Thursday, September 23, 2010

my version of chalkboard rocks

Have you seen Pottery Barn's Halloween collection??  
{Thank you to Dawn at Not Just A Mommy for bringing it to my attention}  
It's all just gorgeous!!!  
One picture stood out.  Chalkboard Rocks!  
I mean, it's just brilliant.  Rocks you can write on - LOVE!

Pottery Barn


Just so happened that I was at Dollar Tree the other day & 
saw some 'jumbo accent rocks' - light bulb!  
I could write on those.  
After a run to Joanns - I had everything I needed.

my paint pen & rocks

  see where I'm going with this???




This took me ~5 minutes to do.  So so simple!  So so cute!

*I know these aren't actually chalk rocks and you can't erase the words and are much smaller than Pottery Barn's rocks. 
But I also know that these were WAY cheaper than my inspiration :) 

Now the fun part is deciding where to display these!




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19 comments:

Bella @ Bella before and after said...

Oh how fun, very great alternative to the very expensive version Im sure. You know what to do with these right, come on over and share, hehe. Bella :)

He & Me + 3 said...

Oh too cute. i am so making these. ADorable! Great job.

Gingerbread Goddess said...

Very cute. I wonder if you could use chalkboard markers (like Starbucks uses) if the look of chalk is what is wanted? Or could they be painted with a chalkboard paint?
I have to get over to the store! Thanks for the idea!

testing 1 said...

Clever girl! I was going to buy chalkboard spraypaint and do the same thing to my white Dollar Store rocks!

Jennifer said...

CUTE and inexpensive!! I LOVE it!! (=

Jodee said...

No way! Those turned out soooo cute! I am totally doing this!

Jodee a/k/a Copycat

Brittany said...

FREAKING love this!

Lori@Paisley Passions said...

Super fun idea! Thanks for sharing your “creative mojo” with me on Thrilling Thursday. I hope you will be back again soon :)
~Lori S.
Thrilling Thursdays @Paisley Passions

FrouFrouBritches said...

Super cute! I spotted those in PB too. Love them! You rock girl!

Stacy Risenmay said...

I Love these!!! I am going to have to make some of them. What a good idea :)

Amanda @ Serenity Now said...

Great knock-off, Staci. I saw those on the PB website a month or so ago and wondered who would actually pay for spray painted rocks when they'd be so easy to make. Great job! Thanks for joining in today. :)

Kim @ Starshine Chic said...

Turned out great. I just made me some knock off ones too. But I stole rocks from our yard & I did spray paint them with chalk board paint. I just haven't posted about them yet. But I love yours just as much. Even if they can't be erased.

Andi said...

Very clever! Gotta love the dollar store. I can spend so much money in there because well it's only a dollar :-) Looks like I may have to go back!

Jen @ EmbellishingLifeEveryday said...

What a fun idea! I have to do this!

http://embellishinglifeeveryday.blogspot.com/

Bonnie and Trish @ Uncommon Designs said...

I love this idea! You did such a good job. These would go great in my black and white bookcase for Halloween. Thanks for sharing!

Kelly said...

I just love this. Visiting from Be Differen...Act Normal's show and tell

Dawn said...

great idea-so cute-my girls would love writing on rocks themselves

Joni said...

Totally awesome idea.

Megandvd@Beauty in the Attempt said...

I ADORE this!!! Who needs chalk rocks when you can just paint the words on...and you don't have to worry about smudging. LOVE THIS!! I love an amazing PB knockoff...love it..love it..and will most likely...and shamelessly steal this idea. I this you are BRILLIANT!!

Cheers~
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