She's crafty!

Friday night was the Shaker Heights Ward Fall Freaky Friday activity. Every year we have a craft night a few months before Christmas. Actually, it's usually a Super Saturday where we're all at the church doing our thing all morning long. We couldn't do that this year due to a building conflict, so we were there until midnight or later on Friday. I only signed up for two of the projects, and I'm glad, because I got to spend my time on them, instead of only being able to do half of each of six different projects.

Here's the first one. I sanded down the board, painted it, let is dry, then pressed on two layers of acrylic lettering. The acrylic thing has become really popular in Utah in the last few years, and people make signs like this, or it can be pressed directly onto the wall, so that it looks like custom painting.


I'm not sure where exactly to put it, because the color won't work very well in our living room, which is another taupe-ish sort of color. In the picture above, it's set against the beautiful dark red walls of our dining room, but Ben and I both think it's a little weird to put a name sign like that up in...the dining room. So we're looking for a plan B.

I also made some magnets. Right now, the magnets on our fridge consist of tiny poetry pieces from Ben's bachelor apartment, miscellaneous lesson handouts from Relief Society, and Lexapro handouts from drug reps at my last job. The little magnetic poetry pieces will have to come down when MJ is big enough to get to them, and we don't really have any decent-looking magnets. Plus, these were fun to make.

So I just wanted to share.