For the Love of Chalkboard (cabinets)

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We had to do a lot of things around the house to get it ready to sell. And once again, I had to paint the kitchen cabinets. In case you haven't heard about my saga known as "these annoyingly stupid kitchen cabinets" you can read here. After I painted them that time.. the paint peeled off. Truly I think the paint that I had used that time was bad. So two weeks ago I stripped all the paint off, sanded them, and painted them again.  It actually went a lot quicker and looks awesome. My favorite thing though is something I have wanted to do for a long time. I painted the inside of the cabinets … [Read more...]

The Joys of Painting

Remember this Post about painting my kitchen cabinets? Take a look in case you've forgotten.. I'll wait for you......Ok ready for the rest of the story now? Today I decided to clean them with multi purpose windex. I've cleaned them tons of times with an all natural cleanser I use but never with Windex. The paint had never dried extremely hard as little scratches and things such as that would always show but when I tried to wipe the windex off, entire sheets of paint came off the front of the cabinets.  Huge huge pieces of paint peeled right off the cabinet fronts and now you can … [Read more...]

Exhausted, Busy, Tired, Exhausted

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ugh... I've been busy which has made me tired and exhausted. I'm going back to the gym everyday to loose this baby weight and all the other weight that has found me over the years. So that is making me sore and tired. To top it all off, thursday we had to empty out all of our cabinets in the kitchen so that the bug guy could come spray inside our cabinets on friday. Well, being the genius that I am.... I decided that I would just go ahead and give all the cabinets a quick coat of paint while they were empty. I'm laughing on the inside, or is that pain?Friday morning after our bug guy left, I … [Read more...]