Menu Chalk Board
Jolie Mae Collections
James and I have always wanted to have our own business since we met. We got married in 2006, bought our first home, and not having a lot of money we made Christmas gifts for our friends and family. We decided to make signs – James cut the wood and sanded it. I painted and stenciled wording on them. They came out nice, but I was not totally satisfied with them.
We had our first daughter in 2008, as soon as I became a mother, I wanted nothing more than to be a stay at home mom. I stayed at my full time job working in accounting, but reduced my hours to be at home with Olivia more.
With a bad ecomony and hard to find steady work for James, we struggled through with different ideas of our own business and ways to make ends meet, nothing seemed to be working for us though.
In 2010 we had our second daughter, Emma. I left my accounting job and I worked various part time jobs to keep making ends meet -making jewelry, waitressing, babysitting, and cleaning. James found a really good full time job and worked side jobs when he could to allow me to stay at home with the girls.
I saw a sign one day that I loved…..and I thought, we could do that, but I was not sure how. Through some research and testing some sample product. We started with the idea of the signs we did years ago as christmas gifts, made changes, and came up with a product that I was completely happy with! We sold out of them at a local craft show.
We decided to start selling on Etsy, and named our shop after our girls – with their middle names. Jolie Mae Collections was born! I love creating personal, meaningful pieces for everyone. Whether it be a wedding sign, baby sign, a favorite bible verse, or favorite inside joke. I love having quotes – large or small – around my home to read daily and remind me of what is most important in life. What makes me smile.
I no longer work at any other part time jobs, and we are so busy that James does not have time to do any other side work jobs.
James works full time, comes home and gets to work in the basement on orders that need to be filled.
I am able to be at home with my girls during their very young years, provide for our family, and love my job. I love the flexibility I have to be able to take my girls to the playground on a nice day, take them to preschool, and be a parent volunteer when needed. I am able to always be here for them, but it is not all easy. The girls are very understanding and helpful when I am really busy with work. Most nights we work until midnight to get orders out and get the most work done we can while the girls are sleeping.
We work out of our home, our living room has become my workshop – filled with shelves of production, paint, vinyl, shipping supplies, and my desk. James does all of the woodworking in our basement, with a garage in the works in our backyard! We are looking forward to this being his main shop in 2014.
We love what we do and are very proud of what we have accomplished. We take a lot of pride in all of our work to give our customers a quality piece with a reasonable price.We are always in the process of making new products and love to do custom pieces. I love designing and creating custom pieces for that very special wedding day or a special gift for someone.
Family Weekly Menu Board (Retail Value $45)
This giveaway is for a Custom Menu Board – Chalkboard. It measures 12″ x 36″ with 3″ x 11″ chalkboard space for each day. What a great way to keep your weekly menu plan! These chalk boards are made to order with your choice of paint color and lettering color.
So go ahead and enter! Then jump over to Jolie Mae Collections and take a look at all their beautiful pieces!
Love it!
I am having way too much fun with this!!!!!!
Such a cute idea! We plan weekly menus, but I always forget to write them down (which means by Tuesday I’m asking “what do we have left again?”)
What a cute idea Would love to win the menu board!
Love this idea as my kids are always asking what’s for supper.
Would be SO much cuter than my current post it note for menus!!
I love this board, it is so cute! I could really use a menu board.
This is super cute and would be handy!
These boards are great. I tried to become a fan on facebook, but I don’t get any results when I search “Jolie Mae Collections”…what am I doing wrong?
There is a link within the giveaway. Click on it and you’ll be a fan!
What a great idea. My son would love being involved and helping plan the week’s menu.
oooooooo i love this….would love to have one!!! thanx for the giveaway!!! <3
Any help with organization would be appreciated!
This is really cute. Useful too now that I’m cooking more.
These are so cute… I’m pretty positive I need at least one of each item, haha.
Great way to get my kids to plan with us.
Love this!!
So cute! Thanks for the giveaway.
Great!! Will come in handy!
Cute! I have been eyeing a different board, but like this better. I would do orange with mocha or black lettering.
This is a really cute idea! I have the perfect spot for it in my kitchen.
Love this! Would love to win it! : )
Love the menu chalkboard! So cute. It would be fun to get my son to write our menu up there every week!
Love it!
