The chalkboard is becoming more and more popular in modern interiors. Firstly, it is very convenient - by hanging such a board in the kitchen, you can write yourself short reminders of what to buy and what not to forget to do.

For a family with children, this is also an indispensable entertainment and your wallpaper will remain intact. Chalk boards are used to decorate parties and birthdays, adults also like to draw on it and leave wishes.

You can buy such a board ready-made and it costs from 10 to 100 dollars, but why? If you can simply make a chalkboard at home from any base and acrylic paint.

There are special paints - they are called “chalkboard drawing boards”, but you need to spend money on it.

  • The peculiarity of such paints is that they are the same acrylic, BUT they contain small solid particles that allow the chalk to linger on the surface of the board.
  • If you add any abrasive material to the paint, for example, gypsum, grout, cement - just its elements will make ordinary acrylic paint suitable for painting on it.
  • We offer the easiest master class for making such paint using alabaster and black acrylic.

Choice of base for the board

You can choose absolutely any basis, it can be:

  • Any plywood
  • Any piece of board, countertop or piece of old face
  • Mirror glass or
  • Cardboard - disassemble the old cardboard box and the base is done

Master class: how to make a board for drawing with chalk

The fastest easy way to make a board is to use any cardboard as a basis, it does not need to be processed before painting. In addition, having trained on it, you can already move to large surfaces.

Ingredients and Tools

  • 2 tablespoons alabaster
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 3 tablespoons black acrylic paint
  • cardboard
  • tassel
  • dry rag and chalk

Manufacturing process

  1. We take alabaster and water in a ratio of 1 to 2, mix and rub the lumps well until a uniform thick mixture is obtained.
  2. Pour the paint into the container. Paint should be 3 times more than alabaster. We introduce the prepared mixture of alabaster and water into the paint and mix thoroughly so that no lumps remain.
  3. If it’s not a pity and there is a technical nozzle, then you can do this with a mixer. So faster and more reliable. But if you stir with a spoon, not for long either - lumps will disperse in 2-3 minutes.

If the mixture is too thick, add a little more water, since acrylic paints from different manufacturers have different densities.

For durability, apply 3 coats of paint to the chalkboard. Let the paint dry completely between coats. After the third layer is dry, it is recommended to rub with chalk over the entire surface in order to harden it and then wipe the chalk with a dry towel.


TIP: Cardboard may sag slightly after paint is applied, but it will straighten out as soon as it dries.

Insert the cardboard into any frame from a photo or a picture and your board is ready!

Chalk board ideas

This master class can also be tried on for painting all or part of the wall. Such black drawing board walls are becoming a whole trend in the kitchen or in working area. But before painting, the wall must be processed, read in detail on this link.




DIY, DO IT YOURSELF!

Chalkboard is increasingly finding its way outside walls. educational institutions. Strict rules for the design of a classic school board have blurred, in their place have come interesting forms and decorative appearance. The chalkboard has become a part of the interior, allowing not only to decorate the room, but also to bring a useful component to it. Picking up on newfangled trends, designers began to widely use slate surfaces in their projects, photographers included chalk boards in the list of necessary props for photo shoots, calligraphers began to paint slate photo zones at weddings and presentations. Such a creative boom was due to a new look at the good old chalk board.

So I, imbued with this idea, decided to make a chalk board with my own hands. Only I could not find a special paint with the effect of a slate board. As often happens, if you light up some idea, you need to start implementing it on the same day. Patience is not enough, hands itch to get to work. I started looking for an alternative, as it turned out, there is a simple and a budget option, which I will talk about in today's master class.

To do slate board with our own hands we need:

Acrylic paint for wood;

Matte black (or other to your taste) acrylic paint for the working surface of the board;

White Spirit;

Fugue for tiles (grout for filling tile joints);

Electric jigsaw or hacksaw;

Construction primer;

Brush and foam roller for decorative paint;

Sandpaper;

Screw-ring, screws;

Baguette frame;

Twine (rope or lace).

