~chalkboards aren't just for kids~

 Sometimes I get inspired by the strangest things.

The other day at Starbucks while eating my fattening low fat low cal cranberry bliss bar

{ha-ha}

I saw the cutest little nutcracker on the pastry bag. 

I thought to myself, "that would be so cute enlarged on my chalkboard wall in our kitchen!"

So, I set out to buy colored chalk, only to find out the red was more pink on the wall.

So then I found at my local craft store, chalk pens in "earthy" hues. 

I set to work yesterday to re-create this cute little guy on my wall. 

I enlarged the guy off the bag 700% at my local copy center and then cut out the image, taped it to my wall, and traced around it.

Then I filled in all the details.

 This was the same wall last year around this time.

See, chalkboards aren't just for kids!

xoxo