Mommy's Helper

As many of you know, I have a small obsession with old windows and old doors. It started after owning a near 100 year old home. When our home in Green Bay was built, a door wasn't just a door, it was something beautiful to look at before you entered a room and windows weren't just functional elements to let in light and fresh air, but beautiful frames for the views they created. Anyway, i found this particular crusty old door and fell in love with it...broken window and all. I'm sure it's full of lead paint and will poison my children if they suck on it, so they'll have to stick to the old teething ring instead. I had to find a place for it in my home, but old doors do not fit the door frames of homes built in the late 1970's, so I turned the door into a chalkboard and added a cute little vinyl bistro sign. Here is Reese checking my measurements (with her own tape measure) for the chalkboard to make sure they are right.





Here is the (almost) finished product. I'm going to anchor it to the wall after we paint. Quincy is creeping everywhere and i don't want it to come down on her, it weighs like 40 pounds! I haven't tried out the chalkboard yet, hopefully it really works!