How to Remove Ugly Marks From Your Dishes

About 8 months ago I splurged 
and ordered some new dishes.  

Sadly, they now look like this

 I remembered reading a tip long ago about using 

Bar Keepers Friend to remove the marks.  

It was certainly worth a try.

You can get it at WalMart.

At first it didn't work so well for me.  

I was using a cloth and it seemed like the progress was slow.  

I discovered that if I used my fingertips with just a 

small amount of water I got much better results.  

Can you see the difference?

I'm a happy girl!

Maybe everyone already knew this but me, 

but just in case - I thought I'd share since 

nothing else I tried worked this well.

Family Message Board With Cork And Chicken Wire

See this handsome kid?

Well......he is mine.  Would you believe this darned kid grew up, and we moved him to college about 2 weeks ago?  Honestly, this is the first I've been able to say anything about it because I've been kind of sad.  No......I really, truly have.  But, I'm adjusting.  Since he is living in a campus apartment and left his bedroom completely empty, we have been switching rooms around.  The silver lining - I now have 

a studio of my own to put all my machines and messes in!  Woot!  Woot! 

   

I'll show you pics of it when I get finished, but for today - I told you all of that so that I could get to this:  I stole our big message board for my new studio - so now we need another for the family.  LOL!  Here is what I came up with:

I took a frame, cut an old piece of white marker board to fit, turned it around, spray painted the back, glued a cork tile on the top, added chicken wire (for hooks and magnets), and..........voila!

I also added scrapbook paper painted with a chalk board medium (see my post here to learn more) to the cork tile.  It is only tacked on so I can change it with the seasons.

Since it is smaller than the one I stole, I can put it in a more convenient place.  I think everyone will see it here.  It works!