DIY Chalkboard

So I have seen a bunch of pins on pinterest about making a chalkboard yourself and loved the idea.  So I went looking around my house and found an old mirror I wasn't using anymore and decided to make it into something I would use.

Here is the mirror before hand

The mirror really wan't anything special, but I thought it might do the job for what I wanted.

The first thing I did was place the mirror on trash bags to make sure I didn't get paint on anything else.  (in future I would probably use newspaper and not trash bags, but I didn't have newspaper at the time)  

I then painted the mirror with rust-oleum chalkboard paint from Home Depot.  I ended up putting 3 layers of paint on the chalkboard. 

The last step was to paint the boarder of the mirror since it was also black.  (I guess if your mirror had a different colored boarder you wouldn't necessarily have to paint the edge)  When painting the edge I just used white high gloss paint, I wanted it to be easy to clean that's why I chose the high gloss.  

Here is my finished project!  I'm very excited about using my new chalkboard.  It is currently ready for the 2012 Gator Football season!! Go Gators!!

Home Sweet Home

So I am realizing that I am not very good at consistently posting on here, but I'm going to work on that and I feel I have been really busy these last few weeks,  We finally closed on our house and have moved in!!!  I'm so excited I can't believe we finally have our house.

Me with our Keys!

We now have many projects for our house and I will hopefully document the changes we make and all of our projects on here.

Here is our Now I hope to start making some changes soon (at least the color to start. No more yellow kitchen for me!)  We did improve it a bit when we moved in we got new appliances! (since the ones in the house didn't work)

Our Kitchen (a huge disaster), but you can see our new fridge.
 I love it, its pretty and has lots of space inside!

Here is our new Stove before the gas company came to install it

And here it is all installed!

I am very excited to cook and bake on my new stove! I have never used a gas stove before, but I think its supposed to be really nice to cook with.

So hopefully soon I will have more posts with changes we have made or are at least are planning to make!