Father's Day Present

You will have to excuse my recent absence, long story short- it has just been a crazy last week with extra errands, hubby's jumbled work schedule, and my little girl getting sick and to top it all off, quit frankly, I just wasn't in the mood to  blog amongst all of that. But here I am, back and ready to roll!

Now I know that because today is Wednesday, I should be sharing a reflecting of past ventures, but with Father's Day right around the corner I thought I would share a fun Father's Day present idea that my little girl and I did in case you need any ideas, and just to share our fun! (now lets just hope my hubby doesn't look at this before Sunday! :)

Since Father's Day is on a Sunday I thought it would be fun to do something he can show off at church. So I made him a tie...

 I got one of his regular ties and laid it on top of the material that I wanted the tie to be made out of and then cut, giving myself plenty of extra, so that I could fold it over. Then I cut and sewed around, but left a little hole about the middle of the tie so that I can turn it right side out as seen below

After turning it right side out, I sewed off this hole

Then I ironed the whole thing nice and flat to get ready to fold it over

Now to fold over the sides, I ironed it nice and flat, and then hand sewed it to stay together so that you can't see the seams from the front (like a tie normally is)

Now with the lovely assistance of my 6 month old girl, we put her hand print on the tie....ya she didn't really want to help, can you tell?

I tried doing some of my own touch up so you could kinda still tell it was her hand, and then I made it look like a flower

Now for the lovely words to go on the tie, I printed off these words on a piece of paper, then I taped freezer paper over the top, just on the top and bottom to hold it in place, and then using an exacto knife I cut out these words- you could paint the words free hand if you want, and after doing all this I prob should have, I think it would have been easier, but I was nervous I wouldn't have very good free hand skills, you could also probably do iron on paper sort of stuff- but that was one more thing I didn't want to buy

Now for painting on the words...

See how it turned out!? I don't know if it was because my words were smaller or I wasn't slow and patient enough, but it still kinda bled through funny even with the stencil, thus my wondering if I should have just done free hand in the first place, oh well- you win some, you loose some! :)

The finished product! Well almost....before officially putting it away in a special box, I realized I made a little typo- see the "Daddy's", well it should actually say "Daddies"...ya something I should have looked at a little closer before painting...but when all else fails...

Paint pretty butterflies to help hide your mistakes, right?- what do you think?

Then for a fun extra $20, at Walmart online, you can upload a picture and have them transform it into a puzzle- cool huh? So this is the picture I sent in, hopefully we will get it in before this Sunday! We love doing puzzles together, so I thought it would be very fitting and fun, and matchy matchy to the tie :)

So there you have it! A fun, cheap easy present for the man! And if you feel crunched on time you wouldn't have to do all the extra tedious things like making a tie, making a stencil, and painting- I am sure there are lots of easier simpler ways of doing this, I guess this was more of a trial present- hope you can learn from it and enjoyed it! But even more so I hope my hubby enjoys it!

Anyway, sorry again for being a slacker, but thanks for stopping by! Until next time!....