Transferring Kid's Art to Fabric Tote
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Comments (15)Taunia Please thank Barbieboop and thank you for posting it.Ithink you can save it to your files and then add a column. This is sure going to help me in my craft room The only thing I added was the freezer paper. There are a couple of things I'm not familiar with but will ask about them later on. ABCs and rubber stampingon Sat, Jan 18, 03 at 23:46 I thought this was cute; the list was made by barbieboop: (edited by Minnie-Tx) ABCs & rubber stamping Lets have some fun! ABC's and rubberstamping: how many stamping products are there? can we make a list of them from a-z? A adhesive, adventerous (I mean you've got to try some new things!), acetate, artistic wire, aluminum foil, amazing glaze, appliques, art markers, acrylic blocks, Anti-Static bag, Angel Dust- a stamping powder, B brayer, buying, blending, blender, book making, books, beedz, beads, baby wipes bleach, buttons background papers bone folder boxes C chalk collozzle creating crafting cutting circle cutters crystal laquer chocolate charms corrugator compressed sponges cardstock color wheel confetti cold laminate collage cutting board Carving tools and erasers COOL FINGERS Corner Pro Corner rounder Corner punches D die cuts dream weaver stencils dry embossing/de bossing diamond glaze, Dr. Martin's of course dried flowers in paper double-sided adhesive tape Duplo CS daubers (finger and mini) decorator papers decorative scisors dimension deckle scissors DOTS--the stamps and the POP kind E embossing powders embossing pens Envelopes, EVOS templates exacto knife erasers, F fun foam fairy dust fabric ink FINGERS french fry box (makes a wonderful pattern) fibers foam board Fit-It Custom Template Printing cd-rom foils flock fabric Faerie Dust Faerie Myst Paints Faerie Glass Fiskars paper edgers freeform emboss Freezer Paper Flesh color pencils by Lyra Fuschia ink & pads funtustic??? funky film??? G glue glitter glitter glue gel pens gold leaf glossy paper glue stick garanimals tags( makes a neat image on a card) gem stones glimmer glow spray glycerin, H heat gun hand made paper HALOS hole punches heart templates, I ink ink pads interference IRON, J juicy ink pads and pens junk- for embellishing jewelry (good for collage) jump rings jelly rollers (pens) Jute Joss Paper (you can find it at oriental markets) Judikins K kat trax tool-(A kat trax tool is something the radiant pearls people put out to stipple the radiant pearls with. Kind of like a wiry brush- holly.) Knives KAI's scissors kid fingers kaleidacolors Kreate a lopes, L liquid Applique loop lace liquid crystal light box, M marvey markers metallic rub ons metallic markers Memories ink pads mulberry paper Mica milwaukee heat gun marbled stone marbles mulberry paper MaGill Punches magic Melt Embossable Pearls N new techniques new stamps nail polish (for background tech.) needlenoise nylon ribbon Nesting Templates Neopaque paints??? O oval templates oval cutters orginal works of art organizers O- rings for dangly things ORGANZA RIBBON Orgami papers Oil pastels! P puff paint pearl ex pigment ink perm. Ink powdered pearls pens pencils paint brushes paper paint(tulip paint for fabric, embellishments) PolyShrink Positioner paper punches PATTERNS-COOL SHAPPED CARD postage stamps cancelled paper towels polymer clay PAPERMAKING KITS PAPERCASTING KITS PAPERPUNCHES FOR PUNCH ART penscore paper clay Q q tips for blending and chalks QUOTES FOR INSPIRATION Quick drying glue Quilt cards Quilling toolsuestions R rubber stamps rubber radiant pearls ranger ink pads rice in a balloon for a background stamp ruler rubber bands ribbon raffi re-inkers Rollagraphs, S stenciling stippling sponges sayings stamps salad spinner shelf liner sticker paper Stickles- (acid-free glitter glue by Ranger) scoring tools scissors salt!-(for watercolor resist technique) spackle Scotch tape shrink art SWAPS scraps STAPLES shaker cards and supplies scrubber-used to scrub the ink off your stamps stylus seed beeds and sugar beeds String self healing mat T tidy tray tea bag folding tranparancybeing toilet paper- (faux paper casting with tp, starch, water and bold stamps) tria tags Tape templates TOMBOW markers tack it over and over U UTEE umounteds Ultimate Embossing Powder unry paper(like mulberry) UHU glue sticks, V vivid ink pads velvet paper vellum paper velvet to stamp on Velcro vacuum (from the mess of the embossing powder) Versa Mark vinyl- for attaching ums to acrylic blocks VIDEOS FOR TEACHING, W wax seals water colors (crayons, paint, or pencils) wire water wonder under wonder tape weaving wire cutters Window card washi paper X xyron machine Xtreme Gel Pens (The BEST gel pens! They color beautifully on laminate! X-acto Knife xerox paper Xray film for templates, Y YES glue yarn yards of ribbon yard stick Y&G gel pens Z zebra pens Zenas stamps Zip lock baggies... Can YOU add to the list?...See MoreIdeas for Christmas gifts for kids/grandkids
Comments (27)oh to have them all that young again...the 16 yo want's some fancy eyeshadow with chocolate..OMG the darn thing is her entire $50...are you kidding me?? worse is her sister wanted a $150 fitbit...well that isn't happening! with 9 kids to buy for I have to keep a strict budget...now the littlest one 3, wanted a glitter hair Barbie (another omg) but at least I had enough left for her safety helmet for her trike...her brother wanted a sta rwars art kit...had a coupon for that...kind of made me mad though...had generic one at Costco that was huge...but as dh said star wars is on the hot list...ds1 wh just got divorced this year hasn't sent me a list for his 2...as much as dh hates them, they love money...(and have a LOT less to spend these days, sigh)...See Morecommand center/kids station help
