Man, why does it take me so long to post these days? I guess the past couple of weeks have been swamped, and this weekend I spent (listening to General Conference and) printing, high-lighting, color-coding, and seating-chart(ing?) in preparation for the Primary Program at church. ANYWAY.
So I won't go TOO into our family vacation - it's much like last year, and I documented that one pretty well. But I thought it would be fun to make the boys minifig shirts (similar to the Lego birthday shirt) for our day at Legoland.
The girl wanted one, too! Surprise! She is SUPER into Lego right now, though, so it's not really one.
Once again, I just sketched the design (not perfect) and used a freezer paper stencil to make these. EXCEPT, this time was my first using actual fabric paint (metallic for the boys) and I have to say it kicks acrylic paint's butt. Seriously, Kirsten, it's taken you like 5 years to try 'real' fabric paint? That was dumb. I've always used acrylic because I have a lot of it. But I now recommend using fabric paint. Much smoother and turned out softer and nicer.
ANYWAY... Here's a closeup (inadvertantly cropped, too) of the boys. Do you ever just start pointing your point-and-shoot randomly around at places like this? Apparently, I do.
They totally got compliments on their shirts, too - so that was cool.
SOMEONE could have stayed all day in the new Star Wars section of Miniland. Seriously, I'm pretty sure he'd rather have stayed there than done rides or anything else.
I have to say, it was pretty cool.
And I took a ton of photos, which I turned into a Shutterfly photobook for his birthday (shh). Here's a couple of fun scenes.
Funny Legoland story: When we walked in I saw a K-12 booth. Turns out we accidentally came on HOMESCHOOL DAY!!! We could have gotten $20 tickets if we'd known about it ahead of time! Bummer.
