My New Menu Planning Board

I don’t consider myself to be really crafty.  My projects probably look a little cheesy next to some of these gals but I have my fun, so bear with me. 🙂

I’ve been doing some changing around here, changing the living room and now working on the kitchen.  I’m just that way – Rearranging the furniture is my favorite thing but because of the layout of our rooms sometimes it just doesn’t work.  So occasionally I just change out little decorations but I’ve even hit a snag with that in the last year or maybe even longer.  I’ve had no inspiration.  No enthusiasm or interest.

Then I was inspired by… I’m not sure what. 🙂

But I did start thinking about having a kitchen command center.

I decided I didn’t really need the whole command center idea but maybe just a place to put notes/pictures.  That idea metamorphosed into a menu planning board.

I love it.

How I did it. I took foam board and cut it to the size I wanted, covered it with burlap, hot glued it and then placed black ribbon around the edges as a little decoration.  Eeeassy.  The first rule when I go to tackle a craft project?  It has to be easy. 🙂

I’ve uploaded a menu planner I made which you can get here if you think it might be useful for you.  On the planner there’s a place for you to write what groceries you need as well as a place to write any prep work you should do the previous day.

I also saw this idea for a magnetic menu board which I think is a great idea, too.  A girl and a glue gun has an actual tutorial on how to make it.

So many great ideas out there!