It has been over a month since I have posted
anything, I don’t know how time got away from me! I started to write
about a few projects in December and never got around to putting them on
the blog. So, even though time has passed and the holidays are over I am going
to put them up!
Today’s post: Signs. I made two signs in
December, one for my niece, Audrey, and the other for my Mom as a birthday
gift. (Side note… my adorable and teeny tiny niece Audrey was born one week ago!!
I will definitely be posting pictures of her!) The other signs I am putting up
are decorative holiday signs that my cousin made for her family this Christmas.
The sign for baby Audrey’s nursery was String
Art, I have done a few of them before and posted a blog last summer showing a
little ‘how to’. It is super simple: Board, stain or paint, nails, hammer and
yarn or string. Choose the shape or word you would like, print and cut an
outline to trace onto your wooden board, hammer the nails around the shape and
then go crazy filling in the shape by stringing and wrapping the yarn from
nail to nail until you are happy with how it looks.
My Mom’s birthday gift was a ‘Family Birthdays’
sign that she had seen online and liked. It’s an easy way to show all family
birthdays and a reminder of whose is next. Below each month hangs the
birthdays, in order, with the family members name and day! We still need to
finish filling in the rest of the birthdays on hers. I made the sign with the
help of my cousin and her new Silhouette Cameo. (Popular Product Alert!!)
I wrote about my very talented cousin a few
months ago after I stayed with her and she helped make curtains and
pillows for our home. While I was at her house she received an extremely
awesome package in the mail, the Silhouette Cameo. If you
don’t know what the Silhouette Cameo is I suggest you look it up, that goes for
any and all crafters, moms, teachers and DIYers…men too, because your wives
will want one! It is the coolest machine and does SO many things, I can’t even
begin to explain everything you can make with it.
Her Silhouette was delivered right in time to
make gifts for her family, so she cut, stained and painted all of the boards,
decided what designs and sayings she wanted and went to work making all of the
signs! I love how different they all are and how cute they turned out!
In my next post I will update with things going
on around here in the Poplin house! A little shout out to Amanda and Nathan on their gorgeous baby girl, welcome to the world Audrey!!! I hope everyone is enjoying the new year so
far!!
xoxo,
Rachele
