The Menus - How To

Seeing the most recent post, "Dry Erase Menu Board", from my fabulous fellow blogger, With This Ring...., I was reminded that I have a few wedding projects that I haven't posted about yet.

This one is for my DIY menu signs that I seriously made at the last minute. I mean the Friday before the wedding, sitting on the venue floor, writing up the drink menu and the food menu...

I knew I wanted some type of menu so that guests have an idea of what to expect since the dinner was served family style but decided to forgo the paper route. So this is what I came up with...


Supplies:

• 1 Canvas (any size)
• 1 container of Chalkboard paint (any color - red was all they had)
• 1 paintbrush (I used a the sponge brushes
• 1 box of white chalk

Instructions:

1. With the paint brush and paint, paint the canvas. You will most likely need to do a few coats of paint. I believe I did 4 but be sure to read the instructions for the paint.
2. Once the paint was fully dried, I wrote out the menus using the chalk.

To display the canvas, you can hang it up, use an easel (like I did) or put it on a ledge for all to see.

So what do you think? Easy right??

Sneak Peek: Projects To Be Completed

I promised in previous posts that I would show pictures of projects that I have been working on that have not been completed yet. So here they are. I apologize for the cell phone quality pictures.


Project #1: the table numbers. What I am holding in the picture is a mini canvas that will sit on a mini easel. We wanted to display our wedding colors but also bring a little bit of my Latina culture as well. Thus, the 'Dos' which if you haven't guessed stands for the number 2.

This was a project that my FI and I are working on together. I stencil and draw the numbers and am writing out the numbers in spanish while my FI is painting the canvases the black and white that you see in the picture.


Project #2: The OOT bag and Gift Bag tags. I can't divulge into too much detail here because my FMIL and my helpful friends who will be receiving one or more of these bags actually read this blog. Sorry!

What I did here was purchase a few plain white gift tags from Michael's, added a black & white ribbon in the provided hole and wrote 1 of the two combinations:

Combo #1 (Gift Bags):
Side 1 - Thank You
Side 2 - Gracias

Combo #2 (OOT Bags):
Side 1 - Welcome
Side 2 - Bienvenido


Project #3: The Bling Bling Flip Flop. This project here is for my niece, the Flower Girl. These will be her shoes for the wedding, she just doesn't know it yet because this is one of her gifts.

I purchased 144 clear 12ss flatback Swarovski rhinestone crystals from Etsy seller, JemsandBeads for a little over 7 bucks. I then hand glued each gem one by one with e6000 glue using a toothpick and my fingers. Toothpick to add the glue and fingers to add the crystal. Now I am not positive whether this is the correct glue but it was the strongest glue I had on hand. Anyway, it took me 2 hours to do one shoe and just about 130 + crystals to do the one shoe. Since I have never done this before, I wasn't sure about how many crystals I would need and unfortunately I was short. So I went to ebay and purchased more crystals for only $4.99 from the seller CrystalsXpress. Once they arrive, I will hurry up to finish the second shoe.

I can't wait to show you my finished projects!!