Up For A Quickie?

A quickie project that is - I'm sure I don't know what you thought I meant!

Since the letter O has eluded me since Friday and my Halloween banner project is on hold, I had to fill my time with other frivolities this weekend. Not to worry - the Queen Vee actually had a spare O to loan me, so I will finish up that project, display it in its entirety AND post a quick tutorial for all who've requested it once said O is in my possession.

In the meantime, I did manage to conceptualize, begin and even finish a project to take my mind off that silly little letter that managed to escape the hot glue gun! Best of all, my new project was absolutely FREE to me as I used only things I already had in the house.

I've long bemoaned the pitiful pantry that came with our house. There is no changing it - its location, its size, its hideous doorknob (okay, I could change that, but then I'd have to change the other 50 knobs in the house too). I've always wanted to do something to spruce it up a bit and was inspired by my friend Emily's post on chalkboard paint. Of course my door is skinny and lame, so I couldn't really spray the door like she did. I did, however, have an old calendar holder that wasn't being used anymore -- we had to upgrade in size because our life's activities were too numerous for a regular wall calendar! So I busted out the leftover spray paint from another project, taped off, and created my own chalkboard in just three coats. The whole project took less than an hour! (shhh . . . don't tell anyone that I didn't really observe the typical spray paint drying times.)

I fastened it to the door with some of these Command hangers by 3M. If you've never used these, you should go buy some right now and find something, anything to hang! The great thing about these hangers is that you can hang them on pretty much any surface and when you want to take the hanger off, it leaves no mark. I have a pretty aged bronze one on my front door for my wreaths, I hung pictures on my tile back splash with a smaller version and now I've got a chalkboard on my pantry door thanks to Command hangers. Yeah, I pretty much heart 3M for inventing these.

Here's the finished product - I think its fun and it definitely makes me feel a little less bitter towards the tiny pantry behind the door!

Won't you share a quickie project with us today? It would really make my Monday.