Tip: To decorate a chalkboard, you need to find a base with a large flat surface on which we will apply paint. The basis can be a wall in a room, a kitchen cabinet door, a baguette frame with a back wall (back), a sheet of plywood or fiberboard.

An old baguette frame was found in the attic. According to the dimensions of the frame, the back wall is cut out of fiberboard (48x38 cm, thickness 0.5 cm). Since the baguette frame lost its pompous appearance from time to time, and the stucco molding partially fell off, it was decided to remove it and clean the frame of paint.

Gypsum stucco is well removed with a spatula, and old paintwork with sandpaper. We clean the plaster and paint, apply a primer to the cleaned surface. After the primer has dried, cover the frame with two layers of paint with an interval of 24 hours. It remains to decorate the frame itself. We take paint and a brush. With light strokes, without painting over completely, we apply paint to the surface of the frame.

After about forty minutes, we moisten the cotton wool with white spirit and erase with it those places that came out unsuccessfully when stained. You can also walk along the surface to be painted so that the unpainted areas acquire the shade of the decorated paint.

Leave the decorated frame to dry completely. Now it's time to work on the back wall, which will be the basis for the slate board. For reliable adhesion of the paint and the fiberboard sheet, we clean its smooth surface with sandpaper. Then we cover with a primer, after about an hour, we apply a base coat of matte acrylic paint.

We apply homemade slate paint on top of the base layer. In order to make a paint with a slate effect, we need the acrylic matte paint itself and a fugue (tile grout). We take 3 parts of paint and one part of the fugue (3: 1) and mix with each other until smooth.

Tip: In order to minimize the formation of lumps, add the fugue gradually while stirring the paint at the same time. Paint color can be chosen to your taste. If the paint is not light, then the chalk on it will also be clearly visible.

After the mixture of paint and fugue is ready, we roll it out with a foam roller on the surface of the future board. Roll out the paint evenly and in one direction with a roller. The roller needs to be pressed a little when rolling on the fiberboard in order to roll out small lumps and press the fugue particles into the paint. If you want the chalkboard to last for a long time, then cover the base of the board with at least 3 layers.

After the paint on the frame and on the base of the slate board has dried, we combine the frame and the back wall together and fix them together with clamps. On the reverse side, we mark the markings with a pencil, along which we will fasten the frame to the back wall with screws. We take a drill with a drill of a smaller diameter of the screw thread, drill holes and wrap the screws in them.

Tip: By screwing the frame to the fiberboard, we will get a gap between the frame and fiberboard sheet. Chalk dust will fall into the gap (where glass is usually inserted), which will prevent everything around from being stained with chalk.

Having decided in what position the board will hang (horizontally or vertically), we drill holes for fastening the screw-ring. A ring screw is a screw that has a ring instead of a head. Through this ring, you can thread a rope and hang the board on the wall. According to the thickness of the frame and fiberboard, we measure the length of the screw-ring so that when twisting it does not crawl out onto the front side of the baguette frame.

We clamp the ring screw in a vise along the measured length and bend it. Then we wrap the screw with the ring into the holes until the fold. We insert the rope into the rings and tie it - the chalk board is ready! With proper decoration of the baguette frame, the made coated board can fit into any interior.

Tip: To extend the service chalk board use soft crayons or a chalk marker.

In the way considered in today's article, if necessary, you can paint any objects and surfaces. With the help of colored crayons, you can create unique props for photo zones, wedding photo shoots and signs for messages to your loved one. If you cover a metal surface with homemade slate paint, then magnets can be attached to the chalkboard. Such a slate-magnetic board will be a great alternative to the refrigerator door. Housewives will appreciate the slate surface in their kitchen.

The chalkboard is great for a kid's room. On it, you can learn the alphabet, train to draw letters with chalk, draw and develop creative abilities in a child.

