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Kitchen Menu – Project!

So I was lucky enough to have my kids AND my hubby home for Christmas break this year. I took the 2 weeks and worked on projects around the house that I have been putting off, or things that were bugging me and needed fixing.

One thing I have had for the past few years is a list of our dinners for a 2 week time span. I plan out meals to have and purchase groceries based on those meals, so when I go to cook I have what I need. Well I have always done this on a piece of paper ripped out of a notebook, sometimes the back of an old sheet of paper, all in all it’s always been real ugly! Then I had the great idea to fancy it up a bit! There is this amazing product out there, CHALKBOARD VINYL! Can you imagine the possibilities?! Um I have this stuff all over my house!! I even have a tupperware container with a piece on the top of it, so I can write little notes to my 1st grader in his lunch! I just wipe it off the next day and write a new one…back on track to my dinner menu.

Well at first I thought I will just stick a piece of chalkboard to my fridge, which is completely do-able…easy and works, but well I wanted a bit more. I have a grape themed kitchen. My kitchen is typically painted purple (and I LOVE it) and I have this awesome strand of grape lights that hubby hung around the top ceiling of the kitchen. So when I saw the amazing Wine Country kit from Aimee Harrison, well it basically looked like my kitchen so I had to have it! And this is how I fancied up my menu!

I made an 8 X 10 background using her fabulous kit, and while I was designing it I had a black rectangle on my canvas as well to show me where my chalkboard vinyl was going to go, once I was happy with it I deleted the rectangle and saved my background. I sent it off and had it printed at my local photo shop.

This is how it looked when I got it. Then I ran it through my laminator so that I could wipe it off easily and not ruin it. Once it was laminated I cut my chalkboard vinyl rectangle and carefully stuck it right on there! Then I hung it on my fridge and now I have a pretty menu display that works for us! I love how this project turned out, and I love even more how well it matches my kitchen! I am dreaming up new ways to incorporate this beautiful kit into my kitchen, I will be sure to share when I do! You can find Aimee’s kit HERE And you can find the chalkboard vinyl HERE.

Here it is all finished on my fridge, I spared you a photo of my whole fridge which is loaded with all sorts of pretty artwork from my babies!

I hope you enjoy this project and it inspires you to create your own menu planner using some chalkboard vinyl! You can never have enough of that stuff!

Amanda a.k.a A-Manda Creation

About the Author: Toiny

My name is Toiny (pronounced Twa-knee) and I am the Studio site owner and a Designer at heart. I especially love creating word arts and tools to help others create. I learned photoshop from my Father-in-Law while printing alien t-shirts for the tourists in Roswell, NM. Once I touched photoshop, I never let it go. It's a creative addiction! I currently live with four-out-of-six kids, my husband & two ornery cats in the Black Forest, Germany. Or as they say in German: Der Schwarzwald. I design under the name: Schwarzwald Design at the Studio.

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Carolyn 10 January 2013 at 11:33 am - Reply

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Kitchen Menu – Project!