Orange and Black

The leaves have nearly completely fallen and that signals Halloween.  This, at minimum,  week long build up comes with lots of fun, sweets and some more then disappointing costume choices and idea. I can come up with some pretty fantastic ideas but my execution of these ideas is often less then stellar.  I have learned over the years that less is more, don't dismiss a bought outfit and always enlist help when you know your way over your head.  

This year we are keeping it pretty low key.  With the actual day being on a Monday, if you have been around any child you know that they have already had their "pre-game" for the last week.  The Halloween "jet lag" will commence promptly on Tuesday morning.  Monday will be orange and black day for the regular work hours and little known fact, I do not own anything orange.  So I quick search on Pinterest brought me to the Jessica's blog called Cutesy Crafts .

What you will need is a t-shirt, freezer paper (you can get this from any grocery store), pencil (for drawing), fabric paint (I decided to use black and glitter), scissors, another pencil for dipping in the paint (I used a larger one and a regular sized one for different sized stamps) and an iron.  

Using the freezer paper, you can make any shape you wish and simply cut it out.  I had never used this before and I have to saw, why didn't I know that freezer paper existed and is a thing for crafts??  From there, you put the "shiny" plasticized side down and iron it until the edges adhere to the t-shirt.  

Keeping the shapes on the shirt, go a head and get creative!  I applied black first with the larger sized eraser and then went back in with silver.  After that, let it dry, peel of the designs and you have a custom t-shirt!  You could obviously use this for really anything.  To set the paint, I let it dry over night and then put an old, thin towel over top and go over the paint with a hot iron.  

Overall, I am pretty happy with the way this Pinterest short cut worked out!  Easy, cheap and the kids will love it! I think I followed the important life lessons I learned from Halloween past.  I kept it simple, I reached out for an idea and gave myself enough time to get it done. Let's see how tomorrow turn out!