dish washing solution

There are only 2 of us living in our apartment, yet somehow, the sink is always full of dirty cups. For whatever reason, husband and I just get out a new cup every time we get a drink. Sometimes we try to strategically place our cups so that we'll remember which one is ours, to be able to just use it again, but I always forget, or get mixed up, and then just give up and get out another cup. Enough is enough.

Enter: crafty solution

One particularly crafty evening, while husband was doing lots and lots of boring homework, I decided to stop the cup madness. I got out some cute paper I had under my bed, cut it out into circles a little bigger than our cups, and wrote our names on them. Then I covered each paper circle, top and bottom, with clear packing tape.

our new happy little coasters

Ta da! No more cup confusion. This crafty solution has been awesome. We've been using it now for a few weeks, and the cup pile-up has ended. Someday I might upgrade our little paper/plastic coasters, but for now, it was a quick and happy solution.

freeze chuck

This was my first attempt at a freeze paper painted shirt. I've seen very fun possibilities with this crafty skill, so I am trying develop this talent. This particular shirt was done for Blaine. Since he's been a roommate of little brother for so long, Blaine is practically family. I know the boy loves Chuck Norris, so, this is what I came up with.

First, I found this image of Chuck Norris on the internet and printed it out on regular printer paper. Then I taped it to some freezer paper and cut out the image with an exacto knife. It was a little tricky, but I think he turned out all right, and you can definitely still tell it is Chuck. I bought the navy blue tshirt at DI for $1. After washing it (cuz it's from DI of course) I ironed the freezer paper on to the shirt. The paper has to be ironed with the shiny side down, and only use dry heat with the iron. 

 Next came the paint application. I'm gonna have to find out a better source for fabric paint. This particular yellow came from my mum's laundry room...and I'm pretty sure we bought it in the early 90's. I've heard you can get a medium to mix with acrilic paint, so that you can just use acrilic to paint with...which would be a pretty cheap option. I'll investigate that further for next time.

After a few coats of yellow paint, with some help from the hairdryer to speed up the drying process, I carefully peeled off the white freezer paper.

Ta da! A new birthday shirt to give to birthday boy Blaine.