New water heater!!

Ok, not something usually to be celebrated, but today, I'm excited because we got a new water heater!!  Well, not really excited about  the new one as much as I'm excited about what I did with this part of the old 

one!

 This is the nasty drip pan that we took off of the old water heater.  (At 8pm on a Saturday, not the best timing for this thing to go out!!)

At first I thought it would be awesome as a magnet board, I like magnets, but it's aluminum, so I decided to do plan B.  Chalkboard!!  I've never tried chalkboard paint and it looks fun, so here we go!!!

 First I removed the plastic threading that connected it to the water heater, it left a nice hole on one side, then onto intense, muscle powered cleaning, this thing was nasty, then the primer, just a few coats of the cheapo walmart kind.

THEN, onto three different stores before finally finding a can of chalkboard paint!!  Thank you Home Depot. It got two coats of Rustoleum Chalkboard paint then left for 24 hours to dry.

 Finished painting, it's enormous, seriously, I should have thought about the size first, where to put it??

 I found this pretty burlapish ribbon, and ran it through the ready made hole.

It doesn't hang flat against the wall, gotta fix that, AND after rubbing it all over with chalk, like the can said to, it wouldn't get back to black clean looking.  So, I like it, but not in love.  Yet.

I do love that the chalk sits nicely in the rim :)

OH, where to put it???

Linking up!