Such useful tool for recording will become an indispensable assistant in the workshop. It doesn’t matter whether it is sewing or locksmith, there is always a need to make a drawing that will always be in sight when doing work. The most important thing is that at any time you can make changes, erase everything and draw again.

The chalk board fits well into our interior and has become a good helper for organizing time and affairs. In addition, the home organizer from time to time becomes a message board.

The other day I got a large baguette frame from the attic, which I also plan to remake and hang in the room. What will come of this, you will find out in the next article. Subscribe to site updates, join groups on social networks, and you will be aware of new publications!

It is not always convenient to leave messages to your relatives on the phone. Imagine such a situation, a mother left early for work, and she wants to give certain instructions to her child. By sending a message to the phone, she can wake him up.

And sometimes you forget what you wanted to say.

DIY slate board

Making a slate board is very exciting and it is not at all difficult to make it.

The instructions described in this material will give you the knowledge of how to make a slate board yourself.

Materials such as:

  • one of the types of bases: a plywood board, a special sanded blank or a regular cutting board;
  • glossy acrylic paint;
  • a special powder that is used to grout tile joints;
  • brush for painting medium hardness;
  • a bowl for preparing paint for coloring the board.

The paint for the slate board is made according to a special recipe. If you start painting the board only with glossy acrylic paint without adding certain components, then all the work will be done in vain.

All because it is impossible to make inscriptions on this board. The recipe for making a coloring agent is as follows: in a bowl, mix the coloring agent with the mashing agent, observing the dosage - one share of the mashing agent for 1.5 cans of the coloring agent. Now you know how to paint the reminder board.

It is necessary to make paint strictly according to the instructions. Coloring should be done quickly and accurately. This is due to the fact that the paint with the above powder dries very quickly and bumps and lumps may remain.

After the board has been painted, it needs to dry thoroughly. Upon completion of drying, the board can be tested. Due to the fact that the surface of the board turned out to be rough, it is good to write on it with chalk. The inscriptions are quite clear and persistent. A do-it-yourself board can be many times superior to the store version.

When painting the board, you can safely experiment with color palette so you might end up with options like this:

  • gray slate board;
  • black slate board;
  • green slate board;
  • slate board white.

As you can see, it is not necessary to follow the classic black slate version.

How to make a magnetic chalkboard

Often, the store version of a magnetic slate board is much inferior in quality. Over time, it becomes more and more difficult to write on it with chalk.

The surface of the board deteriorates, as a result of which the chalk scratches the board and thus the inscriptions are harder to wash off.

Contrary to this, the situation can be corrected by making a magnetic board at home.

To make it, you will need materials such as:

  1. The foundation. The basis can serve as materials such as: chipboard, plywood with a thin layer, PVC.
  2. magnetic ground. It contains metallic particles.
  3. Slate effect paint.

You can make your own paint with the effect of a slate board.

You'll need:

  • latex paint - 1 glass;
  • cement - 2 tablespoons;
  • capacity;
  • large mixing spoon

IMPORTANT!!! Pay attention to the fact that there is no sand in the cement.

Cooking method

Pour two tablespoons of cement into a mixing container and mix with one glass of latex paint. We mix everything well. Paint is ready!

As for the manufacturing process itself of the above board, at the initial stage the board must be covered with magnetic soil. It should be noted that the primer is applied to a degreased surface. Magnetic primer should be applied in four layers. The more layers, the better the magnets will stick. Now you need to leave the board to dry for a whole day.

Then you can paint it. You need to paint with a special roller or brush.

The paint usually dries within one day. Further, the board can be safely tested and various magnets can be attached to it.

Magnetic chalkboard for children will be a real entertainment and a way to learn something new for yourself.

A magnetic slate board on the refrigerator will allow you to leave relevant messages to the household.

To date, the use of a slate board in the interior is enough creative solution, allowing you to bring some zest to the home atmosphere!

It is appropriate to use a slate board not only in a children's room so that small children do not paint the walls, but in other rooms the board will look great.