Comments (11)What I meant by: "I'm not a fan of having kids keep records in two places" was that I don't think they should rewrite their homework assignments on the whiteboard AND in the notebook from school. And from 18 years of backpacks x 2 kids--I am NOT a fan of hooks for backpacks. Backpacks are HEAVY. And I've had those straps, or the fabric around them, give way. I wouldn't want to continuously stress them like that. Kids just want to drop their book bags down somewhere (one quick motion, instead of fiddling with threading the handle over the hook). Why fight that natural instinct? I suggested something like the crate on the floor so they or you can also toss in Thursday's gym sneakers and the lunch bag and not have them fly all around. Also, with some sort of bin or crate to chuck their backpack in, then any "take with" stuff can just go in in the crate, under or over the backpack itself. No looking in another spot, no "remembering to write a note." I've done this "everything goes on the backpack" with my kids and it was really powerful. (I always poke myself on hooks, which is part of my aversion to them--though I'd probably also trip over the crates/bins) Speaking of tripping: Don't put this in that hallway. Put it where there's more floor space. Partly also because (if I'm interpreting your pictures right) you can see that wall from farther away, so it will be able to serve as a visual reminder. Regarding this: "for now until my boys are bit older where i would need to implement more organization skills for their homework/ongoing assignments." Start implementing those organizational skills now. Now is the time to teach them to create a time period for filling out calendars, surveying the special projects, etc. Do it while things are really simple. And teach them to do it, and why. And I completely agree with this: "the white board calendars are very limiting." I agree that the "seeing one month at a time" is limiting, but I really object to whiteboard calendars. I like multi-month paper calendars. So you can write something two or three months away, right away, and not have to transfer it later. So you can sit down and write all the recurring stuff on every day. To take care of hmorton's objection (and it's a sensible one), I'd hang the calendar on a hook in a bulletin board with a space above it, and when the month changes, I'd tear off the top calendar and pin it to the bulletin above the calendar. Then you can see two months at once. (the only downside is that if you want to keep the calendar pages as a practical or sentimental record, it's loose pages now, but you could probably handle that easily too.) as for how to make it: I'd probably use Martha Stewart's favorite tactic of cutting a huge piece of Homasote to use for a wall-size bulletin board and covering it with fabric. Then I could attach a blackboard, a small whiteboard, a calendar, whatever. And I could move things around easily if it turned out I needed to. Homasote doesn't necessarily hold a screw tremendously well (for heavier stuff), but if you had a carpenter-type person, they could make a wooden frame that would provide some of that support. And you can always drill through the Homasote into the wall behind it to use basic wall anchors or molly bolts (just with a longer screw). I'd want to make a huge bulletin board the same color as the wall, so I'd try to find a coarse fabric roughly the same color as the wall. Or, a coarse neutral fabric, and then thin out the wall paint (get the same color in an acrylic) and paint the fabric to match. (there are lots of tutorials about painting upholstery fabric with regular paint) Also, if the bulletin board goes way up, then I can have a place to pin drawings that come from school, etc. And even decor items like those names can go there. (Permission slips don't get pinned to the board--they get signed and put right back into the "give to the teacher" folder. You might want to pin up the top half of the slip, if your school designs them that way.)...See MoreParents: Did you decorate your kid's dorm room?
Comments (85)Oh, good grief! Anything can be taken out of context and to the worst degree! I’ve purposely avoided this thread after I initially posted, as some posters made it sound like any parent who helped decorate this kid’s dorm room was crushing that child’s own creativity “Mommy-Dearest-like”. In retrospect, I’m sure there are parents like that. And, yes, some of those initially featured pics of rooms are so incredibly unpractical. BUT, there are so many more, like us, where daughters have grown up learning from mothers who are very good at decorating, and they are absorbing and enjoying it, too. They have their own likes and dislikes, which are encouraged and respected. BUT, they still need and want help with storage issues in those minuscule shared dorm rooms, lighting ideas, and a lot of other ideas to consider. It irritates the heck out out of me that some immediately paint the worst scenario when someone (Me) says, yes I did help my daughter decorate her dorm room. No, it was not some impractical designer room. No, it did not make her friends there hate her or her room. But, yes, it was overseen by DD and her roommate with the colors and art they wanted and chose. We mothers did, though, know what and where to find the storage and lighting that would facilitate the very best use of that minimal space. And, we did it at our daughters’ and with our daughters’ blessings. In closing, there are probably as many normal, happy mom-daughter collaborations as there are non/collaborations. Maybe I’m in the minority, having had a great, fun relationship with my own daughter her entire life. I consider it a blessing, but one that takes work. My own daughter has learned and absorbed so much interior design creativity from me over the years. She could easily make it her career if she chose. And, we love trading ideas still. But, even at age five, I allowed her to make the final design decisions with her own personal spaces. Not all decorator mothers are “Mommy Dearest monsters”....See MoreOlychick
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