Mr. Fried Rice's company flew him to Seattle Friday night to pick up a truck and spend most of Saturday driving it home. What better time to indulge in my first do-it-yourself project: the out of towner bags.I purchased a bunch of canvas bags from the dollar bin at Target. Inspired by knottie Stefanie, I created a beach umbrella stencil with a fiber bars box and an exacto knife. Turns out fiber bar boxes are a bit too thick, so the California Pizza Kitchen frozen pizza for one box worked better. How fitting.
I had to play around with the colors, particularly the yellow, to get it right. I ended up using the gold and blue metallic tulip fabric paint.
I think they are fantabulous! I'm considering adding the word "welcome" along the bottom, but only if I can find a stencil that already says that. I'm no good at spacing letters.
Now, what to fill them with - water, snacks, sunscreen, a visitors guide to Cambria, a letter with our favorite places to visit. Any other suggestions?
Now I want to do more DIY! I know I want to do tags for the parasols - but what to put on them, names? And I just may also steal Stefanie's idea with the 101 reasons I love FI, but how to present them? What else can I do?
2 comments:
Congrats on the blog! I love the to-do list on the side. Can't wait to see all of your projects.
Awesome! Those are beautiful!! If you do decide to do the welcome, here's a tip - Just type it out into Word in a thicker/blockier font. Play around, change sizes, etc. Then, you can print it out and tape it down to a pizza box (:) hehe) and exacto knife through both layers. That should help with your spacing issues. I'm so excited to see more details of your wedding. yay!! :)
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