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Dinner, on the Side

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As promised, I followed through with the DIY Menu Board solution I saw on another blog.

I had been writing our our weekly dinner menu on paper and taping to the front of our fridge (the fridge doors aren’t magnetic). Needless to say, it wasn’t pretty.

So, to spice up the kitchen a bit, I made a DIY menu board from a picture frame, scrapbook paper, and chalkboard markers.

Supplies from A.C.Moore – picture frame $4, scrapbook paper $1.29, magnets $1.79 = $6.99 (I already had the markers).

And in a quick 5 minutes, I made this!

Not too bad for $7!  And thanks to my dear friend, Mychelle, we discovered that the SIDE of the fridge is magnetic.  A perfect place for our menu board, since there isn’t any wall space.

It’s A Bird! No, It’s A Plane!

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Although we’ve been moved in for months now, there are still a few scattered boxes and piles of goodies to find homes for. I recently found a home for our wedding memorabilia.  That project was more so for me, so I decided to tackle one of Vinay’s boxes sitting in the living room.  Vinay has a collection of model airplanes at 1:600 scale from when he was a child.  In our previous apartments, we layed them out on a bookshelf with our books.  Since we have a permanent home, I though it would be special to take some time to properly display Vinay’s collection.

So, with some creative help from my mom, we began the project!  We took all the planes out of their boxes.  Some of the airlines aren’t in service anymore so it was fun opening them and laying them out on the floor.

Where to put them?  Well, we have two empty built-in shelves with glass doors under the pillars that divide the dining and living room that are still empty.  Seems like a perfect display case!

But just placing the planes on the shelves isn’t creative enough…


We are going to hang some to make them look like they are flying! To do that, we needed a few tools: a hammer, tacks, and string.

Using the string, we were able to support the planes in a ‘flying’ position. We used the tacks to support the string from the shelf above and the hammer pushed the tack in farther so the planes didn’t fall.


So, we hung a few planes, and put the rest on the shelves.

And with that… we are one box closer to being completely moved in!  We’ve recently worked on setting up our office and we’ll share pictures of that soon (only 3 boxes left in there!)




Post-Wedding Decor

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Where do all the wedding things go?….after the wedding that is.  Well, since we spent so much time and energy making everything about our wedding personalized, I made sure I kept a bunch of ‘leftovers’ to display in our home one day.  The invitations, escort cards, table numbers, and even all our wedding cards.  So, for months they’ve been stored away…. until now!  My gracious Aunt Candy (thank you!) made a travel themed board for everyone to sign.  She made a matching board for us to display our wedding memorabilia.  With a little creative thinking, I made these and put them up in our bedroom…

What do you think?  I had piles and piles of lovely cards from our family and friends and no way to display all of them.  So, I picked out the most neutral ones, and a couple with hints of blue (our bedroom is blue) and I double-sided sticky taped them to the back of the board, to make a unique frame.  Here are a few close ups:

And here is the memorabilia board:

This one was a little more difficult to pull together because we had so many personal mementos to chose from, and arranging them took some time.  However, both projects took about an hour in all to complete (Thanks to my Mom who watched Avery while I made them).

We have a few other wedding day remnants around the house like a tissue flower centerpiece in a hutch in the dining room… there for now because I’m not quite sure where it belongs yet.  And in a drawer in the dining room are cloth napkins made from the world map print tablecloths used at our reception.  Oh and here’s a runner… in our bedroom on our dresser:

I love that we can re-use decorations from our wedding!  Not only because when I see them, I’m reminded of that amazing day, but also because weddings are expensive, and I would hate to have all our hard work into the decorations just go in the trash after being admired for only one night.

They’ll be more post-wedding decor to come… I have a zillion frames (well, like 10) from wedding gifts and our old house that I need to find homes for and put wedding pictures in.  And we have a giant pile of baby cards that we once displayed on on the pillars between the dining room and living room…

but have since been taken down because we needed room for holiday decorations (I’ll blog about those soon!).  Oh and you can see the flower globe one-a-centerpiece in the dining room in that picture! So, I’ll have to think of something creative to do with the cards.  Any suggestions?

Oh, and you see those empty glass displays under the cards?  I used one of them to display a plane collection of Vinays… I’ll share that soon!