Hi Friends!
Do you know what
I normally do when I have left overs of some project? Another project! Some
weeks ago I painted and gave my office space a different aspect, with which I
am completely happy and in love with.
Abandoned on some
corner of my house, I had this cork board, useless and forgotten. So I thought
it could be a good ‘add’ to my new space, and that it would be nice to have
something cute in front of me to reminds me the important stuff.
What I don’t use to
pin on it are work things, don’t ask me why if this is a work space, right? I
prefer things that makes me happy when I look at them, things that inspire me
to keep going or things that remind me good trips, experience or people. For
work reminders I have my agenda, which, by the way, I don’t use as much as I
should (Did I mention some time how disorganized am I?).
Well, the cost of
this project was nothing, taking into account I already had all the materials
for another project. But, an estimation would be like 15 dollars or so
(including the cork, paint and all).
First of all, I
protected the edges with some tape to prevent painted them with the gold paint.
The pattern I did was completely random, because at first I wanted to make
something on my mind I wasn’t able to reproduce with the tape and I end up with
this... To keep the separation between lines even, I cut a piece of the tape
and use it as a separator.
I would like to
give an advice: the sponge brush wasn’t working very good on cork. If I had to
do it again, I would use a regular one. Just so you know :). I
let it dry for around two hours and then I gave another coat. Then, I let it
dry all morning long and, by the afternoon, I did the opposite: I protected the
cork base to prevent being painted with the white I used to paint the edges.
And that was all
y’all! It takes some time due the dry times, but it was really easy to make! And
if you have a forgotten or boring cork around the house, you can give it a totally
new look trying something like this.
Hope you have a
great week! Have fun with your projects :)
XOXO. Sara