The random Number Generator selected comment #1, which was my real-life friend friend Korie using her husband’s account, so Korie & Jarrod, you are getting the Christmas print 🙂
Also, I have my own exciting news-today I won a blog giveaway for the first time! Someday Crafts did a give away of 2 crochet patterns from Jenny and Teddy and I won! I’m getting the bunny and the little girl named rose. Now to brush up on my crochet skills…
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Remember Colorforms? I loved those things as a little girl.
Then I saw these fabulous plates on At Second Street. And I was amazed!!! How brilliant.
I was inspired by her plate rubbings idea to create some personalized coloroforms for my kids.
These things are freakin’ awesome! (if I do say so myself)
It’s not a plate (because I’m that mom, the one who is less than thrilled about the idea of playing with food.)
It started with a piece of cardboard cut from the top of a box.
I covered in it two layers of canvas drop cloth, attached with Spray Adhesive.
Then I printed a picture of each of the kids. I put them in PicMonkey and used the “pencil sketch” option first to make things easier for myself.
I went over the main features with pencil using thick, dark lines.
Then I turned the pictures upside down and rubbed them with the blunt end of a butter knife. You have to rub really hard. When you transfer, the picture will be backwards on your finished product.
The rubbings were really light. (This is after I traced over them again with the pencil.)
I traced over them with a Sharpie Fabric Marker.
Then I cut sun glasses, mustaches, and bow ties, eye patches, etc. out of felt and had way too much fun de-facing my children…
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Baby Gap is selling these toddler overalls this year.
Which made me think, “I could make those.”
Guess what? It’s not even that hard.
I just traced a pair of overalls Abby already had onto a sweater.
I cut out the front and the back and got two pieces that looked like this.
I sewed the sides and the inseam shut (I was going to do buttons for easier diaper changes, but then I got lazy)
I cut out straps and pockets out of the sleeves and sewed them into place, then I added buttons to the front and finished all of the exposed edges with zigzag stitches.
(If you want to do a size larger than 18 months you will probably need to use a sweater dress instead of a normal sweater for the extra length.)
I love the way they turned out!
Plus they were free. Beat that, Baby Gap.
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