Up-cycled Clip Board

This post explains how I up-cycled a clip board for my grocery list pad.

It may be a simple thing, but I often find that the simple things can end up meaning more than they should.

Ever since I came to the farm to live, our weekly grocery list has been written up on a pad which lived underneath the microwave.

I know we need practical things like that around, but I see no reason why they can not be beautiful as well. Especially when they are in almost every day use. It gives me pleasure to use lovely things. I presume this is perfectly normal for women, isn’t it?

I longed for a lovely blackboard on the wall to write our shopping list on. But I faced resistance to this idea.

For one thing, you can’t take a blackboard with you to the supermarket. So you have to sit down and copy your list onto paper.

Whereas you can just rip the paper off a pad and take it with you.

So, instead of making the blackboard, as I had planned. I searched around in our office and found an old hardboard Clip Board.

I know this is not an original idea. I don’t even claim it was my idea – Pinterest, right? more than likely. I see such wonderful ideas there, but lots of other online places as well.

I covered both sides of the clip board with scrap booking paper. Using Mod Podge to stick it down. I would have loved to use pretty paper covered in pink roses, but as hubby uses the list as much as I do, I thought it more politic to use something less girly.

Then, using an emery board, I sanded around the edges to ensure there were no sharp edges of paper which could be caught and lifted. It blended the papers edge into the wood wonderfully. I then went around the edges with some distressing ink to give it an aged, used and worn look. Then covered the whole thing with another coat of Mod Podge on top to seal the paper and make it water proof, since it’s going to be in the kitchen.

I put the bull dog clip back on it, and wrote “Shopping List” and added some tiny flowers with a white paint pen on it. It’s worked wonderfully, and raised no objections from anyone else who has to use it. So it seems to be a winner, in our house at least. It no longer fits underneath the microwave, but it does slip in between the microwave and the fridge just nicely.

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