Science Rules!

Teach science? Love science? Well, here are some great science clip art images for you! These would be great to add to a worksheet, presentation, or paper that your student may be completing. Also, these images are very versatile so they could be used for more than just science! Check out my store, Room 28, and take a look!

Commercial Use Halloween Borders and Background!

Check out my store Room 28 on Teachers Pay Teachers for these awesome Halloween themed borders and backgrounds!

Annie Sloan...meet the bathroom!

A few months ago, my husband and I bought a place in the Columbus area.  When we purchased it, it was totally still in the 1980s and honestly it still is.  My first task over Christmas break was really to paint the whole house, but after painting half the house (including two ceilings...that's a story in itself), I was exhausted and tired of looking at paint for a while.  Anyways, I'm not sure if you are familiar with Annie Sloan paint or know anything about her products.  Well, this past Christmas I thought I should give her products a try. There is a store near my parents house, Pottsies which I absolutely love! They have amazing little goodies and all the furniture they paint with Sloan's paint looks amazing!  So I bought a can of the white (Pure) and a grayish color (French Linen) along with the wax and a few brushes.  After using her products, I am still not sure about them.  I found it very difficult to paint with and it took a lot of time! Also,  I found her products to be very expensive. I don't if I didn't paint right or what...but I would like to give her products another chance before this paint and I are no longer friends. On on good note, I will say that the paint was very easy to clean up and if I made a mistake, it came right off with water!

Anyways, I decided to paint my half bath vanity with her products.  I thought at first I would do the base gray and the cabinets white, but I honestly didn't like the look of it and just painted the whole thing white. 

So the first step was to remove hardware from vanity and wash all the doors down (I just used soap and water). Then, I just started painting! After about 4 coats, yes it seemed like forever, it was looking pretty good! A little antique but yet very clean!  Once everything dried, I reattached the doors to the cabinet and waxed the entire vanity.


About 48 hours later, my husband buffed the cabinet to make it super shiny. Then, I was able to attach the adorable new hardware my husband and I picked out from Anthropologie! On a side note...if you have never been to Anthropologie...you need to go!





Here are some picture of the bathroom before and and after.

The color that I chose I ended up going with was Benjamin Moore's Antique Jade (on right).

Here is the vanity before....