Growth Chart

I have been wanting to make one of these for a while now. 

We are a military family and we will be moving around for the rest of our lives. 

I really wanted to have a door or something to mark the growth of my kids but I know that we wont have a home like that so this was my solution. I can track my kids growth in every place we live. 

This is what I used:

Wood: I used a 1x6 that is 6ft tall. I got mine from Home Depot it was already finished. 

Numbers cut on Cricut.

Square

Tape measure

Sharpie

Hammer and something to hang it on the wall.

First I used my tape measure to make marks ever inch all the way up my board.

Once I have marks ever inch then I used my square and sharpie to make marks like this.

My mark lengths were in this order.

1 inch

1 inch

1 1/4 inch

1 inch

1 inch

1 1/2 inch

1 inch 

1 inch 

1 1/4 inch 

1 inch

1 inch

2 inches

I hope the make sense so at the half foot mark my line was an inch and a half long and at the foot line my mark was 2 inches long. 

Then I put my Cricut number next to the 2 inch lines.

With my numbers I did not start at 0 I started at 6 inches. So number 1 is only 6 inches from the bottom. When I hang it on the wall I want the bottom to be six inches from the floor.

I measured six inches from the floor and made a mark on my wall with a pencil. 

Then I put my metal piece to hang it up on the back and used the tooth paste technique to know where to put the nail in the wall to hang my board. 

Toothpaste Technique

Once it is hanging you can measure your kiddos!

Cool right! I think so :)

Heartfelt Wall Hangings

Over the weekend my mom and I visited our new favorite craft store! Heartfelt Wall Hangings is a cute little vinyl and craft shop in West Jordan Ut. Each month Heidi offers a free craft  related to the fallowing month. This month it is a Thanksgiving craft. She offers classes each day where you can come to her shop and work on your free craft and any other crafts you purchase. She offers all her paints, sander, glitter spray and help to make your vinyl craft.

This is her free craft for October. Is simple yet so cute to get your home ready for Thanksgiving!

While we were there we found these cute blocks too!

Each month the "O" changes to fit the season or holiday. I will be going back in November to make one with a ornament and snowflake for December and January. Here is an example of each month. 

 

We will be going back for more free crafts and all the other cute ideas they have at Heartfelt!

Holiday Crafting

 I couple of weeks ago my friends and I got together to make this found on none other than Pinterest. So when I went back to Utah I made something similar with my mom. It's super easy, cheap and turned out really well too.

 We bought a 4x4 at a hardware store for around $8 and had them cut 2 at 12", 2 at 10" and 2 at 8". Sanded and painted then added White vinyl cut with the Cricut machine at 1.5". I decided to take the craft from the link above and make it my own so I cut out a star from scrapbook paper using the Cricut and ModPodged it on. We made one for my mom and one for Makenna. I mine at home already.

 Since the 4x4 came in 8' pieces we had a ton left over, so we cut these. I think they are 9" and 7" in length. I like that each one turned out a little differently.

 

 Mom wanted crazy letters.

 We made Mak's just simple and cute.

The only difference in mine is capital letters.

We sure had fun making these together. Thanks mom for a great time and letting me make a mess of your kitchen table.