Tolentreasures

Supplies needed: Surface, (of course I am using up the the 200 doors that are in the cellar) Refer to this. Crackle medium of your choice A candle A good 1/2 inch flat brush. Sponge Chalkboard Paint DecoArt Americana Black Cocoa Bleached Sand Heritage Brick Antique Maroon Milk Chocolate Antique Gold Mustard Seed Butter Another version...they all come out different. If you have pre-finished doors, sand the areas that you are going to paint. Paint the frame and the main area black. (Almost everything I paint starts out black.) Decide on the area that you want to be the chalkboard and mark it off. For an arch, find the center of your board and mark it. Fold a piece of paper in half and cut an arch with scissors. Line up the centers and trace the arch with chalk. Tape off the straight edges and paint a heavy coat of the chalkboard paint on the marked out area. Sponge the chalkboard paint. (I hoard sponges from in jewelry boxes, they are perfect for this sponging and for sponging back...

Just as a general disclaimer, some of this might have influenced the following pictures. Aunt Shelby on the swing with all four kids. This is a very hard shot to get, all four of them in one shot. The lollipops might have helped. "Are you really sending me out in public in this get-up?" Final touches for the garden gnome. Mario would have no part of a moustache. But Tyler/Luigi loved his! Kendall/Mermaid Girl got her first lollipop this year. She LOVED that! Her little tongue was moving so fast to lap that up. And after the costumes came off...Hey, Hey I Wanna Be a Rock Star. The pics are blurry, there was that much action. The big kids were fighting with the little kids for the "toys". And at midnight when they all left, Tyler was asleep in our bed and I said,"Just leave him here, I'll bring him home in the morning." This shot is about 7:30 in the morning after we have watched Tom and Jerry, read all four I Spy Books, played with Play- Doh and now...