The Non Clutter Lover Mom

It has been a while since my last post again hasn't it! When you have kids, time seems to just evaporate! I finished this project (#5) quite a while ago, just haven't managed to find the time to sit and blog about it. But here I am, and here you go! :)

While wandering around Hobby Lobby a while back, I saw these cute bulletin boards. I have seen them at a lot of different stores but until recently never really had any use for one in my home.

Let me start by saying I adore my daughter to pieces! I love every single piece of artwork that she does, and I love even more how proud of it she is. She always lights up after showing me her latest creation and I give her the reaction of "lets hang it on the fridge!" Okay, now all the warm fuzzies aside, I do not like anything hanging on my refrigerator! I do cherish her work, so whats a non clutter lover mom to do? Here was my solution! Make her a special board all for her, where we can hang pictures of her friends, the never ending amount of artwork, church projects and so on.

My husband went to Home Depot and bought me a huge piece of sturdy wood and cut it down to the size I wanted and then even routered the edges to make it look great! Using my staple gun I wrapped the board in some quilt batting and stapled it tight. Then I did the exact same thing with the fabric.

I chose some blue ribbon that I thought would look good with the kitchen wall. Pulling it tight and stapling it, I was almost finished! At all the intersecting ribbons I simply hot glued some buttons.

Now I know most people may not mind the unfinished back to this, (who will ever see it right?) but I like to have my projects looking as complete as possible. (You don't buy it in the store with an unfinished back right?) That being said, I bought a sheet of black felt and cut it to fit the back and hot glued it in place. I think it looks better, dont you?

In our kitchen we have these photos of the kids hanging up with ribbon. I thought it would be nice to keep it consistant, so I also hung her board up with the same ribbon.

Here is the final product! Lola has her own table in the kitchen, so now with her new bulletin board it is just a little more defined as her space! She loves it, and I love it because my refrigerator is neat and tidy, and I still get to enjoy my girls masterpieces! : )

Total this project cost around $15. I used mostly stuff I already had around the house. When I look at all the tiny boards they are selling in stores they are priced around $28 and they are barely a third of the size. This was a super quick and easy project, it literally took me longer to figure out how to reload the staple gun than it took me to actually make the whole board! :)