Screen or bulletin board?

Well today is Thursday and it is time to see if the tasks on the 5 tasks a week challenge over at The Shabby Cottage were met. 

1. Got the shelves hung in the craft room - yeah

2. Got the craft room organized - yeah

3. Lights are hung in the kitchen - yeah

4. Kitchen hardware has been installed - yeah

but 5. Didn't get the butlers pantry cleared out. 

Oh well 4 out of 5 is good. I'll get them all next week I am sure of it. 

Okay so I was driving my sick kid home from getting McDonald's for lunch. McFlurries help the sore throat he said and who am I to deny the little man something that will make him feel better. While driving I see a pile of discarded home products - okay a trash pile on the road. I see old screens in that pile so I do a quick stop and jump out to investigate.

I found two really large screens and then this smaller one that is about 2.5 feet by 5 feet. I throw them all in the back of the car hoping no one sees me but alas not so. My neighbor is out walking his dog and waves to me. Busted. Trash picking and busted.

Oh well I get home and take them out and realize this smaller one would make an awesome bulletin board to hang on my butlers pantry door to hold phone numbers and school notes.

It got a nice hosing off then was left to dry. 

 

I cut some foam core to proper size for the two openings.

Then I got my handy dandy spray adhesive. Should have done that part outside but now I did a thorough cleaning of any and all hair in the room. It is all stuck on the bottom of my shoes. Gross. I like to use foam core instead of rolled cork as it is thicker and the tacks work better in it. 

I place a layer or warm and natural batting on first. To give it some more bulk. 

Then comes my fave fabric right now- burlap. Yes that is a whole bolt. Our Walmart got rid of its fabric with their remodel so fabric went to 50% off so heck I bought the whole bolt. You can't have enough burlap I say.

Sprayed some more sticky adhesive then put my burlap layer over the batting layer.

I then turned it over and sprayed adhesive on the edges to help with the folding down. I didn't trust the adhesive to hold completely so I turned to my other friend in the "sticky" family- yes duct tape. 

Here are the two sections put into the back of the screen. I then tapped in a couple of brad nails around the edges and bent them over to hold the boards in.

And voila, here she is all done. I decided against painting her as I love old, peeling, original paint. And the original is robins' egg blue so can't go wrong there can you? 

I decided she needed a bit of jewelry when I hung her up so I whipped out a little banner with the word DREAM on it. 

Now all she needs are some cool vintage tacks to use on her. I guess I'll work on those tomorrow.

I am linking this to:

Transformation Thursdays over at The Shabby Chic Cottage

Creative Cats Friday over at Poppies at Play

Furniture Feature Friday over at Miss Mustard Seed

Saturday Nite Special over at Funky Junk Interiors

Join in the fun at any or all of these parties.

thanks, tammy