I am such a messy messy person!!

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
I love making things i actually use and get to play with!

So this week i made...........DRUMROOLLLLLL............Chalkboards yeahhhhhhhhh!

So i made chalkboard paint, and painted some old wood my daddio brought me.
and i was so amazed they work, and they wipe chalk off with a damp cloth :)
so happy! so lets get started shall we?

Chalkboards at home

So, you'll need:

• Black paint (or any colour your chalkboard will be)
• Course tiling grout
• Paintbrush
• Mixing pot & mixing stick
• Something to paint onto (wood, wall, etc..)

So first things first, make sure you prep your area, a few sheets of newspaper will do the trick. You can do it outside if it's easier but it was super windy and raining slightly so i had to make do with the breakfast bar.

Now I'm angry because picmonkey isn't playing my game, and isn't letting me edit my pictures. GRR.

and now it has:

Also i was watching celebrity juice so help pass the painting time :)

So, you can prepare your wood, sand it down if you need to, and prime it. I was going for a rustic look so i just painted it straight onto it, but it depends what you're doing!

 Next you want to mix equal amounts of grout and paint. Really i put more grout in after it was mixed, just because it looked like it needed some more. I think it's down to how your mixture looks when it's all mixed through.

And this is what it looked like after i mixed it. Now because the grout was white and the paint is black its going to go grey, not black. But i promise it dries darker.

Now you want to grab your paintbrush and get painting. As mine was a thick mixture you could see where it had been painted on, but again this adds to the rustic look i was going for.

This is the other piece i was doing! i didn't even clean it i just painted straight onto it. Again, you can prepare it if you like.

 Now after they are painted with one coat, you want go do another coat on them and let them completely dry before you use them. I waited about 2 days just to make sure they were fully dry.
This is what they ended up looking like!

I don't think they're fully dry in the picture but they certainly look like chalkboards to me!

Now because I'm brilliant i don't have picture of them with stuff on, but i do have a picture of the stall i used them on this week!

My pretty stall!! :)

I'm making bath fizzes next week so I might blog about that next!!

So it's now time to end, and i have to find a funny picture....but what will it be this week...

LETS SEE!

hahaha, first picture i found. 

i blood loved it!!

Byes!

Oh shizz! Help!

I'm majorly in very deep doo doo.  Also, Hello blogworld :)
Because i can't time manage at all lately. and there isn't enough time in the day :(

So I'm doing a craft stall at a spring fayre this weekend.
Everything I've made isn't enough, and i need to make more. There's only so much soap that can be made in a day!

Yes i make lots of soap and its cool :) If you don't make soap you aren't cool!

I've done a to-do list, bearing in mind this stall is in 3 days, and it currently has 10 things on it which no doubt more will be added to also. So I'm going to say 15 things :(

AND I'M STUPIDLY POORLY.

But i will show you what i made last week, and my nearly finished bedroom!
It's painted all pretty and pastel. Now i just need to find my camera....
Maybe i should do more DIY stuff, it's fun :)

Number one today is the coaster i made, really i was just messing about and hoping i could make one, for future reference...
and here it is, basic but doable for everyone!

 Look it's a tile!

 Look! The reverse of a tile!

Now, you need to cut a piece of material the same size of the tile, this is going to be glued to the bottom. I used a hot glue gun, and run it around the edges to create a lip for the coaster to sit on.

 So this is the underside of it all, ready to go and be used. I forgot to paint up the edges of the tile, so it looks really untidy! i forget everything i do!

And there we are! a finished coaster!
At least we know how easy it is to make one now :)
and in the future i will make pretty pretty ones!!






Next on my list! Is my very pretty bedrooooom!

So this is my bedroom before:

 Plain, beige, boring and ready to be painted pretty!!

And this is what i made it into, it doesn't look much but it sure is pretty now it's all dry!

And you wanna see the best things?!?!?!?!

So. bloody. pretty!!

Next thing, and final thing for today!
ARTWORK!
i love painting, it's no secret at all!
So when i could do my painting i was a very happy panda.
(yes i refer to myself as a panda)

 So the first thing was to paint them all the base colour, which is a gorgeous pale blue! i did three coats until it was thick enough so you couldn't see under it!

Next was to paint my images on them, which was lots of fun, in my other colour, purple.
And this is how they looked!!





So pretty :)



And here they are individually!

After they dried they were perfect!
I just need to get them onto my wall...
That's my next project!
Now i need some shelves, my mirror up, and a magical fairy to do everything for me!!

That's all for now folks!
Lets end with a funnies shall we?



DO YOU KNOW THE MUFFIN MAN??

Byes!