I hate it when I go to a selling party and I have to try finding something to put the order form on so I can write on it. Usually I wind up trying to use the catalog as my writing surface, but this causes two problems. First, it's a flexible surface. You still have to balance it on your lap, a friend's back or where ever you can find space. Second, you have to refer to the catalog for item numbers and things like that, so you are constantly flipping back and forth between the catalog and the order form. Not so much fun.
So I decided I was going to get clipboards for people to use at my Pampered Chef parties. Now, I'm in Germany living near an Army base. I could look off post, but with the current exchange rate it's just a bit cheaper to buy things on post (usually). On post there were only two options, the standard ugly fiber board brown ones for $1.35 or these really nice ones made of plastic with a cubby for pens and stuff for about $5.00. I wanted something a little more than the brown ones but not quite as big or expensive as the plastic ones. Well, pinterest to the rescue! I stumbled upon
this pin to a tutorial on how to make the ugly ones pretty using scrapbooking paper and mod podge. Luckily I have a ton of scrapbooking paper that I've been trying to find projects for now that I'm doing the digital scrapbooking. I've only done six of them so far, and they aren't quite as good as the ones that were pinned, but I really like them. I found some cheap stickers that had food quotes on them that really just give them that little extra.
So I went from these (don't mind the icky iphone quality):
To these:
With a couple closer shots of my favorites so far:
I know I just made a meal planning page the other day (you can find it here), but I really wanted to make a meal board. I saw one on pinterest that looked like something I could do with mostly things around the house. I picked up some ribbon and binder clips. I already had the cork board and push pins. I printed out recipe names on cardstock and on the back of them I will write where I can find the recipe. I pinned the ribbon to the board and threaded the binder clips on them. I also stuck in a pin between the clips to help the ribbon stay in place. The cards are color coded for sides, carbs, main dishes and slow cooker recipes. I also added some cards for eating out or leftovers. The cup to hold the cards is the bottom of a propel bottle with a tab in the back for me to attach a binder clip. And of course, no meal board would be complete without a couple take out menus. :-) I finally put them in some page protectors so I won't have to reprint them. And here's how it turned out.
