Decorative Menu Board

I was so excited when the idea came about of creating a two week menu for my family.  I have been a crockin' fool for a while now and am LOVING it!  
I am the type of person that needs to have everything well thought out and organized.  Don't get me wrong...I can fly by the seat of my pants at times, but when it comes to planning meals ahead of time, I get excited.

My husband and I tend to grocery shop every two weeks, so a few months back I decided to start creating a menu and grocery list the day before we go shopping. This gives me time to research new recipes, choose which days are good for certain meals and write down the ingredients that are needed for those two weeks. Sometimes menu planning takes me over an hour to do and I still love it!  I am a teacher, so I guess it makes sense.  I am used to PLANNING!

I used to type out the menu (It was kind of a joke/ something I liked but thought my hubby would hate.  It turned out that he LOVED the idea!) all cute and stick it on the refrigerator but then I realized that I was just wasting paper! I also came to the realization that because I was spending so much time creating it, it deserved a pretty home!

Here ya go:

Find yourself a frame (8x10 works great).  I got this frame for $2.50 at Walmart.  I may find a more ornate one and spray paint (my best friend these days) it some awesome color, but I had to have this done NOW and I didn't want to spend much.

Choose the color/ type of paper you would like to use.  This is damask paper from the scrap booking section at hobby lobby. I created my template on the computer and printed it onto this awesome paper. I then used my paper cutter to size this sheet down to an 8x10.

I added a piece of yellow paper behind this sheet to bring out that cool damask pattern!

  Place it back in your frame!

Display it somewhere in your kitchen.  Use dry erase markers to complete your menu for the week! Please excuse the horrible handwriting!  I have terrible handwriting and couldn't find my small dry erase markers (and I say my husband has 100 excuses for things).