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Easy Peasy “Bread Queen” Personalized Apron

Danielle — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:30:19 +0000

Made using heat-set Easy Weed vinyl and a cheap cotton apron.

Personalization with vinyl is the easiest way to make a quick, fun gift (not to mention all the organization uses… my heart flutters at the thought!). The ability to do this at any time for minimal cost is something I’m really going to miss about my job. I made this apron for my friend BJ, who is a culinary arts major and self-proclaimed Bread Queen, and I’m really happy with the way it turned out. She and I are are members of the same social club at school, and our colors are red and yellow, which explains the interesting (ketchup and mustard) color choice. The text I used is Sweetheart Script, a personal favorite which I also used on my Christmas stockings (though they were embroidery and not vinyl), while the loaf of bread comes from a free font called FOOD! by Alan Carr.

My scholarship refund will come in soon. While my plan is to save as much money as possible, I’m wondering if it would be worth it to invest in a Cricut, or something similar. Are those kinds of things are sold used anywhere? I’ve also heard rumors of Cricuts turning up at places like Dirt Cheap, but never been lucky enough to find one myself.

Homemade Holidays: Sweet Little Shirts

Danielle — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:44:08 +0000

I knocked out another Christmas gift yesterday, albeit a fairly easy one. The hardest part was deciding which animals in which colors to put on the shirts. Runners up are: a fat grizzly bear, a sweet kitten, and a flamingo. I was also debating about lime green on the teal shirt and pink on the purple shirt, but that was Too Much. So I decided on a silver unicorn and weenie dog because they have the coolest silhouettes. These sweet little shirts are for my younger sister Dawsen, who just turned four.

The newspaper in the background is what I've been using to wrap gifts. Pictures coming soon

Dawn is getting her a stick unicorn, maybe she can wear this while she rides it!

The unicorn is part of the font SL Mythological Silhouettes, and the dachshund is from WM Animals 2.

The dark spots aren't really there, the silver is just really reflective.

A Bundle of Birthdays

Danielle — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:07:18 +0000

It seems like everyone I know has a birthday in October or November. These are just the beginning of what will probably be tons of birthday and (yikes!) Christmas presents that I should be completing over the next couple of months.

Three simple, sweet dinosaur shirts.

What three year old boy doesn’t love dinosaurs? I was very proud when he opened his gift and recognized the triceratops and t-rex immediately! To make these sweet shirts, I simply ironed heat-set vinyl that I cut out in dinosaur shapes (found at Dinosaurcentral.com) on to simple long-sleeved Garanimals shirts.

All wrapped up and ready to go!

I have some grown-up friends who I think would really enjoy some dino shirts like these.

Future goal: figure out how to get the cover to lie flat.

One of my dearest friends (and neighbor, and classmate) Chelsey also had a birthday this past week. We are taking a poetry class together, so I made her a matching journal and pencils using the same craft paper and matte mod podge method that I used on my pimento jar lids a while back. This is really the easiest trick, but it makes a boring composition book and pencils look very sweet.

All wrapped up and ready to go!

All of the pencils are covered in some long-forgotten Hobby Lobby scrapbook paper leftovers, while the two bigger pieces for the front and back of the journal are a thicker kind of Martha Stewart craft paper.

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