Mama Monday #3

Mr. Monday is back and ready to attack! A-T-T-A-C-K...attack, Attack, ATTACK! (that is the cheerleader in me coming out! HeeHee!)
 Here is this week's Mama Monday. I am sure that you all have seen, oh about a thousand, blog posts about making silhouettes but I had to do some and then of course I had to share them with you! For Christmas the kids and I made hand trees for the hubba hubba/daddy of the castle. He LOVED them and we had a blast making them!! Unfortunately, we have never taken the time to figure out a place to display them...until now but that is another post for another day.
I did not just want to stick up the hand trees without something special for each kiddo and I did not want the wall looking like a kooky forest.
SO, for father's day we made silhouettes for all 4 kids but it turned out to be a process, which I will now explain!

Dusty,dirty, dingy, disgusting, old nasty, gnarly picture

frames that have been in storage for quite a while. I would

have no idea how long but a long gross time!

Ewwww! Yucky! Are you getting all of that grimy

grossness? So, first I had to clean 4 picture frames and

disinfect them but let's face it they were NASTY!

Then I got out my FAVORITE spray paint

EVER!!! RUST-OLEUM!!! (I know some

of you use a different brand (which I will never,

ever, ever, EVER, name here) but I still love you!

Check out this color! Textured Metallic SILVER

It is B-E-A-U-tiful! LOVE!

The Princess wanted to help too! So of course

I let her! She is a fabulous model, isn't she! And let's

not forget Melanie there in the back ground!

HI MELANIE! Plus, it doesn't hurt to have one more picture

of my favorite spray paint! I need a shirt that says

I {heart} Rust-Oleum!

(P.S. I am not being compensated for mentioning

Rust-Oluem. I really do think that it is a SUPERIOR

product!)

And I sprayed my old grungy picture frames in hopes that

they turn out beautifully!

(I know some one, not mentioning any names here, needs a hair cut

but we have been too busy enjoying our summer and he likes to

scream bloody murder when he gets his hair cut. NOT A FUN TIME)

While I was waiting for the paint to dry I decided that

instead of watching it dry I would move on to the next

in my project. So I lined my kiddies up and snapped pics

of their profiles, and printed them on regular printer paper.

Once everything printed, I cut out the little heads as seen above.

Then, I traced them on to card stock and cut them out again.

Whew, hard work!

I got some blue card stock (see up there), cut it down

to 8 x 10 size, glued my little kids silhouettes in the center,

put the frames back together, and

TA-DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Oh crud, there are already teeny, tiny

finger prints on the glass. It sure is a

shiny little finger print isn't it. HOLD PLEASE, while

I go clean that off...

Awww, the princess! I did a little extra

cutting to make it look like her hair was in

a pony...but I did it in the shape of a heart.

She is too sweet, huh!?!

Dang, more finger prints. Those kids

love these pictures!

Her is my little munchkin face! Isn't

he the cutest thing, EVER?

And there you have our FD Gift No. 1!

Check how AWESOME the paint looks!

How cool is that? I HIGHLY recommend giving

this color a try! I need to find some other things to paint

this color. I am thinking STARBURST Mirror. Ohhhh, that

would be perfect!

I hope you enjoyed this little family craft! I know we did! Stay tuned because this project is just the beginning of what we did for the hubba hubba for Father's Day! I will be here all week but for now the FROG has left the building.

HUGS