{"id":1059,"date":"2015-09-25T16:55:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T22:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:44:19","slug":"alphabet-magnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/2015\/09\/alphabet-magnets\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet Magnets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fridge at my previous house — lots of magnets!<\/p><\/div>\n

Anyone who has been to my house knows that I love refrigerator magnets! My magnet collection is quite extensive — I have magnets from various countries we’ve visited, theme parks (mostly Disney ones!), broadway shows (e.g., Les Miserables, Wicked), National Parks, favorite restaurants, quotes, bottle caps, and so on. I also have a set of magnetic poetry and two sets of alphabet and number magnets.<\/p>\n

At my old house my fridge (right) was pretty much covered in magnets. This was entertaining for me, but let’s be honest – it was pretty cluttered…<\/p>\n

At my new house I have tried to keep my fridge a little more refined by only displaying some magnets at a time and rotating through my collection. Due to this attempt to be a little more grown up, since we moved in I have hardly used my alphabet magnets because they seem so wild on the fridge with all of their different colors. But having the alphabet around is so fun! So when I saw a pin on pinterest about painting alphabet magnets<\/a>, I knew it was something I needed to do!<\/p>\n

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I decided to paint my two sets of alphabet magnets red! I use red as a fun accent color in my green and beige kitchen, so I thought it was the perfect choice. Matt had also requested a “fun” color! I picked up a can of plastic friendly, red, glossy spray paint and I got to work.<\/p>\n

I was concerned about if the magnets would stick to whatever surface I painted them on, so I put them on a sheet of wax paper to paint them. This worked very well. The paint did get all over the wax paper, but the magnets just lifted right off the wax paper! I did a couple coats of paint… it was hard to get in a few of the small corners, so I moved around a lot when painting to try to get at those spots from different angles. I’m sure my paint job isn’t perfect, but they look good enough for me!<\/p>\n

\"PaintingMagnets\"<\/a>Painting them only took a few minutes and was pretty easy. Probably the hardest thing was laying them out before painting them! Also, I had been painting some other things too, so by the time I got around to the magnets, my right arm was actually shaking a little bit from all of the (oh-so-very) hard work of spray painting..! But aside from that, this really was a very simple project!<\/p>\n

Now the magnets are finished and they are so happy to be back in my kitchen ready to be used!<\/p>\n

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I also decided that when not in use, extra letters and numbers should live in a bowl somewhere in the kitchen instead of the front of the fridge itself. My mom does this and I think it helps to contain the cluttered look quite a bit! Thanks for the inspiration, Mom!<\/p>\n

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Now, what fun messages should I spell out on the fridge today?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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