Do you need a project to paint? Gift Emporium & CAFE’ has unfinished decorative birdhouses for sale. I just painted and waxed one in the color “Trading Post” and it painted beautifully in just one coat. This one is going to Gift Emporium & CAFE’ as part of the paint display, but if you would want to buy it already painted, I’m sure Michelle would sell it to you. : )
One more project tonight. I was on a roll today finding projects to paint and re-purposing things from around my house. This one only cost me $.99 and that was for the fall font.
Silhouette fall font – purchased from Silhouette store for $.99. Re-designed the letters on my Silhouette Portrait machine and printed on brown contact paper. Yes. I have one of those, too. I make a lot of projects with my Silhouette machine. I love that thing!
Ribbon – from a stash I kept when making bows for my grand daughter, which she basically never wore. She hasn’t ever liked bows. But I saved the left overs. Remember, I’m a teacher. We don’t discard.
Chalkboard – you will recognize it from the project I made earlier today. Just erased one message and added a new one.
Pumpkin with air plant – bought that from a Vintage Market earlier this month. The other side is a jack-o-lantern!
Flowers – Stole those out of an ancient arrangement I had. I may need to re-arrange that one a little to disguise the holes I left.
Kerr Canning Jar – bought for Young Living Sugar Scrub. Yes, I like essential oils, too! I gave this jar two coats of off white chalk-based paint I had left over from other projects. It was a little thick, so just added a bit of water and it was fine. Then I sanded the jar a bit with 220 sandpaper and added the fall letters. I tied a ribbon around it, stuck in the flowers, made a vignette with my chalkboard, pumpkin and jar— and there you have it! A beautiful fall arrangement. Don’t you agree?
I was looking for ideas for class projects using chalk-based paint that is so popular. I had to look no further than Pinterest and my basement. Pinterest sparked the idea that I could paint a cabinet door. I happened to have 6 of them in my basement. Don’t ask. I’m a former classroom teacher. I save things. You never know when you will need them. And, see….I needed a cabinet door. The upside down copper drawer pull was a left over from our kitchen remodel. I didn’t miscount. I realized later the way two drawers were installed, drawer pulls on either one wouldn’t allow the other drawer to open. Hmmm. Twenty-nine years in this house when we did the makeover last year and I never noticed this before. But, then, I never had drawer pulls on my kitchen drawers before. Click here for a peek at our kitchen makeover.
I will say that a chalkboard idea might be better using chalkboard paint rather than chalk-based paint, but I didn’t have that so I thought I’d give my Missouri Limestone Paint a try. It worked just fine, thank you! And, with grandkids, I just happened to have a fat piece of chalk.
So, with no expense, and using left over Missouri Limestone Paint in the colors of “Homemade Ice Cream” and “Something Blue”, 
I have a nifty little chalkboard sign for a kitchen or entryway or wherever you’d like to put it, and to show my “students” when I teach my classes.
Chalk-based paint is definitely not just for furniture. See my Chalk Paint Project Pinterest Board for more class project ideas I’ve been collecting. Of course, I added this great idea – can’t lose it! I can’t wait to make some more example pieces!
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