Child Message Centers Available NOW as Digital Files

Hello friends.  Hope you are all doing well!

You all remember my child message centers, right?   If you missed the original post on these guys, you can view it RIGHT HERE.

They've been one of my most popular pieces that I sell.

Guess what?! In my brand new ONLINE shop, I'm now offering these as JPEG digital files that you print from your local print shop.  You get the file instantly, then simply upload it to your local print shop and order.  

Delightful Order Digitals are for PERSONAL, non-commercial use only. ©delightfulorder - original work and protected.  Have any questions about my terms? View my TERM OF USE page.

Here are the 16 x 20 sizes that I have available NOW: (click the photo below to be directed to the item in my new shop.)

There are a few different sizes to choose from too.  You can view all the child message center prints available HERE.

Interested in a different color option? Email me and I will see what I can do.

 

May you be a little inspired!

Until next time,
DaNita 
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Everyday Message Center Dry Erase Print

Are you a person that has to see, at a glance, what the week and month ahead holds?  Do you forget important meetings? appointments?  How do you track it all?

I have to be able to see my schedule at a quick glance. Which is exactly why I created my everyday message board back in March.  I have LOVED. LOVED. LOVED it and it truly has made my life easier.

SO... I decided to create something similar to my message board and add it to my shop.

Allow me to introduce my NEWEST Etsy Shop item... 

The Everyday Message Center - Dry Erase - 16 x 20 PRINT:

 and it's available {HERE} in my shop.  

I use my everyday message board literally EVERY DAY! Which is  exactly why I named it the EVERYDAY message board.  ;) This one is mine:

You may remember reading about it here.

This is the one that I recently created and added to my shop:

This PRINT is perfect for keeping track of your weekly and monthly schedule, all while adding delightful decor to your home. Use month by month, for years to come.  This print helps in running an organized home.

Simply attach your family photo's to the print. Change the photo's as often as desired to give a new look (holiday, seasonal photo's, etc.) There are two designated area's for 4 x 6 photo's but you can also add a third photo to the message box, if you'd like or you can add a 4 x 6 piece of colored card-stock paper with your last name on it.

Once you receive the print via mail YOU customize the print to your liking.

Place the print into your favorite 16 x 20 picture frame and write directly on the glass with a dry erase marker. Use over and over as a dry erase board, tracking your weekly and monthly schedule.

Hang in your entry way, office or on a kitchen wall next to the phone. It's even got space for phone messages too.

Featuring a large calendar and a peek inside my week section, which includes space to write  your daily to do's ...

and  space to write what's for dinner each day as well. 

Easy, Delightful ORDER - who doesn't LOVE that?

This is exactly what you will receive in the mail:

A  high resolution 16 x 20 PRINT. Simply add your photo's and place the print into your favorite 16 x 20 glass frame, hang it on the wall and start writing in your schedule. The color of the print is actually more ivory than white.  Remember, monitor colors  vary slightly.  

The print is NOT designed to be written on. It is specifically made to go under glass, to be used as a dry erase board. 

 This print also coordinates nicely with:

 

The child's message center dry-erase print that is also available in my shop.

So, if you are wanting to bring Delightful Order to your everyday life.  Stop by and get your Everyday Message Center Print here and as always, if there is something that you have in mind and you didn't see it in my shop, feel free to send me an email. 

If you have any questions regarding this print or anything else in my shop, email me or comment below, I will answer your questions as best I can.

*This print has been updated with color and more 16 x 20 Everyday Message Center Prints have been added to the shop.* Click on the images below to be directed to the item in the shop.

and there's more.  Stop by MY SHOP to view all available.

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Children's Homework Message Center

Way back, almost a year ago now, I created this area in my back entrance for my boys.  If you've been reading my blog for a while now, you may remember seeing this area.  It's the post titled Homework Bulletin Boards. 

As much as I loved the area and the bulletin boards, I've wanted to update it for a long time.  Now that my boys are back in school and they have homework and school and sport schedules, I decided NOW was the perfect time for the updating.  Let me explain why I wanted to change the boards... 

#1 - My boys come home with classroom newsletters each week, which are 8 1/2 x 11 paper size. On the old bulletin boards, I had to fold the newsletters in half, which I didn't like.

#2 - I had printed out little mini-calendars to track their months.  I did this for about 2 months and that's about it. 

#3 - There was NO place to track their weekly schedule, WHICH is very important for me AND for them. 

#4 - When I first created this section in my back entrance, I only made 3 bulletin boards.  I didn't make one for my littlest guy AND he actually has appointments too & eventually will be going to school, so I wanted a board for him as well.

AND 

#5 - I wanted to create something that I could have available in my Shop.

So this here, is what I came up with:

Here's a little closer look at the dry erase boards:

I designed and printed the 16 x 20 Child Message Center and framed them in $3.00 frames from Craft Warehouse and use them as a dry erase boards writing directly on the glass with my dry or wet erase marker.

Go here to see how I made the backpack holders.

The Child Message Centers are available HERE. 

After printing your piece, simply glue a 4 x 6 photo to the print and if you'd like to customize it a little more, you can either PRINT your child's name or initial onto colorful cardstock paper and glue that to the top right box.  If you have a Cricut machine, cutting the letters of their names would work great too.

or... you can let your child customize the name box area, "signing" their name to a piece of cardstock paper and then attach that to the print (that would be super cute too.)

