ten projects in twenty days: mini chalkboard

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Project Five :: Day Nine

I am love love loving chalkboards these days.

For this project, I started with a $1 frame from Goodwill.  I did not sand, but did wipe it off with a damp cloth before getting started.  Also, I didn't prime - which turned out to be a happy mistake.

I used Krylon's Catalina Mist (this is the same color I used on my lamp makeover HERE).

I think it's a little more green in real life.

So...we all know that with spray paint you're supposed to do several light layers rather than one thick layer, right?  I was carefully painting this frame layer by layer, nice and thin.  Then I got to about coat 4 or 5 and the whole thing just puckered up.  Dun dun dun dunnnnnn......

So I got out my handy palm-sander (have I mentioned how much I LOVE my palm sander?) and got to work thinking that I would sand it down and start over again.  And here's what it looked like:

Like I said...happy mistake.  I could not have gotten this awesome weathered, chippy look if I tried.  So...I gave it a little bit of brown glaze (brush on regular old brown craft paint and wipe off immediately with a paper towel) and left it alone. 

I am madly in love with this little chalkboard!

Sweet huh?

So what crafty loveliness have you created lately?

UPDATE:  I made the chalkboard from 1/4'' MDF.  I used the glass from the frame as a size guide, and sprayed it with chalkboard paint.  The directions on the can recommend that you allow the paint to cure for 24 hours.  I highly highly highly recommend 48 hours or more.  I didn't wait long enough on my big chalkboard (here) and if you look at it from the side you can still see "joy to the world" etched into the chalkboard.

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