Freezer Paper Stencil Birthday Tee: Tribal Wolf

I finished Hubby's birthday gift and couldn't wait until the big day to give it to him. Tada! Here's the back of his tribal wolf tee. I love how it turned out! And he loves his new shirt. Which is always good.

The front. I decided to put a profile of a howling wolf on the shirt as well, and the front pocket made a perfect frame.

My homemade stencil. I printed out an image I liked and traced it onto freezer paper. After cutting out the parts I wanted to paint (Ah, exacto knife blisters joy!), all that was left was to apply the paint, let it dry and then heat set it.

Stencil on the back of the shirt. I think it looked awesome once I set it on there. I wish I could have left it just like that, but ah well. I had to paint over it.

It's my first time working with this type of stencil and I'm so ecstatic about it! I'm looking forward to making much more of these types of gifts.

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Birthday Week Day 3 and 4

My baby turns 2 on Friday! I can't explain what a mish mash of feelings wells up in me when I think about that. Contemplative, frantic, thankful, anxious, proud, wishful and scared to death are a few that come to mind. Well, we have a few things to catch up on, but as I always say, the pictures say it best, so here we go:

Baby Boy got a pair of glow sticks and was enchanted with them for all of ten minutes before getting bored and leaving them somewhere.

My wonderful hubby helping me with the decorations.

Handy Manny characters printed out from PlayhouseDisney.com and made into garlands. Baby Boy had to stop every few minutes during his dinner and say "Mahnee! Tools! *unintelligible jibber jabber* Yay!".  At least we know he approves.

The JASON banner and shelf with a few early birthday gifts.

The reason I didn't go to bed until 2 AM last night. The fondant letters from hell. My bro and I worked so hard on these all night! I'm so glad I had help because I never would have gotten it all done. I'll work with fondant again in the future, but I don't think it will be anytime soon ;) Toa is one of Baby Boy's nicknames. It means "Warrior" where I come from.

Birthday Week Day 2

"Mama, look! Ba-baloon! Prilly!". I love it when he says the word pretty. It's sounds so cute :) I tried to tell him it was the moon coming out, not a balloon, but he didn't believe me.

Reaching for the moon. My little sweetie! I hope he never stops.

Running to Mama with cold hands for kisses and warming up :)

Finished Baby Boy's tool belt for all the cool Handy Manny tools his Nana got for him. I think he'll like it! My first 'real' sewing project. I've made handsewn burp cloths before, but those were easy. I really want my own sewing machine now so I can work on more projects!

Toa's crown to wear on his special day. Here it is halfway done. I freehanded a template for the crown and number 2 on cardboard. The mouth of a glass worked great for the circle stencil; I cut little snippets into the edges so it would look prettier against the brown background. I finally finished it today! Whew! We're back on schedule :)

Final product. I bought a pack of plastic jewels and attached them with good old Tacky Glue.

Would you believe the only two large blue jewels in the pack had no reflective backing? Nothing a little aluminum foil and clear nail polish couldn't fix. There. Now they're all shiny and look like they belong on my little prince.

I'm so happy with these projects! On to the cake and room decorations. Wish me luck with the Handy Manny cake. It's going to be a doozy pulling that off.

We had such a busy day that I forgot to sing Happy Birthday and give Baby Boy his 2nd Day gift. Well, he'll just have to get two things tomorrow. I'm really enjoying looking for reasons to create things, even if they're simple things.

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Birthday Week Day 1

Today's the start of my Baby's birthday week! Yay! Well, technically it isn't an entire week, but whatever. So, because it's the first day of his birthday week, Baby Boy got to open a present! He'll get a small gift every day from now until Friday when he'll receive his bigger presents, most of them Handy Manny themed. I'm cutting it really close with the party decorations, cake, etc. Tomorrow I absolutely must finish sewing his birthday crown and tool belt. I'm so glad I have the use of a sewing machine for that. Using a machine is so much easier and fun! Most of the time it's fun. My last sewing session made me want to kick something give up, but even though it was slow going, things got done. Wednesday, I'll focus on making the fondant decorations for the cake. I picked up my first fondant kit and am itching to start but I need to finish everything else before I let myself play with fondant. Ah well.

Baby Boy received a card in the mail. It included a special surprise that had my little boy squealing "Ooooohhhhhh!!! Stehkuhs!". We put the card and stickers up on a shelf in the dining room so he can enjoy looking at them all week.

Just had to let him try out a few :) He was so proud of his stickers.

 

Ahhh, the first birthday gift of the week: Little Rascals on DVD. Baby Boy got to watch it right after opening it. I think he enjoyed the Heman Woman Haters Club a little too much, but oh well. It was fun watching his reaction to the little kiddies and their antics. More goodies to come!

 

This sweet package of little boy sunshine is my motivation to be a better person and to live purposefully. I want to enrich his life and teach him to treasure the little things.