As a busty woman with an excess of gravity around me, I often have tops with annoying little stains on them. I thought stencils might be a good way to camouflage an otherwise perfectly good shirt. V occasionally gets persistent stains, too, but more often than not, I find her several thrift store t-shirts in boring solid colors. To encourage her artistic side, I let her pick her stencils, and the colors. She picked a turtle in green, a butterfly (“let’s make it a monarch!”), and most enthusiastically, a boom box. Or, as she called it, a boom-boom-boom box.
We had to mix the orange from the available red and yellow (hello, learning!) but it turned out orange-r than it looks here, I promise. Note to self: more yellow, less red next time.
I tried to get her to make a pink turtle, to use up some of that pink, but she would have none of it.
Sadly, the monarch is already a touch small. New nightgown for cousin Emmy!But the turtle and the boom box are pretty fantastic. The paint has a decent hand to it, not too stiff, and though sometimes it didn’t work as well as I’d hoped(those projects are not pictured, to protect everyone involved), I think this was a good first run.
Shedid, after all, wear the boom box to school today.
Shedid, after all, wear the boom box to school today.
1 comment:
love it! Loved the shirt she wore to school btw! V is lucky to have a crafty mom like you to do all these fun, memorable projects with!I still tell the kids how my mom taught me how to do needlepoint.
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