Finding Secret Treasure: Mailbox

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Vintage Mail Box - It's A Chalkboard!

Philemon 1:21

Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask. (NIV)

Is there anything that can't be made into a Chalkboard?

This summer I picked up this Vintage metal Mailbox at a yard sale, it's been sitting in my "stash" ever since. So I decided it was time to put some paint to it!

After I gave it a coat of Black paint, I thought... sometimes I do that...

Maybe it would look cute, painted with Chalkboard Paint, so you could write messages on it

Most of the time these wall mailboxes on a covered porch, or even just used for display inside, so I went for it!

How cute would it be to leave messages for your mailman!

Super Easy Project just used Spray Chalkboard paint, about 3 coats over the base coat of Flat Black

Then painted the front Medallion White, and distressed the whole thing to give it a more aged look

I then "Cured" it, This is an important step, all you need to do is take the side of a piece of chalk and color in all the areas that will be used as a chalkboard. First run the chalk Horizontal, the vertical, and wipe it off. I did this several times. If you don't "cure" it, the first things you write will never go away completely.

Let me know if you have any questions...

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Monday, October 8, 2012

Rusty Mailbox Memories

759, the address of the Home where I grew up, below is the mailbox that stood at the end of driveway. My Dad's name proudly sits on top, still in the original white paint, still the original numbers, everything the way it was so many years ago, with the exception of the location. It now sits (as of a few days ago) about half way back our little lane, on an old stump, beside my Father-in-law's old mailbox.

When my Father-in-law passed away over twenty years ago my husband saved his mailbox, then when my Dad passed away about five years later, I did the same. It didn't seem right to just pitch them...and I always new I'd find some way to use them.

Last Christmas I grabbed the one and used it in a outdoor display, and then it was tucked away in the shed that has been their home for years.

One day I saw a picture of a stump with flowers on pinterest, and immediately knew, what I would be doing with our old Family Mailboxes. They finally have a home.