He started out by cutting a piece of 1/4″ MDF to the size that he wanted to chalkboard to be..

So then I started feeling a little silly and I drew this smiley face with a stuck out tongue on my washing machine.I thought for sure it would come right off because everything smooth seemed to be so easy to clean.. Hehe.

It faded it pretty good, but it’s still there, for sure..So now I’m on the lookout for a cute little laundry chart printable that I can cover this little mishap up with..Moral of the story: Rubbing alcohol works great if you need to clean Sharpie off of somethings, just don’t be stupid about it.. Like, um….

* The nail polish remover worked!So now you really can clean Sharpie off of just about anything!I think it’s fair to say at this point that I’ve gone a little light fixture crazy.

Just in the last few months, we’ve put a new lantern up in the front hall,.

two pendants in the upstairs bedroom we’re working on.The other day, I was watching the baby and Chris was watching Ellen or something so I asked him to go hang this mirror on the back of Kennedy’s closet door.

It’s something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time, just to get it out of the way and make it usable for her, but it was just a plain cheapo mirror with  no hanging hardware, so I wasn’t exactly sure how it was going to happen.I knew Chris would figure something out though.

Here’s a great tip for how to hang a picture quickly and easily.. How to Hang a Picture, Mirror, or Sign.If we have any hanging hardware around this house anywhere, I don’t know where it is right now, so this is just as good.