For example, as a place for reminders, such an interior element will look great in the kitchen.

Also, the board will refresh the design of the bedroom or living room due to the fact that on the board there is an opportunity to leave drawings in addition to notes.

The board, as a home decoration, is convenient because you can change the drawings in connection with a change in taste, mood.

Slate board in the interior of the kitchen

Coming to cafes, bars and restaurants, we often notice that there is a board hanging behind the cash register, where the menu or all possible promotional offers are written.

As a rule, such a board is somewhat reminiscent of the board that was within the walls of the school. To date, the slate board is one of the most original and beautiful ways tell about new dishes, novelties and promotions.

Have you ever thought about the fact that this idea can be borrowed for your kitchen? Just imagine how convenient it is!

On such a board, you can write all possible reminders, wishes about have a good day to their households. Also, you can write the menu on a slate board, write down current recipes and write to your husband about the purchases that he has to make in the supermarket. As you can see, there are a lot of advantages.

Also, shelves can be nailed to the slate board on which you can lay out jars of spices, exclusive homemade wines, and then sign the names of these products on the board. Looks very creative and beautiful! Also, on the board, you can leave drawings on culinary topics.

The slate board compactly fits into the interior of the kitchen, as it fills the wall space. In order to save space, the board can also be used as a hanger. Special hooks can be nailed to it and hung kitchen towels and kitchen apron. As they say, beautiful and useful!

Also, the board can be diversified by attaching magnets and stickers. If you study the reviews on the Internet about the slate board in the kitchen, you can once again be convinced that this attribute is very convenient.

The board can be placed not only on the wall, but also on the refrigerator, on the kitchen door.

Slate board for kids

A slate board on the wall in your child's nursery will come in handy! it universal way helping to kill two birds with one stone.

On the one hand, you instill a love for such art as drawing, and on the other hand, you will save a decent amount on repairs and thus make the interior of the room creative.

As for the design of the walls, you can decorate them either partially with a slate board or completely. If you decide to decorate all the walls with such a board, then choose a color of light colors.

The slate board in the interior of the nursery looks just great! The slate drawing board will delight them.

Such a board is also useful in that it can be used to awaken a child's interest in school and study. The child will be happy to play with you or other children in school.

In addition, when the child grows up a little and goes to study in the first grade, it will be much more interesting for him to learn lessons using a slate board. In addition, it is very convenient for parents, because it is much easier to explain on the board than in a notebook.

As mentioned above, the slate board can perfectly act as a decor for the interior of the house.

To date, there are a great many varieties of this board. The sizes are different. Also, there are planks in a frame, and without. They can be purchased both in a special supermarket and made by hand.

And most importantly: the board provides an opportunity to create, to show their creativity in any way.

A small slate board looks very nice as a picture in the living room or in the bedroom. On such a small board, you can create small pictures, funny illustrations that refresh any interior design.

A frameless slate board looks good in the kitchen.

There are curly slate boards.
Often, they decorate the living room, bedroom, children's room.

This type of plank can be placed above the fireplace, above the exquisite chest of drawers in the bedroom. It is worth noting that in addition to the children's room, you can completely decorate all the walls in the room with a slate board in the living room or in the office.

A certain charm and comfort of the room will be created.

Question answer:

How to remove chalk marker from chalkboard?
If the inscription that was made with a chalk marker is not erased from the slate board, then in this case it is necessary to use a melamine sponge.

How to remove chalk from a slate board?
You can erase chalk from a slate board with a regular sponge or with a felt sponge. Before you erase the chalk from the board, you need to make sure that the sponge is clean.

What kind of crayons can be used to draw on a slate board?
You can write on the board with thick crayons. It is desirable that they write softly and have a bright shade, so the inscription will be clearly visible.

What is the difference between a slate board and a chalkboard?
The slate board differs from the chalk board in that it is processed with special paints and materials, due to which the inscription looks brighter, clearer and more beautiful.

