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I saw this on Facebook and it hit home so much I decided to Blog it. Thanks to Chris Davis, the person that created the list below has been found. Clicking on the image below will take you to original post by Keri Smith.

I saw over on Dawn’s Wacky Whimsy site that she had won an Amazon gift card just by making a wish in the comments section of a blog she visited. How is this possible you say? Well it seems there is a bit of magic in the world after all. Don’t burst the bubble naysayers…it’s magic, plain and simple.  The Fairy Hobmother is paroozing the interwebs and randomly picking wish makers comments to give them Amazon gift cards.

How friggin cool is this!! So the Fairy Hobmother seems to be associated with Appliances Online and if this is a marketing tool… oh how I bow to your greatness. Totally awesome is all I can say.

So lets see if some commenter’s can win… post a comment and tell us what you wish for.

The Chalkboard is finally finished and we got the tables mounted to the wall last weekend.
The magnetic Chalkboard still needs to have a wire hanger attached to the back, which I will be doing here shortly. The Skullery needs to be reorganized so I have better use of the tables, as you can see from the pictures. I have too much stuff!!!!

I started on the Chalkboard this weekend, that has been sitting for months. Awesome right? Well last week, while paroozing through Pinterest, I saw some craft rooms that I liked and it reminded me that I wanted to take the desk out of the craft room and put in a wall mounted work surface to make space.

My brain has been moving around the idea and I finally got the brilliant idea to take a kitchen table, cut it in half, and mount it to the wall. The two legs will support the front and then a 2 x 2, or whatever, will support it on the wall.
Awesome!! Now where do I find a kitchen table for cheap. When I say cheap, I’m talking under $50 bucks and the less the better.
I started watching Craigslist and found awesome decorative tables in the $100+ range. Noway can I afford that.  Today I check Craigslist before tackling the Chalkboard painting and Walla! Kitchen table, all wood, that was exactly what I was looking for. The best part? It was the type that has the built in leaf to extend the table. Which means it’s already cut down the middle!!! Wooo Hoooo!! Don’t have to cut it and try to get it straight, or take it to Da and Fama’s to do on the Table Saw. How much was it? $40 buckaroo’s and it came with two chairs. One chair is trash but the other is in good shape.

Here is what it looks like before it has been mounted in the craft room, which will have to wait until next weekend.

This is the table upside down so I can take off the leaf attachment.

Here is half of the table resting on the other half.

When mounted it should look something like this.

I love chalkboards, not the green ones, but the old school black ones. I’ve seen many chalkboards popping up that are old frames, etc., that have been turned into chalkboards, so I decided to give it a try.  My mom had a few large old frames that she had oil paintings in and I asked her to save them. I saw a Tut online for doing a magnetic chalkboard and thought it would make a great way to display the magnets I create. Magnetic chalkboard it is!

I didn’t want to use magnetic paint but instead wanted metal as a backer, mainly because it gives a stronger magnetic surface for magnets to stick to.

I found this Tut:
http://lessthanperfectlifeofbliss.blogspot.com/2011/02/magnetic-chalkboards-dos-donts.html

Here is the frame before I started, I will post pics as I go:

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is the title. It went on sale in June and can be found on Amazon. I won’t tell you what the story is about but instead you should watch this YouTube video. I fell in love with the decay in the video and only wish I could see it for myself…Belgium is so far away.

I’m playing around with Google+. As it becomes more available I will post my profile info so that you can Circle me. Heh…Circle me. Sounds a bit crude!

I have no clue how it fixed itself but it broke because I decided to add some security. Security that changes a bunch of file structures, changes that you should do when your first setting up the blog…not two years into it.

It would have gone smoothly if my permissions were set on my SQL database correctly. I called Lunarpages and they fixed the permissions for me. Got the website back but all the posts were gone. So I changed a file, added back in, broke it again. Changed the same file to how it should be, added it back in and Walla… it fixed itself…. not sure how, but it’s working.

Be back soon… I hope

I updated this here website’s header. Some of you may wonder what is going on, or that you like the other house better.

Here be the story… First of I found out that the house that I had used in the header was actually art done by an Etsy artist. I had found the picture online and when I found it there was no association to it being art and instead looked like clipart. Once I realized that it looked rather stolen, I set out to find a suitable house and instead made, from scratch, the house you now see on the site.

Reason number two… I will be opening a website called The Whimsy Attic for selling me art pieces and the occasional piece by my Mom. I wanted a tie in to Boo Spooky, so I decided to use the same house as the tie in. I’m still working on that website design…

Now the bummer… I ordered business cards for Boo Spooky and it has the old house on it. Heh! I think I will now order a new set of cards for The Whimsy Attic instead and put a note that states Boo Spooky as the blog. Or something….

Give me feedback on the new design. I take criticism well, so fire away.