Spray Paint

09.12.

Laundry Room Make Over Series: DIY “WASH” Sign

I have been wanting to “Spruce” up my Laundry Room for a while.

I didn’t want to break the bank in the process though, so I decided I would do it in fazes. This is the first post in a series of posts I will do as I update it. 🙂

I had seen the letters “W A S H” on someone else’s Laundry Room wall and I decided to do it myself. I think it was Kathryn from Do It On a Dime, which is a Youtube channel, but she also has a blog that she started recently to go along with it. LOVE her! She has great tips for ……. you guessed it, Doing things on a Dime, or on the cheap. You can check out her youtube channel here, and her blog here.

So, first off, I went to my local craft store, AC Moore and bought the unfinished wooden letters. They were 2 for $5.00, which I thought was pretty good.

I also picked up a can of Rust-Oleum’s Painter’s Touch Spray Paint in a Metallic Aluminum Color for $6.99. My walls are painted Stonington Gray by Benjamin Moore in the Laundry Room and instead of painting them a contrasting color, I wanted them to have almost an “embossed” look, so I chose a color as similar as possible to the wall color.

I sprayed them with 2 light coats of paint and it covered VERY VERY well.

This was the end result, which I’m really happy with.

However, I might move the letters because since I did the letters, we have decided to do a few more updates to the Laundry Room, which I am REALLY excited about.

I will make sure to do updates on it as we progress through the work.

While I was at it, I decided to take a White Wired Trash Can I purchased at the Dollar Tree and spray it too.

While you might not be able to tell a huge difference on photo, it did spice it up a little and not make it look so “Dollar Tree”ish. Did that sound bad? I hope not. I was definitely happy with the fact that I was able to get more uses out of the one can of spray paint and still had some left to do other projects!

Stay tuned for more updates on the Laundry Room Makeover!

XOXO,

Esther

Tags: AC Moore, Benjamin Moore, Cheap Makeover, Crafting, DIY, Do It In A Dime, Laundry Room, Painter's Touch, Rustoleum, Sign, Spray Paint, Stonington Gray, Wash, Wooden Letters, Youtube

08.15.

Why, it’s GREASE lightning!

grease

One of my favorite movies of all time is GREASE!

I remember when I first saw it. How, right before my cousin let me watch it, she had asked me if I had ever seen it. I remember I kept thinking how dumb a movie would be that was called Grease? I just couldn’t wrap my head around it.

Now, I know the entire movie, word for word, song for song, and dance move for dance move!

Now, let me just say that I have this incredibly crafty friend. She always does these themed Family Nights with the coolest ideas and I am just so jealous of how she pulls these things together.

I have been wanting to do something like that for the longest time but just couldn’t get it together and come up with anything……. UNTIL a light bulb finally went off. “DRIVE-IN MOVIE THEATER NIGHT”!!!! This “theater” would be showing Grease!

So, I got to work!

I went to Lowe’s and bought 3 Large sized moving boxes that we would later turn into their “cars”. I let the kids pick their colors, so I left with 2 cans of spray paint and then just used some left over paint we had around the house for the 3rd one.

Here is the one for my Purple Girl.

Little man had to have black.

And there would be no other color for Em than blue…… light blue. 😉

I ran by the grocery store and picked up some white paper plates that I spray painted black. These would be the wheels.

Next, we cut little white circles from drawing paper for the center of the wheels.

We found this great post from Parenting.com that shows you step by step how to cut a card board box into a car! What are the odds?

You can check the same post out here.

I hot glued red plastic plates to the front for head lights and hot glued the wheels on as well. You can’t see it, but I also cut out rectangles from the red plastic plates and hot glued them onto the back for brake lights.

(At the Drive In, waiting for the food they “ordered”.)

(Hot dogs, French Fries, and the one and only Glass Bottled Cokes.)

I was really surprised at how spacious the boxes were. They were able to sit their food down in front of them and still be comfortable.

Which proved to be VERY disappointing for Buster, who was hoping someone would drop something…… anything!

We even had room for pillows. 🙂

The BEST thing about this “Drive-In” was

that it only cost me $25 !!!!

The Breakdown:

Cars: $10.00

Movie: $5.00

Food: $10.00

I can’t remember ever having a fun family night that only cost me $25. That was the cost for our entire family.

Granted, we stayed at home. However, being able to do this and have something the kids could play with even after Family Night was worth it for me. It took me the afternoon to make the cars, but the longest part was allowing time for things to dry.

Plus, this “Drive-In” was extremely FUN!……….. Rain or Shine!