Cafe chalkboard

I have been going through a dry spell over here people!  My schedule for the past two weeks has been work,sleep,work,sleep. I agreed to work some twelve hour shifts(which totally kicked my butt!) and even worked some overtime. All I can say is (A.) I am glad the long hours are over with and (B.) I am glad Chris is back at work! Speaking of, guess where Chris will be working for the next few months... At SIU! He's so happy about getting this job because it's right here in town and he gets to sleep in since he doesn't have to be there until 7:45. Usually he has to get up at 4:30 or 5:00 so this is going to be a treat for him!


My sister,Jennifer, called me the other day and asked if I could make her some kind of chalkboard to hang on her refrigerator. So I started thinking about what I could use and I found these in my to do pile. I have a plan for them, but I thought three of them would look just as good as four.

So I painted it,sanded it,destressed it, and painted their initials on it.

I had trouble coming up with a board for the actual chalkboard, but I eventually used the back from a poster frame. I know this isn't what most of you would use, but I am impatient and this is all I had around the house.

Speaking of impatience...This is me trying to cut through this board with a steak knife!

It didn't work by the way....

I went to my sister's house tonight and we used her skill saw to cut the board. She was even nice enough to cut out three for me! We both felt like the frame needed something at the bottom so we printed out this scroll design and transferred it using a pencil and then I painted over it.

Jennifer is doing a french cafe theme in her kitchen so we decided to paint "cafe" at the bottom. Let me tell you I am not good at painting anything this small. The "cafe" is horrible, but it works for now.

To finish it off, my sister used her staple gun to hold the board in and I had a roll of magnet tape that I put on the back.

Janna