The Tiny Chalkboard

So. I work at Michaels, right? And I pretty much love it, besides the fact that I have to do other things besides stock and organize yarn.

And I spend a lot of time there, recently. (I pour all my funds back into this store thanks to their sales) And I just spent about fifteen dollars on crap. Not really crap, I needed it. Kinda.

I bought this mini chalkboard awhile back thinking "Oh wow! This'll be so cool! I'll have a little chalkboard to write on and stick my sushi magnets on for our craft table."

Yeah, it's not magnetic.

And it really shouldn't bother me so bad but I was so disappointed that I had wasted 3 dollars on it (Thanks to the goodwill ;D )

One day I was stocking paint on the craft paint aisle and I noticed Martha Stewart had magnetic paint! Sweet goodness! This fixed everything! I'd read about spray on magnetic paint but read some reviews online that said nothing good about it. But Martha surely wouldn't screw me over like that damn kryon spray on crap.

You see, I trust Martha Stewart. God knows why, but I trusted her paint to save my dream of sushi magnets on my adorable mini chalkboard.

I got the little bugger for about four dollars thanks to a handy dandy coupon and my sister and I read the instructions and painted, waited, and painted some more.

Even though I probably wont ever buy it again it got the job done. Sort of. The jar said to put on 2-3 coats but we put on easily six coats for it to hold my little maki sushi. It's not as sure fire strong as I wanted but I was just too lazy to go get a piece of sheet metal cut.

But now I have a tiny chalkboard! :D