Lost Socks??

You ever wash clothes and when you are folding them you come up with a odd number of socks?? Ha! Well, we do around our house so I found this idea on another blog and I just had to make one for our laundry room. I have listed the materials and steps below you will need to make it, except for the letters to say "Lost Socks"....I haven't gotten to this step yet, I have to cut my letters out, but when I do I will just use mod podge to put them on!! I will post a picture once I do that.!


Materials:
-Wood board (I found mine in the craft section at wal-mart, I think around 2-3 dollars)
-Paint ( I used acrylic)
-Paint brush -I used a foam brush
-clothes pins - as many as your board will hold, I used 8
-Cardstock or scarpbook paper
-mod podge
-glue gun
-ribbon
-stapler

Steps:
1. First you will paint the board the color of your choice
2. While you are waiting on your board to dry and to see if you need a second coat, get out your clothes pins and cardstock paper
3. Measure the length and width of the clothes pins and start cutting out our strips of card stock.
4. Put a layer of mod podge onto the top of one of the clothes pin
5. The place a strip of your cardstock on top of the mod podge
6. Then put another layer on top of the cardstock, sit aside to dry
7. Repeat steps 4-6 for all of your clothes pins
8. Once your board and clothes pins are dry, use a small dab of hot glue on the back of the clothes pin and place on the board where you want it. (I like things even and symmetrical so I place my two middle ones first and then worked outwards)
9. Now cut a strip of ribbon according to the size of your board, mine that I used was about a 18inches.
10. Staple the ribbon to the back of the board.

T-shirtI

I also made a t-shirt for Mack today too...I get all my fonts off of microsoft word, I just print, cut, trace and cut again. Pretty easy, but I really want a cricut!! Maybe I will get one for my Birthday! : )

More baby stuff....

I made baby Mack a few bibs today, I found them at Wal-Mart..6 to a pack, all different colors! I used fabric and wonder under just like I did on the onesies. Here are the 3 I made today....

Test....

Trying to see if the blogger app I got for my iPhone would post!

Background Change..

The background change is for you Courtney!! Ha! Thanks for bringing it to my attention that I still had a Christmas background over a month after it was over, it was time to change!! : )

More crafting...

After doing the painting on the onesises....I decided to get into fabric!! Thanks to Courtney telling me about Wonder Under I now think it is the greatest thing ever!! First thing I did was cut a piece of fabric and a piece of wonder under the same size...then iron on the fabric, place the back of the fabric to the rough side of the wonder under then iron. Then take your image, letters or whatever you choose on the back ** Make sure it is backwards. Then trace and cut out! Then gently peel off the back of the wonder under and place on your clothes (in my case agian, I used a onesie) and then iron on!!! It's that simple!

Oh and my newphews name is going to be David Mack and is going to be called "Mack" so that's why I made M's!!! : )

Also, here is a video that I used to help me learn how to do this the first time! Wonder Under!

Been Awhile....

Here are a few things I have been up too....I have a nephew expected to arrive on March 5th and I have already started making him clothes. I can't wait for him to arrive!!  I found the idea how to make stencils out of freezer paper. It's super easy to do and it was a lot of fun as well!! All you do is find an image you want and print it out and lay it under the freezer paper (shiny side down) and then cut it out, then you iron on the stencil on the fabric (In my case, I used plain white onesies I bought at Wal-Mart ) then you can either paint with facric paint or I did mine using Arylic Paint - When using arylic paint, you will mix it with fabric medium - 2 arylics to 1 fabric medium. Then after using a blow dryer to make sure that your paint it dry (may need to use 2 or more coats, depending on the the color of fabric or paint) and lift up the stencil carefully. And now the last step is to lay a towel over your painted image and iron over for about ten seconds. These directions may be a little confusing but here is a link to a video that I found was a lot of help! Freezer Paper Stenciling Also here are my finsihed products!