A Better Wall

I finally took down the crazy chalkboards and painted the entire wall in chalkboard paint.

Ahhhhh, that's better!

Now here are the crazies from before:

I thought this wall was great when I first repainted our kitchen.  The boards were picture frames from IKEA that I painted with this

  Now I'm having a "what was I thinking?!" moment.  I try to create a space in each room for the kids to be creative.  I envisioned them running up to the wall and drawing whenever they felt like it.  The bigger board was for our 2 year old (and for my to do lists) and the smaller one was for the baby.  It worked for a while.  Until the baby became a toddler, started taking her board off the wall and whacking her brother with it (she is small, but mighty).  Here is where our son drew his first "face"

So proud.  I don't know what the double chin is about, but whatever.

And then there were the chalk holders.  I bought little baskets from IKEA and drilled them into the wall.  I thought I was a genius.  Until my hilarious and very honest friend told me they kinda looked like urinals.  She was right.  NOT the image I want in my kitchen

So the whole thing had to go.  I had plenty of chalkboard paint leftover.  And I don't miss my old urinal wall one bit!

Thanks to my awesome husband, the switches and outlet match!  I thought I'd be OK with just changing out the switchplates, but that only lasted about a day.

I always ask for his help with anything electrical or plumbing related.  I just don't want to be responsible for flooding or burning down our house.

If you're curious about the raggy thing up top, The Nester calls it a ragamuffin garland.  I get so many of my home inspirations from her... she is amazing!  Here is a link for the tutorial if you'd like to make your own:  The Nester's Ragamuffin Garland.  I love having this thing for clipping up cards, kids' artwork, etc so my fridge isn't all cluttered.  Open spaces are a little hard to come by in our little townhouse and I try to keep the "stuff" around to a minimum.

This post is linked at the Craft-O-Maniac Link Party

See you again soon!

Blessings,

Jamie