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How to Make a Chalkboard Sign

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How to Make a Chalkboard sign by Brad, a.k.a Mr. 32 Turns. I am am excited to guest post for Britany today!

So you want to learn how to make a chalkboard sign? I came up with the idea to take a piece of trash and turn it into something useful so I got invited to the club; you can call it a “treasure” if you want to. It is kind of funny though, I feel like Britany has me brainwashed to keep my eyes peeled for projects to post about. Come on, I know you other husbands of bloggers must feel the same right?! When I presented the idea of turning an old griddle into a chalkboard sign she said I absolutely had to post about it. I am quite sure this was because she wouldn’t dare take credit for such a thing.

Me post about something?! I can hardly read let alone type. In fact it has taken me 45 minutes to get to this point (no not really). I almost regretted bringing this idea up in the first place but I said I’d do it, so here I am.  Saying “yes, dear” is a big ingredient for the recipe of a happy marriage cake. After this post, I’ll be happy to sneak back into the shadows of 32 Turns by managing the technical side again; and so will you. Happy reading!

On Saturday I was working on the car, cleaning the garage, burping, and doing other manly stuff.  Until I looked over and saw this old griddle sitting in the trash. The brain wash mechanics kicked right in and I thought, “Hmm, what I can I turn this into?” (thought in the voice of monotone robot 😐 ). The griddle looks to be in pretty good shape but makes yin yang pancakes. You know, the kind of pancakes where one side is completely white and uncooked and the other side is black and over cooked; cheap WalMart special. Most of the time the griddle wouldn’t even heat up unless you placed a block of cheese under the cable connector. Unfortunately, this kitchen appliance was beyond repair.

Old griddle sitting in the trash

I started by taking out all of the screws to see what it looked like without the handles and frame. I have been doing this since Continue reading

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Removing Bubblegum with Peanut Butter – Day 9

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Gum, I do love to chew it, A LOT! But….unfortunately so do my girls. Usually they are really good with gum. They chew it, they spit it in the trash when they are done, well sometimes they might swallow it but of course they don’t tell me when they do that. 🙂 They do however tell me when they get that chewed up sticky gum someplace other than their mouth or the trash, Ugh!. We have had gum in their hair, they even got gum in my hair one time! We have had gum on the carpet in the house and on the floor mats in the car. It has been on our chairs and on our counter tops.

Man….when I read the last few sentences back to myself it sounds like we are a crazy gum stuck everywhere household! That isn’t true, I don’t think! But I do have a trick that will help with sticky gum situations, yay!

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How to Make a Kids Apron

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Hi everyone!  I am excited to be here guest posting for Britany’s awesome blog.  A few weeks ago I got to spend a few days visiting my sister and her family WITHOUT my own three wonderful crazy children.  Brit and I both started having kids around the same time so I don’t often get the opportunity to just be the fun Auntie.  I really enjoyed hanging out with my two cute nieces without the distraction my own responsibilities bring. Continue reading

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Fabric Flowers

Fabric Flowers

Sometimes when I am working on a project another project springs into my head and then I have to stop what I am doing to work on the new idea that I can’t stop from bouncing around in my brain. A lot of times this is what causes my craft room to look like a tornado has blown through! This constant shifting of attentions is also what oftentimes is the cause of me having many started projects and few finished ones! =) These particular fabric flowers popped into my head begging to be made whilst my sister and I were (well…mostly my sister) sewing up some aprons for my 2 girls. I love the fabric combo, teal and pink are so yummy and they just needed to be combined on a shirt for my littlest. Super easy to make! I just grabbed a white shirt from her closet and fabric scraps from the sewing project that I stopped mid halt to whip these babies up.

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Lamp Makeover

Lamp Makeover

I know this is kind of a silly little post:) But I am going to post it up anyway!!! There are always things sitting around my house that I don’t like and would be so easy to change with a little spray paint, fabric, a hot glue gun, etc. But I don’t do it….until one day I DO! Then it takes me like 5 minutes to update something and I love it when before I hated it. WHY do I wait so long to just take a few minutes to change things and make them fit my space better? Do any of you do this? Continue reading

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