I made this button monogram pillow yesterday while watching college football. (Football and crafts just go together, you know.) If you’d like to make one too, visit Kari at The Adventures of One Crazy Lady for her tutorial!
I’m tempted to spell out “H-O-M-E” across four square pillows for my couch!
I had an idea for our Christmas packaging this year, and ordered a book of Moo stickers made with photos of our family. (They’re not available in Moo’s USA shop, so plan ahead for longer ship time and order from their European store.)
We’ll use the stickers in place of To/From labels. If you see your photo on a present, that gift is for you! The younger kids, not yet reading, may really have fun with this.
Hopefully the photo stickers will bring back fun memories and cause a lot of smiles. And that’s kind of the point in getting together in the first place, isn’t it?
I made my Mojo shirt last night! Man, it’s hard for me to take pictures of myself sometimes. This was taken in the bathroom mirror, but hopefully it’s good enough to at least give you an idea how the shirt turned out. (It’s actually centered well on the shirt, in spite of how it appears here.)
This shirt was made with a phone picture altered to crop right around Mojo, then made black and white. This was done partially because you could still see the green grass around his toes, but I preferred how it looked anyway. I bought T-shirt transfer paper and just printed the picture reversed on a full-page. It was easy to iron on to an old tank top I already had, and within minutes I had my very own Mojo shirt. The transfer is a little “slicky”, but the instructions promise it will feel softer after it’s washed.
Mojo was very excited about the entire process, but he’s excited about everything, as puppies are. The real test was when my husband saw it, smiled and asked me to make one for him, too!
Sadly, we are unable to attend the Wilson 1st Annual Wold Cup Beer Pong Tournament. The “Uniforms Welcome” added to the bottom of the invitation sounded like a challenge though, so I made these for the hosts. (Forgive me, crafty Meghan, I appliqued with fleece instead of the cotton you recommended. I know you were right, but I just couldn’t resist a plush red Solo cup!)
I hope everyone has a great time and GO TEAM WILSON!!!
We’ve scheduled a family vacation for June and I’m already working on details. (I love having something to plan!) My daughters are still using little-girl-going-to-Grandma’s style luggage that they outgrew years ago. It’s time for them to have some real luggage to take on this trip and into adulthood.
I’ll buy them some nice roller suitcases, but for carry-ons I wanted to upcycle some vintage luggage. I asked what they might want painted on their luggage and earned a couple eye rolls. “Mom’s crafting at us again!” But then I said the magic words, “Would you like a horde logo?” OH. YES. THEY. WOULD. In their spare time, my sweet little girls are hardcore World of Warcraft gamers.
If you want to personalize some luggage, you can create a stencil for yourself using Contact paper. Draw or trace on the paper side, keeping in mind that you’ll need to reverse your design. Cut out carefully and apply to your luggage. Smooth down all around the edges, but if your suitcase is textured you may want to paint carefully from the stencil toward the middle of your design. This helps keep paint from being pushed underneath the stencil into the little surface grooves.
I use fabric paint because it’s meant to be flexible when dry. I was told the horde logo should be red, but my red paint looked really pink. I’m not into World of Warcraft myself, but I’m guessing pink horde logos just won’t do. I started with a little metallic black around the edges, then mixed the black and red together to fill in. Carefully peel off the stencil while the paint is still wet. (Waiting until it dries may cause some of the paint to dry on the stencil and peel up right along with it.) After it’s dry, you may want to apply a few coats of varnish to protect the paint against scuffs.
Hooray for second chances!
I hope they’ll approve! (You can see my own Twitter luggage here.)
