Mom Command Center

Do you have a certain place in your house that you go to every time you walk in the door?  Somewhere that you drop your keys, phone or bag?  I do.  As much as I try to create a "mudroom" type of space in my home, I always seem to bypass it for a certain corner of the kitchen counter.  Here is what that corner looks like in my kitchen.

I call it my "mom command center" because it's where I put all of my reminder notes, to do lists, grocery lists, etc.  This is my little corner and no one else in my family uses it.  If my husband or son needs to leave me a note, they put it there.  It's the first place I go to when I wake up and I use the space to (try) to keep myself organized.

If you've read some of my previous posts, you might recognize the shelf on the wall.  It holds some of my favorite things.  I wrote about it here.

I also recycled another one of my favorite candy boxes to make a clipboard of sorts.  Just to remind you of what the box looked like (and to make you drool over the candy), here it is.

When the box was empty, I covered it with some of my favorite wallpaper and glued some mini clothespins to the front of it.  I use it to clip coupons, receipts and pictures to.  It hangs on the back of a small folding photo screen so I can easily see it.

Some of the other things that I have in my little corner counter space are a small chalkboard (for notes) and a wooden organizer (for mail, pens, etc.).  I have had the wooden organizer for years but have resisted the urge to paint it because it matches my kitchen cabinets.  The folding screen, however did not escape my painting obsession.  I painted it with AS chalk paint in chateau gray (to match the shelf on the wall).


To end this post, I thought I would show you what the front of the folding photo screen looks like.  It has some of my favorite family photos in it.  Just look at those super cute kids :)

REMINDER:  Don't forget to enter the My Memories Suite Scrapbooking software giveaway still going on here.


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