What's really cool about this piece is that you can change the photo and the name box area as often as desired, giving a new look, which means that you can use this print over and over again for years to come.

I customized my boys' prints with a recent photo of each of them and their names.

After placing the print into the frame, I simply hot-glued clips to the glass to hold their weekly school newsletters, important papers and homework.

 and so far, it's been working well.

 

I use a wet erase marker to write directly onto the glass.

Homework due dates, tests and any other important information is written on their boards.  PE days are now marked on the day of the week, giving no reason that PE clothes should be forgotten at home.  Soccer schedules for 3 boys can get crazy busy too, from practices to games to where and when.  There is absolutely NO way I can remember it all. NOW it's all written on their boards.

There's a small monthly calendar too!

Here's one last look at my boys' message centers:

I Love. Love. Love. this area NOW!  It's really been working GREAT!
:)

I'm super excited to be offering more Message Center Prints in digital format for a fully organized home. Keep checking the shop to see all available pieces.

Get your Digital/Printable Child Message Centers HERE

May you be a little inspired!

Until next time,
DaNita 

Child's Art Board Tutorial

Do you have an unused frame laying around your home? Create a fun and easy art board for your little one's artwork.

This one I created for my client.  She was needing a place to display her children's artwork and she had a large frame, not being used.  This is what it originally looked like:

By removing the glass and adding a few fun items to the board, it went from that plain cardboard to a usable piece:

Here are the steps on creating this fun board:

Remove the cardboard and cover it with material.  Wrap the material around the back of the of the cardboard and hot-glue.

I found these extra large clothes pins at Craft Warehouse.

Cut strips of cardstock paper to fit over the clothespin. Attach using Mod Podge.

I created the art wording in Microsoft Publisher. Printed it and cut the strips out and Mod Podged those onto the clothespins.

Before gluing, lay out your design to the way that you like it.

I love the jute twine and found it on sale at craft warehouse. 

I certainly will be using more of it.

Once you are happy with the layout, hot-glue all the pieces onto the board.

I added some buttons.

and VOILA - you have a cutesy place to display your child's art.
Hang it on a wall and start using your board.
 Here's a look at the before and afters together.

Last year I created this art cork board for my chicklets:

Click the photo above to be directed to the post.

Do you have a special place to display your child's art that they bring home from school?  Do share!

and .... speaking of school, I'm working on something that I'm super duper excited to show you to help keep your children organized during school.  

Do come back soon to see what I've been up to and if you don't already, follow me or subscribe by email to stay updated on all things Delightfully Organized and more!

Have a truly blessed weekend!

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Schools Out - Organize the Backpacks

My boys have been out of school for about a week now.  When three boys with backpacks and bags FULL of paper, books, school supplies and such come home it can be a LOT.

A LOT of mess, that is!! 

My boys literally dumped it all into their back entrance cubbies.  Some of it ending up on the floor. 

I'm thankful for the cubbies, at least it's not ALL on the floor,
BUT ummm, yeah, I can only handle this for about a day, at the MOST.

 See what I mean?  These bins are large too, so that means there is a LOT of stuff in them.
I had some work to do...

So I dumped it all onto my kitchen counter.  By doing this, I'm forced to go through it, because there is NO way I can leave my counter like this ;)  To get organized and clean up a space, often times it becomes quite dis-orderly, BEFORE it becomes orderly.

 See the two garbage containers? I threw out a BUNCH!  you just can NOT keep it all.

I created piles of "like items" and then decided what to do with it all.
Memories worth keeping got filed into each of my boys school paper file boxes.

I previously showed you how I've organized their school papers...

 

 ... if you missed that post (VIEW it HERE)  

Having these file boxes finished, made the job of organizing their paperwork SO much EASIER!  I simply slid the papers behind the grade and closed them up.  Simple as that, which is what I LOVE - Quick and EASY organization.

AND...

To my wonderful surprise, there was quite a bit of un-used items, which got me thinking...

I decided to create a school supplies bin:

and I decided that when I'm out and about this summer, I'm going to pick up things that I know will be on their list for next year and add it to the bin.   I'm excited about this, because, come August/September I hope to have a bunch of their supplies already on hand, thus creating a smaller school shopping bill.

Here is my back entrance all cleaned up:

Do you spy those Chores Charts?  I sell the printable charts in my Etsy shop.  They've been one of my most popular sellers!  My boys have been using the charts for a number of months and I'm telling you - It has been SO awesome!!  View my original Chores Chart post (HERE) OR find them in my ETSY shop (HERE.)  If your curious about those bins they are Awesome too!  I got them from Walmart. 

These are my future plans for the back entrance:

I do have a LOT of future plans in a LOT of rooms in my home.  Hopefully I can get this one finished soon.  

How about you - have your children finished school yet?  Did they bring you oodles of papers and such?  If so, what have you done with all of it? OR if not, what do you plan on doing with it all?  

*Part of this area in my back entrance has been updated.  VIEW the NEW Homework Message Boards HERE.*

Have a beautiful day!!

:)

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