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One More Place To Make Lists

February 11, 2009 by dailygnome 4 Comments

This morning I spotted this photo on this blog and thought to myself: 

I have a wall like that in my kitchen. 
There’s a can of chalkboard paint somewhere in this house. 
I could use a change today. 

I put Hadley down for her nap and during one episode of Think Out Loud a little corner of our kitchen went from this:
to this:

Now we have a place to write our weekly meal plans, to do lists, and Carson has a big ol’ canvas outside his room for chalk creations. 

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Comments

  1. Pink Dogwood says

    February 11, 2009 at 11:15 pm

    Amy, I love this!!

    Reply
  2. katalin says

    February 12, 2009 at 12:34 am

    awesome!

    Reply
  3. Jeannie says

    February 12, 2009 at 9:01 pm

    Love this!!! I have wanted to do this myself but have orange peel walls which I heard don’t work well with the chalkboard paint. 🙁

    Reply
  4. mary says

    February 16, 2009 at 4:21 pm

    Hey! It looks GREAT! Have you tried writing on it yet? I’m actually afraid to…yikes.

    Reply

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