Maybe because it’s back-to-school season, or because people are in fall organizing mode, but I’ve been getting requests about ideas for bulletin boards. Well, when it comes to bulletin boards, nothing combines style and practicality like a French memo board. Covered in decorative fabric, French memo boards use crisscrossed ribbons to hold photos, invitations and notes — so you don’t have to use pushpins. That’s particularly useful when you don’t want to put holes in your valuable pictures and cards.
Perfect for a dorm room or a home office, they’re surprisingly easy to make with inexpensive materials. I assembled the memo board shown here in less than two hours.
(And to those holdouts who still won’t part with their utilitarian corkboards: You obviously didn’t get the memo.)
What you’ll need:
- Foam-core board
- Hobby knife
- Scissors
- Batting
- Fabric of choice
- Ribbon
- Pins
- Buttons
- Needle and thread
- Duct tape
- Hot glue gun
- Felt
Step 1
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