Two Projects In One Post

Today is a twofer.  You know, two for one, or what me and my mom call: a twofer.  Two projects in one blog post! This is what happened.  Monday and Tuesday I spent all day both days furiously cleaning my house.  I'm not much of a neat freak, but I do get into these spells where I want my house spotless and tidy.  Over the weekend the inside of my house was hit by three tornadoes I was powerless to stop.  They were named Kenny, Connor, and Brad.  I've completely given up trying to do anything cleaning on weekends, it's like nailing jello to a tree, it's not going to happen.  So, after two days of the marathon cleaning I decided Wednesday I was going to do nothing except what I wanted.  I wanted to finish two projects I had started.  And that's what I did!

Project One: A picture of my boys.  There's really not a whole lot involved in this project.  Just picking out pictures, paper and any embellishments.  I got the idea from my mom, who got the idea from Pinterest.  She had shown my her completed project that was just adorable and I wanted to copy it.  Mine came out different than hers, but still the same basic layout.

So that was project one.

Project Two: Menu Board
Remember how much I love chalkboard paint? Well, I got it back out and made a menu board.  I was tired of calling my hubby and asking what he wanted for supper and getting one of two answers: 1) ah, I don't know, it don't matter (and then whatever I cook that wasn't what he wanted) or 2) I'm not really hungry, I probably won't eat. (Then when he gets in he's starving and wants some big supper) So I told him we would start working out a menu for the coming week, I would buy groceries accordingly and there would be no changes.  He agreed and I started looking for something I could use as a menu board.  Also remember how I'm a boarder line hoarder? Yeah, so I found the perfect thing that Brad has had since 2003.  Don't judge me.

This is a 2003 Thomas Kincade Framed Calendar.  It had six sheets you could slide in and out to change the months.  I had thrown the sheets away since they were out of date and Brad didn't want them anymore, but I hung on to the frame thinking I could use it again for something.  See, sometimes it's good to hang on to something for a while.


With it being so long and skinny I knew it would be perfect for a menu board.  So I painted the front of it with the chalkboard paint.  But it left a hole at the top where the sheets were slid in and out.  I want to fill that hole, it was driving me crazy.

 So what I did was pick out a font I really liked and printed the word Menu on a piece of paper

Then cut a piece of scrapbook paper to fit the hole.







Then I put the two pieces on my light board, the printed piece under the scrapbook piece.







Then I traced the letter onto the scrapbook piece.  I love light boxes, they sure make thing a lot easier.

So now I have this:

After I glued it to the back of the board to fit the hole, I have my finished project:

 Now we have a menu board and we've already worked out our first weeks menu.  By the way, those round magnets you see are part of my grocery list.  I'm still working on those and plan for those to be another project post.  But each one has the name of something in the fridge, when we run out, we move the magnet to the front of the fridge so on grocery day I can just write them down on my list instead of pawing through the fridge to figure what's missing.  Currently I have ten done, but plan to do more!

I hope you enjoyed this project twofer! I love making things, and sharing them with all of you! I hope you can use this to come up with your own ideas on something.  Until next time, Happy Crafting!