Blackboard Love

I have been admiring the beautiful blackboard displays on blogs, websites and books for quite some time now. A little while ago I stumbled across this flickr group which is filled with gorgeous boards, depicting seasons, stories, festivals and more.

I had assumed that this was a classroom thing, really, and that we don't have a suitable place in the house for a blackboard, I'd put the idea out of my head for making it a reality at home.

Then I saw some little blackboards in the supermarket Christmas aisle a few weeks ago. They had an artful floral picture on one section and a blackboard area on the other part. They were super cheap so I took one home to see what I could do with it.

We did some more wet on wet painting and stuck one of them on the board to cover the floral picture and to put our own stamp on it.

And then, inspired by this I had a go at a little scene inspired by our, then, up and coming Gnome's Bonfire party (that never ended up happening because of the rain :o().

So it seems I have managed to incorporate a bit of blackboard love into our little house after all. I'm quite pleased with it and Cameron said he is in awe of my chalk skills!