Chicken Wire Organization & Calendar Download
I finished this project forever ago, but It was in my entry and the light-bulb had burnt out! This week Mr. Project replaced it so I was able to take pictures!
I love this chicken wire board. It keeps me super organized. I keep my bills, out-going mail, reminder, notes, calendar etc. all up here next to my doorway so I don’t miss a thing.
I especially love the calender, its super simple and easy to get a lot of writing in each of the days.
The process to make this board is SUPER easy. You just need a few simple items. 1. A Frame, 2. Chicken Wire, 3. Nail Gun, 4. Tin Snips, 5. Spray Paint (optional), 6. Bulldog Clips
You can get a frame anywhere since it doesn’t need glass or a back. You might have one laying around, or you could find one at goodwill or a garage sale. Once you have a frame, the first step is staple the chickenwire to the backside of the frame. After you have stapled the wire around the edges, go ahead and snip the excess chicken wire. I recommend gloves and protective eye-wear for this step.
That is the bulk of the hard labor for this project. If you want to make it a little shabby, spice it up or just make it look new, grab a can of spray paint and go at it. I like how the paint looks on the chickenwire, so I didn’t mask mine off. If you don’t want your chicken wire painted, you can paint your frame before you put on the wire.
Once your frame is painted, you’re all ready to decorate it! I made these cute labels & a calendar for you to download. Or you can design your own!
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Here is how I organized mine. I hung up the tags & calendars with some silver bulldog clips. I love those things!
Here are the download links for the Tags & the Calendar. The calendar is actually 13 months long Sept 2009-2010 (the PDF download is 13 pages long).
As always, free downloads are for personal use only. Please tell your friends to come visit the site and download their own tags & calendar. I would love a comment if you do download!
Category: Free Download, Home Decor, Project | Tags: Free Download, home organization, Project 23 comments »
23 Responses to “Chicken Wire Organization & Calendar Download”
September 6th, 2009 at 10:31 PM
How cool is this? (It’s only missing a picture of me… can you fix that ASAP?)
Website looks great!
September 6th, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Very cute! And I love the downloads – I was worried that the month would be messed up (because it says September has 31 days in your sample image and the dates are on the wrong days) but no one else needs to worry about dumb things like that – just me! The calendar is perfect – phew!
Love your scrapbook kits, too!
September 7th, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Ilove this idea!!! And chicken wire – so homey!!!! (farmy?) Thanks for the organization tip!
September 7th, 2009 at 3:52 PM
This is REALLY CUTE!!
September 8th, 2009 at 7:15 AM
I love it. I wish my Dh would build this for me.
September 12th, 2009 at 5:21 AM
I just love your ideas! Thank you!
September 12th, 2009 at 3:01 PM
I am so inspired by your projects and style. Thanks for all you do you fuel my creativity and compulsion for order and organization.
September 20th, 2009 at 8:35 PM
So glad I happened upon your site. I am so excited to feature this tomorrow on my blog as well as your site in general. Your designs make me feel like I am already organized and my life is together
You are very talented and definitely have much to offer. Thanks so much. –Kristin
September 21st, 2009 at 9:08 AM
May I request an October one now? I love using this calendar for my “extra” stuff!
September 27th, 2009 at 8:38 AM
this is a great idea!
October 1st, 2009 at 11:24 AM
I don’t care that our house is contemporary—– I’m putting this baby together! Thank you!
October 3rd, 2009 at 10:33 AM
That is a fabulous idea. I was looking for something like this to display what we are working on in homeschool. I have a frame and was wondering what to put in the middle. Thanks for the tip!
November 9th, 2009 at 9:03 PM
This is just so cute!
December 4th, 2009 at 3:15 PM
could you update this for 2010 please ?
December 4th, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Actually the calender file should be through DEC 2010, so you should be good! THe file is a multiple-page PDF.
December 16th, 2009 at 1:54 PM
I tried to download the calendar and the 9th page had several pages overlapping. I did not notice it until I already printed it. I am not going be able to use it, but it inspired me to make my own. That way I can make my own notes before I print it
December 19th, 2009 at 2:52 PM
You have so many great ideas – well worth purchasing “Woman’s Day” Jan. 2010 just to find out about this site!
December 22nd, 2009 at 8:41 PM
For some reason May is messed up when I open it up…It is only me?
January 14th, 2010 at 8:10 AM
What a great idea, thanks for sharing your work.
February 1st, 2010 at 12:00 PM
I’d love to make this calendar a 22×17 desk calendar for my desk. It is such a lovely design. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks projectgirl!
February 7th, 2010 at 12:49 PM
I just stumbled onto this page and downloaded your calendar! thanks so much for sharing it! its so cute and i think its going to be very useful. might even get DH to build me a little chicken wire board
February 22nd, 2010 at 10:06 PM
You could take the file to a kinkos or similar and see if they can print a large version. The files are postscript which means they can be printed any size. good luck.
February 25th, 2010 at 6:26 AM
I am not sure but I see that the calendar only goes from September to September??? Was hoping to get the whole year. Any help in this area would be great! Thanks
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