How to make a beautiful inscription on a slate board?
In order to beautifully make an inscription on the board, you must use high-quality crayons or a chalk marker. The crayons should not crumble, but at the same time they should write softly.

Now you know how to properly make a slate board at home without spending extra money.

Now you can easily decorate your home interior and thereby surprise family and friends.

Slate paint is a great option for creating a stylish, modern interior. Elements with such a coating will be appropriate almost everywhere - from a child's room to a solid office. Recently, they have become a real design trend!

But the use of unusual paint in the interior is justified not only in terms of design. Slate surfaces are also very practical. They help a lot in raising children, in communicating with family, in work, and just in everyday life.

These paints are popularly called chalk paints. They create a durable matte, slightly rough coating on the surface, on which you can write with chalk. The effect is like that of a familiar school board, only much better.


Modern slate paints are distinguished by high performance characteristics:

  • create a very hard, abrasion-resistant coating;
  • have high adhesion;
  • do not give shine at all (drawing on such a surface is a pleasure);
  • after drying - fireproof and non-toxic, suitable for use in children's rooms;
  • easy to clean with soapy water (removing a boring chalk drawing is not a problem at all);
  • easy to apply and dry quickly.

On a note! Slate paints are sold in cans (for applying with a brush or roller) and in spray cans (for easy coloring of geometrically complex surfaces).


Manufacturers offer ready-made emulsions of the most different colors. So, Siberia paint is available in gray, burgundy, brown, black and dark green. Tikkurila offers those wishing to tint a colorless base in one of three hundred shades of the corporate palette. And Rust-Oleum has a generally transparent slate finish. It can be applied to any colored surface in the house.

What to paint under the slate

Slate paints can be used throughout the home:

  1. In the nursery. If you install a large board here or paint over a whole wall under the lead, the children will have a place to create and learn. And the rest of the walls in the house will be completely safe.
  2. In the kitchen. Separate slate boards look very nice here, kitchen aprons, painted doors kitchen cabinets. You can write down recipes, menus, reminders, shopping lists, and simply declarations of love for each other on them.

    Important! Some paints will discolour from hot grease, so you don't want to use them near a stove.

  3. In the hall. At front door it is convenient to leave messages at home about what to do or take when leaving the house. And next to a landline telephone, a slate panel will replace a notebook.
  4. For decorating individual items. Slate kitchen trays look great, cutting boards, large dishes, tags on jars for cereals and flowerpots with seedlings, etc.

A variety of materials are painted under the stylus:

  • wood, chipboard, MDF, fiberboard;
  • metal;
  • plaster;
  • drywall;
  • brick;
  • glass;
  • ceramics.

All slate paints are intended for internal works. They do not tolerate low temperatures.

Coloring technology

Slate paint is very easy to use. Everyone can paint a wall or make a pretty DIY whiteboard.


The coloring procedure is as follows:

  1. The surface to be painted should be cleaned of old coatings. If necessary, it is leveled with putty or rubbed with emery, and then washed from dust and dried.
  2. In order for the paint to lie evenly, the surface under it is primed and dried. Ideally, you should use a special primer for slate paints.
  3. To create a neat slate rectangle on the wall or refrigerator door, the surface is pasted around the perimeter with masking tape.
  4. The emulsion is well mixed and applied in several layers. Each layer must dry completely before the next one is applied. Painting should be done in a ventilated room with an air temperature of +10°C and a humidity of up to 85%.

    Advice! Slate paints dry quickly, so you need to work with them quickly.

  5. 24 hours after applying the last layer, calcium carbonate chalk is rubbed into the dried surface. The excess is wiped off with a soft cloth.
  6. It remains to wait another 48 hours until the emulsion is completely cured, and the board or wall can be used for its intended purpose.

Wash the slate surface with soap or other household chemicals can be only a month after staining.

