Katie Kat Creates: Menu Board

Anyone who knows me knows that I am EXTREMELY indecisive when it comes to deciding on something to eat. Extremely. So I came up with a solution to the problem. A menu board. My cousin made one and I really liked how it turned out so I thought I'd give it a shot and gathered all my supplies:

Well, almost all my supplies. I made a few more trips up and down the stairs to get a hot glue gun and two empty crayon boxes. First I glued my scrapbook sheet of paper onto the foam board I had leftover from another project. I let that sit overnight to dry:

I weighed it down with a few things, and as you can see, our family enjoys candles :) My favorite is this one:

It's apple cinnamon and smells wonderful!! These candles have a cool story behind them too, you can check it out here. After letting the board dry, I folded the edges of the paper over and taped them to the back of the board:

This is the front at this point:

I then figured out where I wanted my ribbon on the board and made a small mark on the back/edge to line it up to. I taped the ribbon down as well:

Next I got out some brown scrapbook paper (sticking with the neutral color theme) and covered my crayon boxes. I added a bit of ribbon to them as well to jazz it up a bit. Just seemed too boring without anything on them :)

I lined them up where I wanted them on the board as you can see in the picture above and secured them to the board with packing tape as well.

Then I set to work on my clothespins to hold the menu choices on the ribbon. I was going to just hot glue them to the board, but it was pointed out to me that the clothespins might rip off if pressed too hard. So on the ribbon it is! I cut 7 rectangular pieces of brown scrapbook paper and 14 small squares of white paper:

On each strip of brown paper I marked where I wanted the white squares to go. I used two squares for each clip and I turned the top square so that its corners were on each side of the bottom square. I found these really cute stickers to put the days of the week on the papers (it would have driven me nuts if I wrote them when the menu choices are typed up...odd duck I know).

I put the stickers on each of the white pieces and they turned out like this:

Using some glue, I attached the white pieces to the brown rectangles and then the brown rectangles to the clothes pins:

I decided that I needed some way to hang my board up without putting a hole in my pretty little project (or the walls), so I used a hot glue gun to make a bow out of some ribbon. Cue the impatient wait for it to dry. I attached it to the back of my board. And then took it off. And reattached it. Over and over again until it was (to my mind) perfect. I may be a slight perfectionist. Maybe.