Have you discovered Pinterest? It’s a wonderful place on the internet that keeps all your fabulous ideas and thoughts organized on cyber-bulletin boards. You “pin” web pages to one of your boards based on the category to help you find it later when you want it. I have boards for entertaining, beautiful spaces, chalkboard vinyl…Plus about 40 other things. You can have unlimited public boards, plus three secret boards that nobody can see but you. At least last time I checked that’s what they had.
It can be a time sink if you let it. Or the answer to your next baby shower or dinner party.
A friend sent me a pin the other day in an email. I was stunned. Amazed. And dreamed about it, awake and asleep, until I decided to DO something about it.
I painted my crockpot.
With chalkboard paint.
Oh, yes I did!
And now I can take food to events without having to worry about a label falling off or getting lost. People can know right away what is inside and if it meets their dietary needs.
Isn’t it fun?
It was pretty easy, although I’m sure it can be complicated quite nicely if you like it that way.
I’m one of those gotta-get-it-done-NOW kind of people. So, I fly through projects. I taped the parts I didn’t want to paint, roughed up the texture of the shiny paint a bit, and put two coats of chalkboard paint on it. Waited 24 painful hours before I used the chalkboard markers on it, as suggested on the paint can. And there you go!
What do you think? I wish the part around the knob was a little bit more exact. I thought I taped that part well, but a little bit of paint seeped through. And the circle wasn’t exact. Hard with that knob on there, and working with tape that is straight. I’m sure there is a better way.
But, I wanted to share my little project with you.
Now, I can’t wait for the church’s next potluck!