Factory emulsion is sold in cans and jars of 0.5 and 1 l. But many simply do not need such an amount of material. In this case, slate effect paint can be made by hand. It's much cheaper.

First way

All you need is:

  • Any acrylic paint - 1 cup.
  • Cement (ordinary "clean" or any cement mixture) - 2 tablespoons.

The ingredients are thoroughly mixed - and inexpensive slate paint is ready.

On a note! Dolomite or marble chips are added to the factory paint. A homemade mixture on cement will not give such a durable coating. She'll scratch faster.

The most difficult and interesting thing in this matter is to choose the color of the emulsion. Many people do not like traditional dark shades. In this case, you can use other colors on which the chalk pattern will be visible. Light, faded, pastel shades excluded immediately. But on a bright background, drawing will be almost as convenient as on a dark one. Fine options are bright red, rich purple, grass green, deep blue.


slate wall does not have to be black, any color of saturated tones can be used for coloring

It will turn out very interesting if you use several slate panels of different colors in the interior at once.

Second way

Before you make slate paint according to this recipe, you should make sure that everything you need is already in stock. If you have to buy each ingredient, then it may be cheaper to purchase a ready-made factory emulsion right away.

To prepare about 50 ml slate paint you will need:

  • 3 art. l. acrylic paint of the desired color;
  • 1 st. l matte acrylic varnish;
  • 1 st. l. (without a slide) cement, cement putty or grout for ceramic tiles;
  • 1 st. l of water.

First, grout powder or cement is placed in the container - it will provide a rough surface. Then paint is added, which will give the finished mixture desired color, and varnish (it will make the emulsion more plastic). Now it remains to pour in water and mix everything very carefully.

Important! The mixture must be well mixed. If there are lumps in the mass, they will spoil the painted surface.

Do-it-yourself slate paint is applied in the same way as purchased. She is given time to dry and harden before applying the chalk drawings.

Do not forget about the careful operation of finished surfaces. Despite the high wear resistance, slate panels are easily scratched by hard, sharp objects. Therefore, it is not recommended to draw on them with cheap "school" chalk mixed with sand and pebbles. And if you use soft crayons and erase drawings with a soft wet cloth, slate coatings will decorate the interior for a long time and serve as a convenient field for creativity.

How to make a fashionable element of any interior and holiday yourself, and even 4 times cheaper than from a store? And we are silent about lettering.

We asked to teach us lettering and preparation of chalk boards Alexey Koval, creator of the Minsk Schools of typography. Aleksey creates fonts, teaches adults and children to write beautiful letters, and invites foreign calligraphers to Minsk.

WHAT HOW MUCH

Tablet 40x50 cm - 70,000 rubles.
Paint for chalk boards (100 g) - 35,000 rubles. (about 300,000 rubles per liter)
Crayons (packing) - 10,000 rubles.
And one more thing: a roller or a brush, a sharpener or a knife, a damp cloth.

DYE

Most cheap option - make paint by yourself. In one of the "Apartment shootings" architect Tatiana, how to do it: mix black acrylic with a fugue. Ordinary acrylic will cost you 50,000 rubles. per jar, but the surface is grainy and the chalk grinds off very quickly. Still on sale vinyl film for chalk boards. She can close absolutely any surface, but it looks unnatural - chalk leaves a very clear mark on it.

The cheapest option is to buy spray paint for a chalkboard, in building hypers it is sold for a hundred and kopecks of thousands of rubles. We chose convenience and touched on the future, we bought can of special paint: open it will be stored for a year, so you can paint everything. More special paint washes better. Now there is not only black, but also other colors. Such a can of paint is enough for 18 m 2 - not only a board, but a wall can be painted! Shake it well before you start.

WHAT TO COLOR

Can buy cardboard stretcher(about 30,000 rubles), you can use a canvas stretched on a frame (although it bends - it’s not very convenient to draw). plywood tablet 40x50 cost 70,000 rubles. - it will turn out a decent board. The larger the format, the easier it will be to work.

