Dry erase frames

I've been MIA the past few months as we decided to move back home to NY after moving down to NC for my job last year.  So ending my teaching position in NC, packing up and relocating, and now searching for a new job has been time consuming.  But with moving comes the renewed desire to craft and finish projects around the house so our new place feels like home.  I have been working on an insane amount of projects the past week as we settle into our new place, so I'll have lots of blog updates in the next few days.  Here's one to start off.

Inspiration for dry erase frames 

I pinned this forever ago and loved the idea, but never bothered to spend the 5 minutes to put it in action.  Well, frames were on sale at Target, so I got to work!

Materials needed:

• A frame
• Card stock (or plain paper with some design on it to look pretty)
• Access to a printer/ink
• Dry erase markers

This was so simple and so awesome.  All I did was make a word document with the words "Today I love you because..." and added a few clip art hearts.  I printed the document on card stock and then put it in my new $2 frame.  I loved it and decided to make one for a "to-do" type frame as well.  I just printed "Don't forget..." on card stock as well, and put it in a matching frame.  Voila, a lovely little note center in our dining room!

Finished dining room area.  Please excuse my husband's awesome reason to love me today.  Hey, at least he's using the board! (and likes my butt ;)

I also spent hours creating the kid's frames on the shelf in the bottom of this photo.  One of the frames was given to me as a gift when I was pregnant with Emma, and the other was on sale at Target for $3 and so I had to buy it.  They turned out so perfect and I love how this space looks!  The other framed photo on the top shelf is a picture of my husband and me right after we got engaged in San Diego.  And that frame was also on sale for $3!  Grand total for all the frames was $10, the card stock and markers I had laying around, and the pictures were just a few dollars to print (Walgreens has a sale on 4x6 photo prints right now.  Order over 50 prints online and you get them for 10 cents each...check it out if you need to print pictures!)

Total cost of project: $5 (buy paper and frames on sale and go to the dollar store for cheap dry erase  markers and you could probably make this project for even less!)
Total time: Less than 5 minutes
Result: AWESOME