, like I did in Kennedy’s room and then applied 2 coats of the Veil over the top of the table.. Here’s how it turned out!.

The other day I picked up two new knives on sale and they were both in clamshell packaging.I opened the first one up, the whole time thinking how ridiculous it was that I was using one sharp object (scissors) to try to get at another sharp object (the knife), all while creating a third sharp object (the sharp edges of the plastic).

And I could have slipped at any moment because cutting through that hard plastic with my kitchen scissors was definitely a struggle.It was particularly ridiculous because I’ve cut myself pretty badly in the past doing exactly the same thing!So that was enough excitement for me for one day and I left the second knife in its packaging..

The next day I picked up a baby thermometer at the store and it was in the same packaging.Don’t worry, no one was sick, I think I just left my old one on a hotel bathroom counter somewhere at some point this Summer and it’s something I like to always have around.

After going through that same struggle I thought “There has to be a better way!!”.

I put on my thinking cap and grabbed the second new knife, the one that was still in the packaging, to do some experimenting.. My first thought was to find some garden pruners so I went out to the mud room where we use.I had no idea what I was going to put there, but I knew it was too big to leave blank.

I’ve also been a little concerned that it was going to look too new in here and not “farmhousy” enough with all of the new stuff I’ve been buying and planning to buy.. Of course… of COURSE, the solution was right under my nose, using things I already had on hand, and completely free!Isn’t that always the way?.

I gathered a bunch of stars from around the house that I had, but wasn’t too excited about any more.Kennedy’s joke is always that if something is a dark color, I will always paint it white and stick it on the wall.