Another option - building stores now do free plywood cutting. When you need a lot of boards, you can take a large sheet of chipboard and cut on the spot. This option is good for small jobs, because in large formats, chipboard will be slightly curved. It is possible and make your own plywood different forms - like a god for the soul to cut out of scraps. But you need a jigsaw.

To prime or not to prime is a matter of having money and time: in principle, the paint lays well even without a primer.

WHAT TO COLOR AND HOW LONG TO DRY

Ideally you should buy the best roller in the store, it’s better to ask a consultant, it will cost about 25,000 - 45,000 rubles. Can also be painted with a brush. The better you shake the paint, the better the result will be. On the bank it is written that it is recommended to start painting 24 hours after application, but in fact it is possible earlier. We waited three hours, painting over 3 layers. It is better not to be stingy, put 2-3 layers.

CHOOSE CHALK

Many people remember the 1990s, when pressed gypsum appeared in schools instead of normal chalk - it sometimes creaked disgustingly on the board, so some teachers bought and carried normal soft crayons with them.

Yes, chalk is real (10,000 rubles per pack), and there is pressed gypsum - it is cheaper and harder (up to 5,000 per pack). It is better to buy thinner crayons - we sell Giotto and Maped. There are also greasy crayons, called "sols". They give a bright color. There are also chalk markers.

Chalk is best sharpened - with a sharpener or a knife. You will also need a rag.

BASIC TECHNIQUES IN LETTERING

You can do the usual strokes and build up myasko-vertical thickenings, drops on this skeleton. You can add shadows, additional strokes, volumes, highlights, shading, tint some of the letters.

There are two approaches - super-perfectionism and bluff, and everyone chooses for themselves. When Igor Mustaev came last year with a master class, he said that colored chalk mixes well: you apply one, the second, then rub it.

Ribbon version - when we first write a letter and begin to draw a ribbon in two contrasting colors - we need to show how it would wrap. Great brain workout! One color for vertical strokes, another color for connecting strokes.

You can work with your handwriting - just write like on the board at school, and then add beauty. You can hide everything with color. If the letters stick together, then we can make a shadow or shading where there is a lot of space. First we make a parallel contour, then hatching, you can add all sorts of strokes.

Here's another interesting trick: we mark the format into segments according to the number of letters - we start drawing a line from the edge and write small letters at the marked points, connecting them with a long line. In any case, it is better to count the letters, estimating from the middle.

HOW MUCH SAVE

In the store you can buy a green board in an aluminum profile, larger than ours, for 120-150,000 rubles. But she doesn't look very good. Prices on the Internet for the same board as we did, up to 400,000 rubles. We spent 105,000 rubles on the board, almost 4 times cheaper!

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        In your articles, it is your personal attitude and analysis of the topic that is valuable. You do not leave this blog, I often look here. There should be many of us. Email me I recently received a proposal in the mail that they would teach me how to trade on Amazon and eBay. And I remembered your detailed articles about these auctions. area I re-read everything again and concluded that the courses are a scam. I haven't bought anything on eBay yet. I am not from Russia, but from Kazakhstan (Almaty). But we also do not need to spend extra. I wish you good luck and take care of yourself in Asian lands.

  • It's also nice that eBay's attempts to Russify the interface for users from Russia and the CIS countries have begun to bear fruit. After all, the vast majority of citizens of the countries of the former USSR are not strong in knowledge of foreign languages. English is spoken by no more than 5% of the population. More among the youth. Therefore, at least the interface in Russian is a great help for online shopping on this trading platform. Ebey did not follow the path of the Chinese counterpart Aliexpress, where a machine (very clumsy and incomprehensible, in places causing laughter) translation of the product description is performed. I hope that at a more advanced stage in the development of artificial intelligence, high-quality machine translation from any language into any will become a reality in a matter of fractions of a second. So far we have this (profile of one of the sellers on ebay with a Russian interface, but an English description):
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