Chore Star Tutorial & PYP Give-AWAY!

Ryan can tell when my day has been particularly stressful or busy when he asks if we got any good mail and I gasp and put on my big eyes and say I haven't gotten the mail yet!  Taking a shower and getting the mail are two of my favorites of each day.  So, camping puts a cramp in both those, which is probably why we've never gone with our kids.

The other day a box of cheerful, bright, happy items showed up on my doorstep, handed to me by one of my favorite people, the mailman, of course!  I don't even know his name, yet day after day he brings birthday gifts, hand-written notes, and surprises like this one.  I ought to write him a hand-written note.

It was from the hottest flash sale sight for crafts: Pick Your Plum.  I got going on a little project with some of the supplies that was in that morsel-y goodness of a box (Have you caught it yet?  The PYP Fever? )  I spray painted these wooden bunting triangles with some chalkboard paint (it recommends 2 coats).

I didn't have any nails that were bigger than the holes, so I thought I'd use some little wooden stars I had to cover them, but you can always buy some large headed nails to do the trick and save a couple of steps.

I painted the stars with the chalkboard paint as well and positioned the triangles on the wall using painters tape to keep them in place while I figured out how I wanted them and to avoid peeling the paint.

My skinny nails kept cracking my stars (I finally learned my lesson after the 4th one), so I drilled tiny holes in them before hammering them into the wall.

They're subtle, but fun.  (And do you know what I learned last weekend?  Benjamin Moore can make any color of paint into chalkboard paint!  What?!)

Around here we rotate after-meal chores each week, but undoubtedly Ryan and I are hollering "who's on clear? who's on wipe? who's on sweep?" so I thought we'd use our star as a weekly reminder so I know who the guilty ones are ;) (Putting napkins in dirty laundry and dishes are the other two, in case you were wondering).  I may go get some more little stars to add because I love the shooting-star-trailing look.

Now for the fun part!  I get to choose a winner to receive their very own Pick Your Plum box (that's $75 worth of goodies!)

How shall we play today?  How about you tell me what you would do with a weekend entirely to yourself?

★Leave your answer in the comment section (just one please!)

★If you're an overachiever, you can get an extra entry for following NBD (that's me!)

★You have until D week to enter (that's next week).

Good luck!