Message Board Archives - Yearning to Create

I made these wonderful Dinner Menu and Message Boards a while ago – you can read all about that here! Anyway, the boards are working exactly as I hoped they would – meaning that we use them all the time and are all getting trained to check them for messages. And there are no more annoying little pieces of paper floating around with messages on them, or no messages scribbled on that important paper I needed.

However, the colours weren’t quite working for me yet – probably because I got a huge book of lovely new scrapbook papers. I figured out that it was the pale yellow I didn’t like – so it was time to rip it apart!!!

After much deliberating, I chose this pretty light teal colour and simply glued it on over the yellow. (Yes, that is my bed I’m working on, mostly because my baby hasn’t figured out how to climb up on it so I can work in peace, not like at the kitchen table!)

Yes, I’m loving these colours much more – not that I have anything against yellow (unless I’m supposed to wear it – then I look jaundice!).

That “I Love You Message” has been on there for months. I can’t bring myself to erase it!!!

Notice the little strip of new paper right below the green – that’s over yellow too, and just ties the boards in nicely to each other.

And there are the two boards side-by-side.

And here they sit in my temporary kitchen – very convenient right by the phone.

And to wrap it up, I really recommend these boards!!! The Dinner board makes me plan ahead somewhat! (I can do better – notice the empty, unplanned spaces! I just find that my days go so much smoother when the dinner menu is already planned.) And the Message Board . . . let me compare it to Pinterest – how did I ever live without it???

In searching for ideas for our RS Super Saturday about two years ago, I found a menu board idea at Melanie’s Musings that I just had to copy. It seemed like such a great idea – and it is!!! And let me tell you, on days that I menu plan and write the meals on the board, life is so much easier!

We colour photocopied the inside page that I made, for ladies at the Super Saturday. Then they just had to take care of the framing. On the right is a list of possible menu ideas. I usually have that in a pocket glued on the back of the frame, and the clothes peg holds my shopping list.

Anyway, I love the Menu Board so much and it’s working so well, I decided to make something similar to become our family message board. I thought it would be very handy to have all the messages in one spot and not be losing little papers with phone messages written on them! And it is!!!

First item was to find a matching frame – thanks Walmart! I like the document size frame as it is slightly larger than an 8 x 10.

Then I centered the stickers saying Message Board. To do this, I marked the center of the glass (see my little black dot) and then worked from the center out to the edges. And I wrote out the words I was spelling so I wouldn’t mess it up!!!

Now, I used to have a burgundy and maple kitchen and this Menu Board matched it wonderfully. But, in the new house we’re building, I’m not going to have any burgundy on the main floor, so I needed to redo the colours of my board.

Pretty cute eh? By the oven mitt it says Quality Time. I really feel that supper is an important family bonding time. I believe that what our children really want for supper is us!

The next task was to design the Message Board to match the Menu Board because they will be side by side in my new house.

This is what I came up with . . .

It says “Family” there on the green paper.

I made five of these little message slots, and the long one across the bottom says “Notes”. The only rule we have is that the message can only be erased by the person who it’s for. And it’s so easy to erase – just a swipe of your finger across the glass (or you could use a kleenex!).

And there’s my two boards! I only attached a dry-erase marker to one of them because they are so close they can share. But I’ll probably add a clothes peg to the Message Board to hold things like birthday party invitations.