Sunday, October 23, 2011

First I will start by saying I SUCK. I'm not very good at keeping this updated. Honestly, I haven't really done much as far as projects recently, but I did a couple of projects about a month ago at a craft day I had with some friends. If you go back to this post about my upcoming projects, I did do the one where you put lyrics on a painted canvas, spray paint it, and the lyrics show through. Now, I had ALOT of problems trying to come up with lyrics for this project. I bought two packs of vinyl letters (purchased from Michael's), which I clearly thought was enough. Turns out there are A LOT of E's and I's within the words of the English language, so I had to come up with something pretty basic.If someone would want to try this, I would recommend measuring the spacing BEFORE adhering the lettering to the canvas. If you're like me and slightly OCD it WILL drive you crazy that the letters aren't evenly spaced. This is what it looked like before spray paint:


And this is what it looked like after spray paint:


I'm still not exactly sure where I would like to put it in the house, so it's sitting in the unfinished office area (which will hopefully be finished soon).

I also made the soup which I referred to in this blog post.
It turned out well, but unfortunately I did not like it much after it was frozen. The pasta was kind of soggy and blah and in hindsight I would have used more chicken. But if you need a big pot of soup for something, and most of it will be eaten or can be refrigerated for just a couple of days, I'd recommend this one. Here is a picture of the finished product:

And this is the website where I originally found he recipe, which has very detailed instructions. Disclaimer: If you make this, you do need to buy a small chicken (which looks like a chicken), and take its' insides out! Yuck!

3 comments:

  1. hey, I'm as OCD as they come and I like how it's not all centered and perfect... it makes it all the more DIY-er! :)

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  2. i loved craft day! it was so much fun. we should set up craft dates more often.

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  3. Yes, I have a feeling we will be having many craft days!

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