Facelift for my Fridge!

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Yesterday morning, this is what my sad little refrigerator looked like:

Any eagle eyes out there see anything creepy??

 

I also found an IKEA frame that I had bought for $1 a couple years ago and then never used.

I painted them all and then had these magnets laying around that my father-in-law had gotten for me out of the trash (his retirement job is a janitor at a bank and those people throw away some gems!!).  I cut the magnets into strips to line up with the backs of my frames.

I just hot glued the magnets onto the backs of the frames. I made sure to only glue onto the wood and leave the openings clear so that I can change my pictures out if I ever want to.  I suggest finding frames that have a pretty good wooden lip so you have a nice chunk of magnet to support the weight.

Then came the fun part- seeing if it worked!

I LOVE IT!!!

In the IKEA frame, I put the kids’ school lunch menu.  I let my kids buy lunch once a week and this is perfect, because the acrylic front is light enough for the magnets, but it works as a dry erase board.  So at the beginning of the month, they can put a letter on the day each week that they want to buy! (I did it this time so I could get my picture for you guys, but they already came home and changed all my days!)

It’s exactly what I was envisioning and I’m so much happier now that all the clutter is gone! I have a step 2 to this project that I’m going to go work on now, so I’ll have to show you that later, but I was too excited to wait to post this!

Since I had everything laying around, it cost me absolutely nothing to throw together.  I’m guessing I paid around $3 for the frames through the years, though!

It is just SO me!

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