The Evil Goodness of Pinterest...

I've always been interested in the website Pinterest....I've heard so many people talk about it and this and that, and that it was an invite only site or something, so I never really checked it out.  Then my friend Deanna invited me....(the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem)....I'M FREAKING ADDICTED!!!!  :-p  This site has so many awesome ideas, from easy couple hour projects, to crazy intense quilt designs I'll never have the patience to do, to travel, to house of your dreams, to anything you can imagine.  I'm mostly on there for food and craft project ideas.  Occassinally I'll come across some other stuff I put up, but seriously...FOOD AND CRAFTS!! :-D

Here is one that is REALLY easy.  Anyone can do it.  Just make sure you do it outside so you don't get high off the fumes...It's frosting glass items you already have.  I don't know about you, but I have so many vases around my house that no longer hold flowers, that need something else to be done with them!  So last week Deanna and I got together and frosted some of our stuff.  You can find this in the spray paint aisle at Lowe's.  We used rubber bands and painters tape to create the designs, and put some paper towels inside with painters tape to keep the inside from being frosted too. Before and after!

I would also suggest a top coat, maybe matte finish??  We didn't use a top coat and unfortunately some of our frost is coming off, and doing a top coat after you remove the tape or rubber bands just ruins the effect.  We haven't perfected a finish yet to keep it from scratching, so if you try this and are successful, let me know what you did! :-)

Pinterest seriously has me wanting to make more and more stuff (bad idea, I already have so much stuff to make! lol).  This week I wanted another quick project that I could make in a day, so I decided to make custom dry-erase boards.  One for a weekly menu, and one for other notes.  We already had this in my house, but one was a huge chalkboard that I thought took up too much room and a whiteboard/pegboard combo in the kitchen.  I wanted something a little more classy, and prettier.  So I made these.  Simple enough: get a couple picture frames with glass, some scrapbooking paper and stickers, tape, ruler and scissors and you got yourself a couple dry-erase boards!  You can pick whatever size frames you want, whatever colors you want, etc.  Someone had said they didn't think dry-erase markers showed up very well on theirs so they use the Vis-A-Vis wet-erase markers.  You can use whichever.  Just make sure the paper you use is light enough so that at least a black marker will show up! :-)

These pics aren't the greatest....I took them early evening and due to the front being glass, having the overhead light on, or using the flash on my phone just created a glare so you can't see the color scheme very well.  Trust me, they're a combination of tans and browns with a light blue.  I just love these!  They came out so well, and are very useful and tasteful instead of big and bulky.  I used an 18.5" x 8.5" for each.  Now I just have to buy one more frame to replace with saved wine corks to make a new chic pegboad! :-)