Please Sign Here

I've been a sign-making fool lately! It's so much fun, super easy, and pretty darn rewarding in the end. I love it so much that I thought I'd share:

Supplies:

Desired size of either canvas or wood

Acrylic Paint

Paint Brush

Alphabet Stickers

(These have to be pretty large and can easily be found in your local craft store - most likely with the scrapbooking stuff) I have also spotted them at Walmart!

Step One: Apply stickers onto the canvas spelling out anything you would like.. This could be really cute in a baby's room, bathroom, really the possibilities are endless. You should be able to peel them on and off the canvas if you need to move them around..

Step Two: Paint the entire canvas in whichever color you choose! You will be painting OVER the stickers, so it is very important to press those stickers into the canvas pretty good when you have come up with a good layout -- you don't really want the paint to sneak under those stickers!

Step Three: Listen to some relaxing music, color with your kids, eat a brownie and then return to your canvas when it's dry.. (maybe an hour?)

Step Four: (my favorite part) Gently peel away the stickers to see your message! Also important to keep a slightly damp paper towel handy - as some paint may have slipped under a sticker or two, and it can be dabbed up easily.

*I also used the eraser from a pencil and painted a few circles on my canvas to add a little something extra.. not necessary, but pretty adorable right?

Here are a few other examples of the signs that I've made using this technique. I love EACH ONE!!!

(This sign was an experiment with newspaper/modge podge) It turned out nice, but was a little bit more time-consuming than the others, and Hey, I have a two year old here. ;)

When life hands you lemonade...

Seeing how the title of this brand new blog is called "Mud & Lace", I thought we'd start right there - with my brand new Lacey Vase. I picked up this sweet glass bottle at my local gas station.. for about $1.75. It was filled with Hubert's Lemonade. I want to say that I bought it for the lemonade, but really the glass bottle won me over first. The lemonade, however, was a pleasant surprise. Anyways, I knew from the moment I saw it that I wanted to make some sort of vase out of it. What I ended up doing was Modge Podging an old shirt of mine (which was made of mostly lace) to it, and really that was all that needed to be done. If you don't want to destroy one of your shirts, you can just use a plain old scrap of lace.

If you are unfamiliar with modge podge, it's this nifty little concoction of 1/2 Elmer's glue and 1/2 water. I'm not sure why it needs to be watered down first, but it works.

Seeing how this is the lazy edition of this project - I didn't quite measure anything out, I just eyeballed it and it turned out pretty sweet if I do say so myself. There may be more lemonade in my future - and hopefully yours too!

Supplies:

Elmer's Glue (or any old sticky glue should work just fine)

Water

Paint brush

Cheapo Glass Jar

Scrap of Lace large enough to wrap your chosen cheapo glass jar