What? You don't think it's amazing?
You have no clue what it is??
It's my new magnet board!!!!
Actually, It's an oil drip pan to stick under your car when you are doing mechanical things, duh.
Maybe you'll think she's pretty now....right?!
So, for months...and I do mean MONTHS...I have been wanting to make and put up one of those cute little magnet bulletin boards that everyone seems to have. I'd heard that "Roberts" sells them and all you have to do is decorate them and VOILA! But I don't live in Utah and we don't have a "Roberts" and I can't find the darn things ANYWHERE.
So next I went to GOOGLE (my BFF) and tried to figure out how crafty momma's living nowhere near a "Robert's Craft" can make these cute little magnet boards. That proved to be an amazing wealth of information that included power tools and trips to Home Depot for sheet metal and picture frames....and....and.....and more elements to the project than I could possibly worry about. See, I'm a LAZY crafter and I'm incredibly impatient so I need results now in the fewest steps possible. Sorry crafty mommy's I'm gonna take the easy road....
Well then last week, I'm wandering around our local Walmart and my husband stops in the Automotive section for something...I don't know some guy thing...I forget. Anyway, staring at me is this amazingly HUGE METAL drip pan. OMGosh...my brain was OOZING with ideas. I wasn't sure if it was magnetic so I went and grabbed some magnets off the shelf in the Office Supply aisle and yep...it's real metal. Yippee...I did a flip right there in the aisle (okay I only did it in my head). So, I went back and bought it earlier this week.
Next I went to Hobby Lobby (they don't have those in Utah...so THERE "Robert's Craft," whoever you are) and got some cute paper, went home and modgepodged it!!!! Isn't it wonderful? Isn't that the coolest?? No cutting sheet metal or purchasing a frame. The whole project cost me less than $15 and it would've only really been like $10 if I hadn't bought the scrap paper! YAY ME!!
9 comments:
Sweet!! I'm the laziest crafter ever! I love this. That is something I can handle! Aren't you clever?!?
Love it, Love it!! Thanks for the motivation!! :)
You are the crafty queen! Love it!
That turned out so cute! And I never would have thought to use an oil drip pan!
I do love your cute little board! Guess what? There is a Hobby Lobby in logan! I love that store too. :)
Awesome! It looks great! I am a buy it made girl because I am not creative enough and I spend a million years to make a simple craft. Even though I enjoy doing it, I just suck!
That sure IS cute! I love it! I might have to make something like that my next craft project...if I ever get to feeling crafty again! Way to go, Alida!
very clever..will have to remember that metal sheet! and just to make you feel bad Utah does have a Hobby Lobby now...seriously! Do they have to have EVERYTHING!!!!!
That is a SUPER RAD idea! I totally am going to do this after we move!
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