. 
I still need to gloss the frame so that it looks a bit different than the middle chalkboard.
I think it turned out quite nice!! Do you like it? I was thinking of selling it, anyone interested?
- ASH
