Old roof slates, brilliant things! They come pre-drilled, sometimes pre-broken into interesting and attractive shapes and you can write on them a la a Victorian schoolchild.
For some reason we have stacks of these (probably the same reason we have boxes of rusty metal and shoe lasts – AKA Interesting Things) so I grabbed the most attractive one, brushed off the dead spiders, knotted twine through the holes and hung it on a handy nail. Now I can write messages to myself in a more attractive way than using, say, a whiteboard *shudder*.
Beccy
P.s. I have nothing against whiteboards per se. I know there are probably thousands of attractive, useful, well made whiteboards in the world, but I’m a teacher. Enough said.
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Nifty! I love the slate tile! But where oh where to find slate roofing tiles in north central Texas? We have too many hailstorms to justify the expense of insuring a slate roof, so my house has fake slate tiles, made from recycled asphalt, fiberglass and some other mystery material that makes them hail proof.
ReplyDeleteI too, despise white boards. They get so grungy looking, and the smell of those markers...ugh!