My {NEW} Menu Board

 

*Disclaimer:  I received a free DecoBoard in order to write this post. This post is written by me.  All opinions are 100% mine.  You can read my advertising & disclosure policy HERE.

I am an avid menu planner.  I have self-proclaimed OCD when it comes to organization & cleanliness, so I am a planner by nature & I ALWAYS have a list for anything & everything.  Meal planning is huge for me because I hate to do things on a whim, especially cooking dinner.  I like to know what I am making, so I can plan my grocery shopping (which has it's own list), & then I know what meat to pull from my freezer the night before so it's thawed & ready to cook the next night for dinner.  My menu planning also helps me prepare my blog posts so I can fit them into our regular meal times or busy schedule.

I love the stress-free nature of cooking dinner when it is all planned & prepared for.  Up until now I have been using just a piece of paper from a notebook, & then I upgraded & got this little notepad from my mom that has a magnet on the back so it sticks to my fridge, but it's still not the cutest thing to write my menu on.  But then again, I didn't really care about how it looked until now.



DecoBoards Unlimited helped sponsor my group giveaway a couple weeks ago & offered each of us bloggers a free board to try out.  Oh man!  I was so excited!  I knew that I would be using it for this menu board.  I probably should have played around the site more because I found out they have these cute Menu Clings.  I totally should have ordered one!  

Anyway, I ordered the Solid Steel Magnetic Dry Erase Board, picked one of the backgrounds from their gallery (or you can totally upload your own photo--how cool is that?) and wrote out the days of the week with a cute colored font.  

When I got the board (it took a while, not sure what the hold up was, but it was worth it) the board was shipped really well.  They ensured that thing was not going to get broken.  I kind of had to work to get the cardboard corners off because they were staple gunned on, for protection, obviously.  I was so anxious to get it out of the wrapping, I almost forgot to take pictures!

These boards are absolutely well-made!  Like great quality, solid boards.  The frame is even kind of antiqued with the edges sanded a little bit (which is hard to tell from the pictures.)  Adorable!  It's almost too pretty to write on, almost.  The board came with a magnetic dry erase marker with an eraser on the lid & mounting brackets which were super easy to hammer into the frame right where I wanted them.

Once I hammered my brackets on the back, I nailed some holes in the wall, hung my beautiful board & moved my menu over from my ugly notepad to my cute new board.  I LOVE IT!  

If you are thinking of a great gift for someone, personalize a board & give it to them, or just buy one for yourself...you know you want to!

*These boards are easy to clean too.  Just use dry erase marker cleaner & a microfiber cloth or 90% Isopropyl Alcohol.  (These instructions are on the back of the board, so you never forget.)

 

*Disclaimer:  I received a free DecoBoard in order to write this post. This post is written by me.  All opinions are 100% mine.  You can read my advertising & disclosure policy HERE.

I am an avid menu planner.  I have self-proclaimed OCD when it comes to organization & cleanliness, so I am a planner by nature & I ALWAYS have a list for anything & everything.  Meal planning is huge for me because I hate to do things on a whim, especially cooking dinner.  I like to know what I am making, so I can plan my grocery shopping (which has it's own list), & then I know what meat to pull from my freezer the night before so it's thawed & ready to cook the next night for dinner.  My menu planning also helps me prepare my blog posts so I can fit them into our regular meal times or busy schedule.

I love the stress-free nature of cooking dinner when it is all planned & prepared for.  Up until now I have been using just a piece of paper from a notebook, & then I upgraded & got this little notepad from my mom that has a magnet on the back so it sticks to my fridge, but it's still not the cutest thing to write my menu on.  But then again, I didn't really care about how it looked until now.



DecoBoards Unlimited helped sponsor my group giveaway a couple weeks ago & offered each of us bloggers a free board to try out.  Oh man!  I was so excited!  I knew that I would be using it for this menu board.  I probably should have played around the site more because I found out they have these cute Menu Clings.  I totally should have ordered one!  

Anyway, I ordered the Solid Steel Magnetic Dry Erase Board, picked one of the backgrounds from their gallery (or you can totally upload your own photo--how cool is that?) and wrote out the days of the week with a cute colored font.  

When I got the board (it took a while, not sure what the hold up was, but it was worth it) the board was shipped really well.  They ensured that thing was not going to get broken.  I kind of had to work to get the cardboard corners off because they were staple gunned on, for protection, obviously.  I was so anxious to get it out of the wrapping, I almost forgot to take pictures!

These boards are absolutely well-made!  Like great quality, solid boards.  The frame is even kind of antiqued with the edges sanded a little bit (which is hard to tell from the pictures.)  Adorable!  It's almost too pretty to write on, almost.  The board came with a magnetic dry erase marker with an eraser on the lid & mounting brackets which were super easy to hammer into the frame right where I wanted them.

Once I hammered my brackets on the back, I nailed some holes in the wall, hung my beautiful board & moved my menu over from my ugly notepad to my cute new board.  I LOVE IT!  

If you are thinking of a great gift for someone, personalize a board & give it to them, or just buy one for yourself...you know you want to!

*These boards are easy to clean too.  Just use dry erase marker cleaner & a microfiber cloth or 90% Isopropyl Alcohol.  (These instructions are on the back of the board, so you never forget.)