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Lost Socks

7/31/2013

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I'm sure this is a common problem: You take all your newly clean and lovely smelling clothes out of the washing machine to find that the "washing machine has eaten some socks".  So your odd sock(s) go in the sock drawer.  More odd socks are found and they too go in the drawer.  So after a few months, there appears only to be a few pairs of socks and a dozen odd socks.

I am fed up with an odd sock drawer, rather than a sock drawer.  So I made a Lost Sock Post.  I cut a piece of wood to size and painted on my sign, if like me and at the age of 24 you can't stay in the lines you've drawn use a black marker to go around the edge of your letters to hide that fact that you've made the letters messy with paint...opps.  I then painted some pegs and nailed them on the wood.  To hang it on the wall I drilled in two holes, threaded some string through and tied to so branch that I found in the garden to secure it - easy as that.  Here lost socks can be pinned up by the washing machine, until their counter part turns up.  If the Lost Sock post becomes full and no counter parts can be found then it would have been confirmed.....the washing machine does eat all our socks!
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Garden Table

7/18/2013

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In our garden we have a corner plant space.  This built in plant box has convenient corners which are perfect for sitting on.....but alas there was nowhere to put your drink whilst sitting in the sun.  So off I trotted to B&Q, picked up some banister wood and some decking.  Cut the banister wood in half and took off the annoying sloped ends, sanded them down and nailed them onto my decking.....bazinga - table!
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Chalkboard Dining

7/12/2013

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After discovering how to make chalkboard paint, I couldn't help myself make more things with it!  I decided "personalisable dining set".
I got myself some thin-ish wood and traced some existing coasters and placemats.  After cutting out the shapes, I made my chalkboard paint (see here on how to make it) and painted and slated each board.  I made a set of six, with coaster and placemat matching.
You can write guests names on the coaster/placemat - no excuse for some one else drinking your drink....or you drinking someone else's drink.  You could also create different themes for dinner by adding a chalk design on each mat....although I can foresee insults being sent across the table via placemat.
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Herb Garden

7/11/2013

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Whilst clearing out my garden shed I found some hideous, yet in perfectly good condition, plant pots.  I recently saw a post here about making chalkboard paint, and thought "labelled pots".  Each pot is painted and the labels are just drawn on with chalk, so I can change the labels as I change the contents of the pot.

So how do you make chalkboard paint?
You need:
- acrylic paint
- grout
- something to paint (in this case plant pots)

How do you do it?
Mix half a cup of acrylic paint with one table spoon of grout.  


These measurements always confused me - there are too different sizes of cup to define a cup!  I think only in the USA do thy work frequently with the measurements.  I have spent hours trying to find conversions, but then I found scoops with the measurements on them in Pound Stretcher!  WIN!!


Once you've mixed enough to remove all lumps, paint your something.  You have to paint rather quickly as the grout causes the mix the dry quickly.


As you may see from the top photo that pint acrylic paint was measured out.  "But all your pots are blue!" The pink paint was thick and the lumps couldn't be removed, and the mixture wouldn't spread, but if you leave the paint in the sun for a while it thins out enough to work perfectly.
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