I love a good deal, don't you?
Ever since we took our financial class this fall and put ourselves on a "budget", good deals have become that much more of a thrill.
We don't have an abundant stock of Christmas decorations {I purged many of them when we moved - I had grown tired of the decorations we had}. Since I've been in a word art phase, I was thinking I could make some signs with "cutesy" sayings.
While shopping at the dollar store for craft items for the kids, these wooden {mdf} pieces caught my eye...
Not because of their design, but for their "bones". I picked a couple of them up because $1 each was a good deal. When I got to the register to pay for them they were only 25 cents each!!! A deal at the dollar store!?!? Score!
With this one I did no prep work at all. I painted a couple coats of black craft paint on it. When the paint dried it had a very matte {almost chalkboard} finish.
At first I thought that I might actually try to chalk my design on it...but couldn't find any chalk around the house. So then I thought white paint, but in looking for the right brush, I stumbled across a white colored pencil and decided to give it a try...and it worked perfectly!
The end result...a cute little "wall art" piece for only a quarter!!!
The price was so inexpensive, and it took so little effort that I won't feel bad or question myself if I want to repaint or redo it.
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