Ceiling Tile Bulletin Board

Our daughter, Chelsea, is getting ready to go to Dental Assistant School.  We have the necessities - antique desk and a backpack.  The only thing she needed was a bulletin board!  She picked up her "little sister" Dakota last night and they put together their own version of a bulletin board I had designed (which I called "the General" because it tells you what to do and when to do it.)  We took an antique ceiling tile and strung beads on a wire for a hanger.  Then we covered a piece of corkboard with fabric and hotglued it to the tin.  We dug thru my treasure of vintage brooches, earrings, etc. and glued tacks to the back of them.  We will embellish craft magnets to use on the metal when I can dig thru my treasure of vintage brooches, earrings, etc and find the craft magnets.  It will probably just be easier to go buy more. I am going straight to the office to print the following off for the young women to put on their fabulous new bulletin board:

 Ruth


patiently 


waited for


her mate 


Boaz. 

While waiting on 

YOUR Boaz,

 don't settle 

for ANY of his relatives:

Brokeaz, Poaz, Lyinaz, Cheatinaz,

Dumbaz, Cheapaz, Lockedupaz, 

Goodfornothinaz, Lazyaz, or Marriedaz,

and especially his third cousin Beatinyoaz. 

Please, wait on your Boaz & make sure he respects Yoaz!

my favorite before and after piece

My daughter needed a piece to go in a certain corner of her apartment, and of course always needs extra storage.  I had this Armoire that I paid less than $50 for and knew it had great potential.  Of course I did this before I was introduced to the world of blogging so I don't have in-transformation pictures, but I can assure you they would not be very pretty!  I can tell you the steps I took, though.  Kilz -(my best friend), then I painted it with Ralph Lauren Regent Metallic paint.  I left the door panels unpainted.  Busted up a mirror and a few fingers and glued them on with E6000 ( oh, no.... that might be my best friend).  Found various glitzy pieces of old broken jewelry, etc. and glued them on.  I loved the pearl outline - it needed something to outline it.  There are times when I know God inspired the idea, and the pearl outline was certainly one of those.  Then the hard part.  I bought resin on-line.... It is NO fun to work with, but I knew I needed to seal all of this off, especially with the broken mirrors.  And Voile!  I will post a pic later of how it looks in her apartment.  Beautiful.

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my favorite before and after piece

Just DO it!

I think the hardest part of starting anything is the challenge of taking on the unfamiliar.  I have had a desire to blog for a long time, but wasn't sure how to start.  I think it's kinda like waiting to buy a Christmas gift for the hardest person on my list.  I wait until the last minute thinking that the perfect gift will fall into my lap - and guess what!  Of course it never does - and I end up buying another gift card (which I love to get, by the way... Hobby Lobby thrills me every time. haha).  So, Here goes my first blog.  What an introduction.

I found 2 beautiful cabinet doors at a yard sale  for $1.  Of course they didn't look like this when I bought them - and I had no idea they would end up being the object of my first blog so I didn't take a picture.  This is where the concept of "Just DO it" comes in.  The logical mind says "those are pretty wood, but what the heck will I do with them?"  The Creative minds says "Wow!  Just a dollar!  Don't know what I will do with them, but I gotta have them!"  Then they sit in my garage for a few months until I go to one of those really good sales at Hobby Lobby - you know the kind that has you racing for the corner with your basket.  I bought these two wall plaques with absolutely no idea what I would do with them... and voila!!  Inspiration!  


I have a word of instruction about gluing these suckers on, though.  There exists no glue strong enough to hold them onto the slick wood.  Just trust me on this one.  You can guess why.  My redneck remedy is to put a nail thru the wood where the holder is on the back of the plaque - THEN put your glue on.  Gives you extra insurance that your creation will not fall apart.