thrifty thursday - framed chalk board

 Yes, it's thrifty thursday again...

...on a Friday 

Cause that's how I roll. I'm a rebel!

Actually, it's been a busy week with the first week of school and talk of babies in this house. Oh yes, my kids (my daughter especially) has been talking/asking questions/inquiring about the specifics/making guesses as to just how many babies will end up in my tummy! hehe Just for the record - my doctor doesn't put more than 3 embryos in at once so you won't be seeing another Octomon on this blog!!

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Ok, back to today's thrifty project. I've been eying this gold frame at the thrift market for about a month. Finally, I just snatched it up (for 9 bucks). 

And actually, this was from my friend Lisa's booth who is right next to mine :)

The only thing that kept me from buying it up until now is that I didn't know what I wanted to do with it. Here's a tip on thrifting - if you see something you like and it's a good deal but you don't know what to do with it - buy it.

So first I painted it white. By the way, I highly recommend using primer first. It really helps the paint to adhere to the surface of what you're painting. 

I only had to do one coat of primer and one coat of paint. I didn't worry about covering up the mirror because I was going to paint over that with chalkboard paint anyway.

I had some of this chalkboard paint leftover from another project. It took 3 coats to make the chalkboard look good.

Now, had I thought ahead it probably would have been easier to do the chalkboard first, then cover that up and spray paint the outside.

That looked pretty...but a little plain. So I added a burlap & fabric flower...

That's better :)