Vinyl Chalkboard decorating

I love chalk boards. I have been dreaming of painting my entire fridge with chalkboard paint for a long time. There's a show on the Disney channel called "Good Luck Charlie" that has a chalkboard fridge as well. When you have an old boring fridge you gotta do something to make it better. I got super excited when I saw this idea on Under the Sycamore, which meant I could put off the long process of painting the entire fridge but still have all the fun! I bought my chalkboard contact paper roll here. I looked all over town for chalk board markers and everyone looks at me like I have three eyes. So I'm gonna have to break down and order some online. Until then we will have fun with old fashioned chalk.

I also replaced my white dry erase board for this sleek, fun, flat chalk board from the contact paper. Now it fits in with my Tuscan theme kitchen more than the big white board.

And here's a shot of our kitchen. It's been a slow and long transformation. It used to have green counters and wood cabinets. I LOVE paint. With it you can transform anything for very little cost.

Below you can see the table that sits our big family for meals. There used to be a green table attached to the wall with 4 green chairs. The old owner was obsessed with green. Our carpet is green and the fans used to be green. The last green left is the carpet in the house. One day....

Below is another new addition Sean added a few months ago that I don't know how I lived without! Now I have more space in my cabinets and I'm not having to rummage through a ton of pots to find the right one and then go looking for the matching top. Below it you will notice the Menu I designed for my family. To see more about it go here. I used to have it hanging on the wall but recently put it in a recipe holder instead.

Live well....Laugh often...Love much

I painted the cabinets beige and then went over them with brown to make it a more Tuscan look.

These bar stools go way back. When I was going away to college my mom and I found these at Salvation Army. They were covered with green leather (what is it with green people?). It must have come from a smoking home because the foam smelled awful. I got new foam, covered them, refinished the wood and here they are still being used 15 years later.

So far this summer....

Our first week of summer vacation was fun....and long. It feels like we have been on summer vacation for about a month. When I looked at the calendar I was shocked when I realized it had only been a week. I need to make a much longer list of things to do....we went through a lot of them in one week. I think we swam most everyday because it is so hot it's hard to do much else outside.

Above the kids were coloring because they were excited about the new things I hung to display their art work. Pictures of that to come. If you notice the tent is still up. This is the front room in our house that has been so many things since we moved in...a dining room, office and more recently a second living room. (And usually the room that stays clean) The wall painting of all our names I designed myself in photoshop and painted it on the wall. I love it and it's the first thing you see when you walk in the door to our house.

I thought this huge bag of blocks that I recently bought since our old ones did not stand the test of three boys and were scratched all over (I use them for photo shoots too) would entertain them for a while. This only occupied them for about 15 mintues....and on to the next thing! As you can see our dog Dillard is usually in all the pictures because she thinks she's like Nana on Peter Pan.

One day the boys cousin Ellie and Sadie came to swim with them at my parents house. They sure loved that! I had to post this picture because I thought it was so funny that Asher was tryin to drive the car and eat popcorn at the same time.