Update to Blogs Designed by Me & Monday Made It

This is going to be short and sweet because my lil' monkeys are slowly crawling out of bed :)  First of all, if I designed your blog, I am sorry about all the grey boxes.  I was hoping it was only my blog... but no!  It should be resolved on Thursday.  I'm hoping this will not happen again.  If it does, I may have to look in spending a little money... which I don't want to do.  We shall see.  Again, I'm so sorry!

Okay, now for my Made It with Tara.

WARNING:::  if this is jumbled and doesn't make sense.. I'm sorry.  My three-year-old son is wanting to interrupt my morning blogging/coffee time by asking a million questions. :)

I have a chalkboard that I made.  It's ugly... and it was on my cabinet door in my classroom.  I wanted something new to go with my new classroom and I wanted something with a fancy frame I could paint.   You see... I am wanting to do a quote a week for my students.  

So, while I was in Hobby Lobby the other day, I went in the clearance section and saw this picture.  Now, this picture is regular priced at $79.99.  I got it for $7.99... it was 90% off!  I thought... I could get the hubs to cut a scrap piece of wood, paint it with chalkboard paint, and place it in the frame.

Then, I found some liquid chalk markers while I was working on getting the picture taken apart.  That's when this idea popped in my little head.  I could use markers instead of chalk... no mess!  How could I do this?  By now, my little gears were spinning.  I decided to use the glass in the frame (only I ended up breaking the glass and had to got to Lowe's to get a replacement... but we won't talk about that) spray paint the back of it black, and use the non-spray painted side to write on.  I then decorated the frame with a nice turquoise color to match my classroom.

Here's my end result.  You would understand just how special that little note is I wrote on it if you knew what I went through with that glass... I felt as if I was on Final Destination and no matter what I did, the glass was destined to break.  But, the second piece didn't... so yay!!!

Here it is on my cabinet....

I just LOVE how it turned out.  Now, if it will just stay on the cabinet and not fall!!  lol