Family Rules project

Like the rest of the world, I recently joined Pinterest. I have to admit, I find Pinterest to be overwhelming. I have yet to add one thing to my pin boards. 

When I go on that site, it makes me feel like I should be doing more, creating more, organizing more, cooking more, reading more. I'm already so overwhelmed with all of the things on my to-do list that I can't focus on all of the great ideas other people have! I can only take it for a few minutes before I have to get back to work.

However, the other day, I was scrolling through and I came upon a project that immediately grabbed my attention. For several year, I have wanted to do a "Family Rules" project. I first saw the project here and then here. I really liked the idea, but the format seemed too difficult for my skill level.

Then, someone on Pinterest had the idea to create a Family Rules project using an easy-to-find photo frame and scrapbooking paper. This was totally up my alley! Not only do I love scrapbooking paper, but I really love playing with computer fonts. So this was perfect for me!

I have one wall in our dining room that is totally blank. I took down the framed artwork last year when I painted, and I never put it up again. Now that we use our dining room primarily for doing school, the framed art just seemed too formal.

When I saw this idea, it got me thinking of how I could make that wall functional and fun, yet creative and cute. I haven't finished the piece that goes in the middle yet. It's going to be a display area for the kids' artwork. 

On one side I will hang the Family Rules frame and on the other side, I'm going to hang this:

It has one section for each day of the week. I can use a dry erase marker to write on the glass to give us a quick look at what is happening during the week. The photo shows what it looks like without any writing on the glass.

When I finish the middle part and hang everything I will take a photo. 

These are the rules I chose for our Family Rules frame:

Here is an up close view of the days of the week in the other frame:

OK... so now I  just have to hang everything! Hopefully, I'll get it all done soon and can take a photo of the finished product.