DIY Halloween Costume

The Incredibles!!

We had an early Halloween party to go to so I got our costumes done last week.

Here is what I did:

I found Mom and Dads sweat pants and long sleeved T at Wal-mart for $6 each.

Dash's T and pants also Wal-mart for about $4 each.

Jack-Jack onesie at DI $2.

I painted the logo on our t shirts with crafts paint like this:

For the Gloves I used regular knit gloves from Wal-mart and cut the feet off a pair of socks to make them longer. 

For the boots I pulled the same type of socks I used for the gloves over our shoes. For Dash I folded them back over to make them a good size for her. 

For the masks I used this tutorial.

If you are better with a sewing machine than I am, here is a tutorial from someone who sewed instead of painted on the logo. She also has a tutorial for sewing the black bottoms.   

Christmas Crafts

I have been crafting a little this December but I didn't want to blog about it because I was doing most of it as gifts. 

I got this idea from Mon Petit Violon she had a ton a great patterns. If you decide to try this one I would recommend making them smaller than your shoe size.  

I got this idea from Sarah Ortega she explains in great detail how to make these. I did one for my Mom, sister and my self. My Mom's is in the center there is a bead for each of her children. I thought about doing birth stone colors but we all have a red birthstone so I did favorite colors instead. My sisters in the brown one and it has one bead. She is expecting her first child in April, and the birthstone in April is a diamond, so I did a clear bead. Mine has two beads one for my daughter who was born in November and one for my second child who is due in May. 

For these I just used a washer, scrapbook paper and mod podge. I cut them out with a whole punch and scissors. They were super simple, I just did a layer of mod podge on the washer and a few layers on top.  

This idea came from pinterest. I saw this quote and loved it. I made this for both my Mom and my Mother-in-law! 

Christmas Countdown

Last year Makenna made a Christmas advent calendar out of blocks and I have been wanting to do the same. So, for Super Saturday this year there was a craft that used blocks so instead of making the craft they were meant for I took them home and made this out of them.

Now we will know that how many days there are left until Christmas. I think that they turned out really well.

Spring/Easter Blocks

As you might already know the words spring and easter both have 6 letters, so my Mom, sister and I thought why not make one set of blocks out of the two words. So we got six blocks each a different size, we painted them each a different color and on one side we put the word Spring and on the other we put Easter. 

We used a cricket to cut out the letters, each block is a different size so each letter is also a different size. To make sure that the letters fit the blocks the way we wanted to we cut the letters first out of paper then we cut them out of vinyl. For my blocks I cut Spring in yellow vinyl and kept the paint solid, then cut the letters of Easter out on white vinyl and sanded the edges of my blocks. 

The thing about doing crafts with other people is that you can do the same craft and have the ending creation look so much different than the others. These blocks have a hint of accent on the edges, as well as different order of sizes and colors.

Its also fun to mix it up by using different fonts for each block and deciding to use capital letters of lower case to make it look your own. Lets see what you can come up with.

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