Repurposed widow to dinning room decor

I am so excited about this window. I bought four of them for $40 off craigslist (that's a whole other story). With all of the repurposing going on in my area, that is an excellent price for for great old windows. Here is one of them before. 

They are all four are exactly alike and I'm going to show you the process of how I repurpose each one of them to hang in my home. 

So let's get started. 

First something you should know about me is I like to do things the easiest way possible. Which means I'm wasn't very excited about sanding and prepping this window. Of course I'm not a total slob, I did tape and clean the window before painting. This is a view of the back, which was already painted white. 

 So after doing some research I decided I wanted to use chalk paint. Now again being frugal, as I like to call it, I decided the best route would be to make my own chalk paint. I found this page to be most helpful. Now for this project I used the layered look. I started with a sample paint I bought from lowes, (which was not chalk paint). Next I layered on some paint that I had left over from "the drama queens" room, made into chalk paint. 

Then, you guessed it, more layering. I bought another sample paint from lowes and turned it into chalk paint using the recipe mentioned above. 

After layering on the touquise and red and black,  I wanted the finished look to be crackle. So I made my own crackle. So I layered on the Elmer's glue as I learned in the tutorial here. 

Then after it dried to a tackiness I painted it black. Here's the finished look. 

Next it was time to add my quote!! Exciting, right? Actually this, for me is most challenging because I want to just slap it on, but everything needs to be measured and planned out. This is the lettering I bought from Hobby Lobby. 

I liked everything about this except I wanted it to say Amen at the end. So I decided to match the font I would free hand the words "Bless" and "Amen". And by free hand I mean...

I used my iPad under the window, brilliant right?? So I used a glass marker to trace the word. 

Then I used a glass paint to smooth it out. I used this technique on both the "Bless" and "Amen". 

  

On a side note, I used a dry erase marker and a ruler to mark where all the words should go.

The fished project...

And I finally got it hung up!!

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Ok seriously going to blog routinely now..... Well maybe

So I've never been awesome at routinely blogging, updating my Facebook status, tweeting or posting to Instagram, but I'm going to give this a shot...... Again!

We have recently moved (July on 2014) that's recent right? We found our very basic dream house, and with my handy hubby's help and Pinterest we are working on making it everything we've really ever dreamed of. 

God has blessed us, in that while all the girls are at school I am still able to stay home, I'm not a perfect house wife and I don't always have the house immaculate the dinner ready by the time my man gets home, but I really do love being able to stay home, although I'm not always there. 

I have been motivated lately to decorate my very bare walls! Before we sold our last house I had almost every inch of it decorated just how I liked, and now only some of the old stuff fits in the new house. I am a newly self proclaimed DIYer. I most often will go to my local hobby lobby (which I love) and think I could buy that but I would have to change a few things and then I just think it would be easier to do it myself (and cheaper). Thus starts a vicious cycle of endless projects, which I'm hoping to showcase here!! 

Here is a picture of where we started!! But just the outside, (because not much has changed here) the inside is where the real fun begins!!

So let's get started, shall we?