the STOOL

I HAD to share this with you!

It was SO EASY

and SO FUN.

And did not require ANY fancy 'machinery'!

I didn't take a BEFORE photo of the STOOL.

But I had it for YEARS.

Unfinished.

Actually it had a coat of very dirty looking paint on the top ONLY.

It was in the bathroom, for my kiddos to reach the sink.

For some reason, I finally really SAW it.

And I had some cool RED spray paint that I'd had for awhile now...

I cleaned it up,

and sprayed three coats of paint on it.

I love Funky Junk Donna's lettering projects...
(if you click on the above colored name, it'll take you to one of her projects!)

they are fabulous!

But I don't own a cricut or have access to a fancy die cutting machine.

All I have is my trusty computer!

So I went into PUBLISHER

found a font that I loved the best for THIS project...

made it FIT in the space I needed...

changed it to OUTLINE and printed it on paper...

hand cut out the letters...

to create a STENCIL

and used some 'old' QUILT BASTING SPRAY that I already had,

to temporarily adhere the paper to the painted wood!

It WORKED!

So VOILA!

Here's the STOOL!

I put this cute stool beneath a cute little fun SPOT for the kiddos.
I found the dry erase board for 50cents...
cleaned it up...
and Terry had already painted a leftover board with chalkboard paint...

the chalkboard has a strip of sticky back velcro on it, 
with the 'matching' velcro pieces stuck on the pens!
So there's a place for everything!

I think they'll like it...
don't you???


I did all this as PART of my 
'Crazy spring cleaning day'...
more to come!


thanks for visiting!
danella