chalking it up

I've got this jar of chalkboard paint sitting around from a couple of projects I did, so I wondered how the paint would work on a plate. I read it needed a porous surface. Not sure pottery is porous but I found a cheap plate I had been planning to paint and decided to paint it, but with chalkboard paint rather than my original plan. So far so good.

I put it in the kitchen just to assure those that may wonder if a meal is coming. Sometimes it gets close to dinner hour and the kitchen is still lifeless. Eventually a meal appears in some fashion or another.

I love the cutting board the plate holder is resting on. My dad made it for my mother when they were newly married 66 years ago. I think the rim was painted orange originally. My mom used it most of her cooking years and I took it over about 15 years ago. I love it because it speaks to me ... all the crevices and scratches and the worn look of it. The stories that are hidden in that board. Just think of the conversations that have occurred as women folk (mostly) prepared meals. If this ol' cutting board could talk ... the stories she'd tell.

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