Twirl and Take a Bow LINK party and FEATURES!

 Good Morning my BEAUTIES!!

Guess what time it is?

Its time to Twirl and Take a Bow!~

I am Karin from ART IS BEAUTY

and I am lucky enough to get to pick the features for this weeks party.

I think you will all agree that this weeks Features

are once again FABULOUS!

 

Here are this weeks FEATURES for 

 TWIRL and TAKE a BOW!

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The first is this amazing and simple transformation

of an old outdated Headboard 

Check out

Sypsie Design 

to see how she did it!

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Next is this great Knock off from  TINY SIDEKICK

Knock off Crate and Barrel Curtains 

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 You know how much I LOVE a great REPURPOSE 

and ANGIE from

 Knick of Time Interiors

Did not disappoint with this great use of an old Sewing machine part.

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When I saw this I knew I had to pick it as a FOOD FEATURE.

We were in Ireland in August and seeing this great Dessert from

The Brunette Baker 

Brought me right back and made me miss it even more.

This is for sure going to be made in my house!

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 Well I hope you all enjoyed the features...but now its time to see

what you all have been up to this week!

Come on over and show us what you got!

Its time to 

TWIRL AND TAKE A BOW!

 Now on to this week's party!

Take a moment and visit all six hosts for the Twirl & Take a Bow Party...

House on the Way, Déjà Vue Designs, All Things Heart and Home, Designed by BH, Art is Beauty and A Few Miner Adjustments.

You'll be glad you did!

If you were featured, be sure to grab a button from my sidebar!

 

Now let’s party…

Twirl & Take a Bow Party

*We would love for you to follow us! *You must link directly to your post. *In order to be featured, you must link back to a host blog using a link or the party button found on the sidebar. *Only home decor & design related crafts, DIY, how-to’s, decorating tips, etc. You get the idea! *Visit one other party link. Share the love and the inspiration! *No links to shops, Etsy or giveaways. *By linking up your post, you are giving House on the Way, Deja Vue Designs, All Things Heart and Home, Designed by BH, Art is Beauty and A Few Miner Adjustments permission to use a picture as a feature on their blog and other social media outlets. Each week we will also be featuring a few outstanding inspirations from the week before.

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Now let’s party…..

Twirl & Take a Bow Party

*We would love for you to follow us! *You must link directly to your post. *In order to be featured, you must link back to one of the host blogs using a link or my button found on their sidebar. *Only home decor & design related crafts, DIY, how-to’s, decorating tips, recipes, etc. You get the idea! *Visit one other party link. Share the love and the inspiration!*No links to shops, Etsy or giveaways. *By linking up your post, you are giving House on the Way, A Few Miner Adjustments, All Things Heart and Home, Deja Vue Designs, Designed by BH and Art is Beauty permission to use a picture as a feature on their blog and other social media outlets.

Each week we will also be featuring a few outstanding inspirations from the week before.

An InLinkz Link-up

Old door chalkboard Menu Board

I am loving Chalkboards right now. I think it goes back to my love of doodling on the chalkboard at school when I was a kid. The fun it was to draw whatever you wanted and wipe it away and start all over in a matter of seconds.. Well as you may remember I got to go to a great Estate Sale of a shop that was closing. Happened by chance to find out afterward that the shop was owned by a local artist named Corey Vanduinen . If you happen to stop by his facebook page, please let him know how talented he is. I couldn't believe when I got home and looked him up and realized this guy had installments in our national art competition that I check out every year; ARTPRIZE. Anywhoo, By the time I was able to get there, most of the items were sold. I did manage to get a few items as you can see from the back of my suburban! :) One of those items being this old door. I just loved the old patina of it. Years of love and wear made it too good to be thrown away.

So I thought, what a perfect door for a chalkboard. So I mixed up my homemade chalkboard paint recipe, which you can find HERE

and pulled up one of my favorite GRAPHICS FAIRY graphics and started by transferring part of the image onto my door.

Then I got out my black acrylic paint and painted it on, and Voila!!!! A cute little French Menu Chalkboard. I just love it!!

I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial, and I hope you have a BEAUTIFUL day.

$0 free cupboard door home made chalk boards

 

Good morning my BEAUTIES!!

I hope you are having a BEAUTIFUL labor day weekend. 

Hopefully I am, too...(I have this post scheduled since we are taking the kids on the train

for the first time to CHICAGO)

I thought I would show you some FREE chalkboards I made.

A few months back I answered a craigslist add for about 20 free cupboard doors.

 

I have made multiple projects with them but what they are really great for, are CHALKBOARDS.

I went to my shed and got 3 different size cupboard doors and also a bunch of scrap boards

that I had gotten from my neighbor. Hubby cut the boards for me, while I painted the backs of the doors with home made CHALK BOARD paint. You can see previous posts with the recipe HERE.

I then used some OOPS paint that I had in my paint pile..:)

Once everything was dry I screwed them to the doors from the back.

 

Once everything was dry and distressed I went into my CRAP....CRAFT room..and got out

a fun set of  letter stamps..

 

That my husband got for FREE...someone at his work was giving them away for FREE.....:)

SCORE...I took a little acrylic paint and added fun words to my chalkboards.

Now they are all set to help re-fill the booth for FALL..

I hope you all have a BEAUTIFUL day and a wonderful LABOR day!

Chalkboard Memo board

So here is a project that you are gonna have to use some of that good ole imagination to see the before, since I had taken a picture of it, but can no longer find it on my computer...:) I had gone to the thrift shop and gotten this golden oak memo shelf thingie???? and it was missing the middle. It was 3.99. I knew just what to do to it.

So I brought it home and from what you can't see in the pic, is I PAINTED the oak. Then I got a scrap piece of wood from my shed and mixed up some homemade chalkboard paint. You know the now famous bloggie recipe of 1 cup latex paint and one tablespoon un sanded grout. I had this really cool gray blue paint that I love and I thought that would look neat in the piece.

Once I gave the board 2 thick coats with sanding in between, I distressed the wood on the memo board.

I put it back together and I just love how cool it turned out.!!! Ready to go to the booth for someone else to enjoy.
I hope you all have a BEAUTIFUL day.
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