Janet of All Trades

I search my house for a clipboard this weekend. I know I have one somewhere or I might have given in away, so I made a trip to the Dollar Store since I had a makeover idea. I pulled together some of supplies from my craft stash, including an old Road Atlas, Mod Podge and adhesive backed felt. My Clipboard looked awfully sad and cheap and need of a makeover. I started by finding a map page that was large enough to cover my clipboard and it just happened to be Minnesota. Next I laid it out over my board and folded where the clip started. Next I marked it with a pencil on both sides so I knew where to cut. Drawing a line right to the edge. Next I cut on the line to the fold and made sure it fit sung. Then I cut along the fold and cut the top piece so it fit and lined up behind the clip. Next I covered the entire board with Mod Podge. And applied the paper,making sure to get out all the wrinkles. Then I flipped it over and folded down all the edges an...

I bought this Dollar Store dry erase board along time ago and finally got around to giving it a make over. I started by making a frame for it by laying it on a piece of cardboard and giving it about a 2 inch border. After cutting it out, I thought it would probably be easier if I had just picked up a $1.00 mat as well, but I used what I had laying around. Next I cut a piece of fabric about 1 inch larger than my cardboard. Once it was cut I wrapped around the frame and secured with double sided tape. Then I cut the center out and wrapped those pieces around the frame as well. Lastly I removed the rubber gusset around the board and hot glued it to the frame. I attached it to my new bulletin board with a few push pins, but I really didn't like they way it looked. So I attached two pins to the back of the board and pushed the whole thing in.  The pen is magnetic and will stay right on the board for easy access and a clean look. It was so easy and in expensive and look great on my newly...