For the first time in seven years I am home with Mom, Dad, Matt, and Rex for fall (because of jaw surgery and a contract at the
Walnut,) which means my baking and decorating adventures will be a little more grounded and maybe partially funded by my parents, but we'll see. On the first day of autumn I whipped out my seven halloween decorations and two Frankenstein's Monster mugs and started playing Ella and Louis and
The Nightmare Before Christmas. One of my
favorite quotes is Oogie Boogie's response to Santa's, "Well, what are you going to do?" which is, "I'm gonna do the best I can." I've had "Make an inspirational poster of 'I'm gonna do the best I can'" in my reminders app for idk how long, and a few weeks ago I finally decided to do something about it. The result was some downloaded text and a half hour on Photoshop, and the design ended up on
Instagram. But yesterday I decided I would make a tangible decoration based on my graphic. Michael's sells these small mounted
burlap panels in that section with their steam punk looking things. Perfect.
My instinct was to make my own
graphite paper, press the my design onto the burlap, then paint on top of the sketch. I printed out the design, scribbled on the back of the paper with a pencil, taped it to the panel, and traced the letters.
Oh no this type of transfer doesn't work with burlap.
Instead I decided to punch through the paper with a sharpie at the points of the text then play connect the dots on the burlap.
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| Tape your text to the burlap and don't do drugs |
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Punch some holes to make marks on the fabric beneath, lift paper, then play connect the dots.
Kindergarten should have prepared you for this. Do the best you can. |
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| I don't know where I'm going to display this, but I'm tempted to keep it out all year. I made this scarecrow at my third grade Halloween party and he comes out every year. He's supposed to sit on the end of a shelf and let his jingle bell feet dangle, but that sounds dangerous and I don't trust. On November 1st I turn him to the side to hide the jack-o-lantern patch so I can keep him out through Thanksgiving. |
