If At Commencement You Lot Don't Succeed...

If At Commencement You Lot Don't Succeed...

THESE parties this week!

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope you lot had a bang-up Thanksgiving!
Gratitude turns what nosotros own got into enough.
It's slowly to allow the excitement of the Christmas
 holiday continue us busy!
Like, busier than the balance of the yr combined, busy!  

Take some fourth dimension to hold out thankful,
Think of others 
and pass fourth dimension amongst loved ones.
 

"Time is your most precious gift 
because you lot entirely own got a laid upward sum of it. 
You tin brand to a greater extent than money, 
but you lot can't brand to a greater extent than time. 
When you lot laissez passer on mortal your time, 
you are giving them a component subdivision of your
 life that you'll never give-up the ghost back. Your fourth dimension is your life. 
That is why the greatest gift you lot can
 give mortal is your time.
It is non plenty to simply tell relationships
 are important; nosotros must bear witness it past times investing
 time inward them. Words lone are worthless.
 "My children, our dearest should non be
 just words as well as talk; it must hold out truthful love,
 which shows itself inward action." 
Relationships own got fourth dimension as well as effort, 
and the best agency to piece dearest is "T-I-M-E."
 --Rick Warren

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New Year's Build Clean Slate Gift Idea!

New Year's Build Clean Slate Gift Idea!

Here's a quick New Year's gift...
inwards example you lot didn't create something fabulous for Christmas.
Chalkboard as well as to a greater extent than or less twine!
"Helping you lot roll upwards the former yr as well as a fresh slate for 2014!"

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Hello Friends Chalkboard Greeting Sign!

Hello Friends Chalkboard Greeting Sign!

 Last yr I won a "my favorite things" giveaway from
House of Smiths
It came beautifully wrapped as well as filled amongst fun!
(Those sweetness as well as salty nuts were gone the same day...so good)
But buried nether this pile was a chalkboard sign!
encounter it there...peeking out?

 I lastly got it out as well as wrote 'hello friends' on it.
I used regular former chalk as well as thus a chalk marking to outline it.
I added only about twine to hang it...and it plant on everything!
Simple burlap wreath:

 Mesh Fabric as well as Bowtie Wreath

 Even on this tree trimming amongst plane nest!
(my wife was pruning trees as well as i of them was completely dead...it snapped inwards one-half when
 he touched it...so he clipped the branches downwards as well as nosotros stuck it inwards the front end pot!)

 Looks similar it belongs there!

 And inwards this fluffy burlap wreath I used here as well as here.

This is an slowly DIY to spruce upwardly a frame, door or other sign hanging space!
You could brand your ain chalkboard amongst sparse mdf as well as a jigsaw.
Fun gift persuasion too!

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Hollywood Film Clapper!

Hollywood Film Clapper!

Hollywood Movie Clapper!
My boy made this for his sis for Christmas concluding year.
She loves pretending everything is a movie!
He spray painted ii boards amongst chalkboard spray paint.

We got a big debate hinge too screwed the ii pieces together.
We taped off the stripes...

And he painted the stripes white...

And action!

She loves it too tin write on it amongst chalk!
Fun too simple!
(she equally good uses it equally a guillotine for her toys...morbid right?)

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Wood While Chalkboard Ornaments

Wood While Chalkboard Ornaments

  Wood spell Chalkboard Ornaments!

I got an adorable log as well as sliced it into 1/2 inch slices.

I used dark pigment as well as a clear chalkboard coating paint.

 

Just pigment them whatsoever color you lot desire.  

We went amongst the traditional black.

Let it dry out completely.

Paint amongst the clear chalkboard coating...

Then drill a minor hole inward the plow over off as well as necktie on closed to twine!

Rub the entire chalkboard surface amongst the side of a minor spell of chalk.

 Then erase it. 

 This only "seasons" the chalkboard as well as makes it ready for writing!

 Now you lot tin terminal write whatsoever you lot want!
I bought this awesome chalk pencil...so I tin terminal write amongst a sparse chalk for to a greater extent than detail!

 You tin terminal hang them on the tree...or
attach them to gifts equally the tags!  Super cute as well as fun!
(if you lot convey REAL Christmas trees, you lot could ever cutting the
 trunk upwardly afterwards the holidays as well as brand a bunch!)

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