Absolutely love this!!! Pick me!
Love the menu board!
Such a fun way to add even more excitement to Menu Planning! 😉
Gorgeous!
Hope it comes in orange! Great idea to help keep the focus on these great meals we are trying!
I love your work!!! Simple but beautiful! Also, I love your story.
What a great way to show the menu for the Day.
They have so many great signs. I especially adore the pink one that says: She believed she could so she did.
What an awesome planner. I would love it in red to match my kitchen. It could also be used for daily chores or a daily praise or. scriptures.
Yes, I think my kids would get a kick out of it.
This is so cute. I would love to win.
My kids would love being able to see what’s for dinner on this wonderful menu chalkboard!
This is awesome! And will stop the family from asking every single day, “What’s for dinner?!?” 🙂
This is a great idea!! I use a menu now, but I only have a sheet of paper taped to my fridge for the family to see 🙂 so this would be so nice to have!!!
Love this!! What a cute idea for menu planning.
Adorbs! I must have one!
I currently write meals down on the calendar, but this would be an awesome and fun addition to the kitchen!
Super cute! and I have a whole in my kitchen wall that I need to cover and this would be perfect!
i could use this chalkboard
This is adorable! I think it would really encourage me to plan ahead!!
Love this, would help me out tremendously
This board would be very useful and look great in our kitchen. Love it!
I love this idea! I am getting married in May, so this would be perfect for us to use when we move in together once we are married!
I would love to win this board! I could really have fun with this.
Would love this!
Awesome giveaway!! I love it!
I love it!
Such a cute, unique way to display the weekly menu. I love it!
Now I don’t have to tell everybody multiple times what I’m cooking and if they don’t like what’s on the menu they can take care of theirselves!
I LOVE this!! I’ve looked for this exact thing to hang on our kitchen wall!!!
So cute!
I want this!! So adorable!
this totally beats throwing out scraps of paper or sticky notes on the wall by the stove!!
love it
I absolutely love this!!! Great giveaway!
This is so cute:). It would look great in my kitchen.
These are so cute– Love the idea and would take so much stress out of my daily life of trying to figure out every night of what is for dinner….
Love this, it would be fun to use and great way to organize my thoughts!
I love having things written down right out there where everyone can see them!! This would be perfect for that!
What would may menu board say…it wouldn’t be anything gourmet for sure. Can I put “Rice Krispies”?
What would my menu board say…it wouldn’t be anything gourmet for sure. Can I put “Rice Krispies”?
woohoo. giveaway. i hope i win.
this would end that old question of whats for supper as well as give me a reason to create a menu
What a fun way to plan for the week. Makes meal times seem much less daunting.
This would be awesome to win and help with meal planning as I struggle remembering all the recipes and meals I want to prepare each week. TY.
My kids are obsessed with knowing what our meals are each day. This would be such a great way to help them (and me!) stay organized and sane.
Useful and cute too!
This would go nice with meal planning!
I love this! It would definitely encourage me to menu plan and stick with it!
Would be so cute in a kitchen!
Pick me!!!! Please!!!!!!!
This is so pretty! I love it and I know my family would love it instead of constantly asking me what’s for dinner!
We try to do a flexible weekly menu so this would be very handy to organize our week even better!!! I love this idea and so cute too!
I would love this! Makes it easy to do meal planning!
How cute! I menu plan, but it’s really time consuming to hunt down recipes and prepare a grocery list. I love the idea behind No More To Go, especially since I have picky eaters and a gluten free family member. I’m just trying to find out a little more before I pull the trigger on joining. Thanks so much for this opportunity!
I love being organized and have the weekly menu plans in my iPad, but only I can see them. My daughter is always asking what we are having for dinner. This would be such a cool and fun way to display the menus for everyone to see. Plus it would help my daughter with her reading!
This is a very cute way to stay organized with meal planning. I cook my husband and I dinner almost every night. I know he would like to know what is on the agenda, and this would help me stay on track too.
This would help me plan out my new recipes to try and plan ahead!
Love the creative ideas!
What a great creative idea; totally love it!!!
Brand new to the site. Can’t wait to get started!
What a fun way to decorate and inform! Thanks for putting my name in the hat for the drawing.
I’ve actually been wanting something like this, so this is awesome!