That Time I Made Hat Patches and SUCCESSFULLY Put Them on a Hat

You guys, I’ve been trying for a WHILE to put designs on hats. Every now and then I pull it off. But more often than not, I end up wasting hats and time. I usually end up with a crease that makes the cap look bad 🙄

In the past I bought patches to sublimate onto to then put on the hat, hoping that was the answer. It wasn’t, not like I’d hoped.

But today was different!

I spent the weekend looking up tutorials on making my own patches and applying those to hats and it worked!

In the summer, we try to take the kids on a trip. It usually involves a family reunion, then some time for our immediate family to explore. I like decorating bags for the kids to take to keep their things in. And sometimes I go a little crazy…like this year.

This year there are water bottles, shirts, drawstring backpack tags, backpacks, and, you guessed it, hats.

I didn’t have really high expectations for these caps because of past experience. But boy howdy! I didn’t mess up ANY of them. Not even the practice one lol.

And since I’m super excited that I finally did something that worked like it was supposed to, I’m sharing it lol

So, here you go. Custom hat patches onto a variety of colors of baseball cap and even a bucket hat.

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XOXOXO

That Time I Made Another Wind Spinner (and some mistakes)

First, I LOVE the way these colors came out. It was a gorgeous image and seemed to be just right for this project.

But, there are definitely flaws and mistakes while I figure stuff like this out lol

But, see the first 😉

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I think these are great spring/summer/fall/garden fun. They’re mesmerizing and hypnotic. A great way to relax. I can’t wait to hang mine and see how my little guys react. Hoping this a great way for them to calm outside when they need to ❤️

I’m doing wind spinners for a $20 donation to Paws 4 Autism. Again, it’s things like this that help us raise money for our service dog and the other pups in the program to help keep it going. This is a 10 inch spinner, but I might be switching to 8 in spinners so I don’t have to piece papers together lol

If you’re interested in a wind spinner, please message me and we’ll make it happen 😀

To take a look at our organization, go here: Perfectly Awesome Pups

To take a peek at JJ’s fundraising page/story, go here: Perfectly Awesome Boy

That Time I 3D Printed a Mother’s Day Statue

One of the things I’ve been trying to learn the past couple of years is 3D printing.

I understand the basics.

I struggle to understand the mechanics.

Every now and then, something works like it’s supposed to.

I originally wanted to use 3D printing as a fundraising avenue by printing lithophanes. It’s a really neat way of displaying a photo. One of these days, I may upload some that have been mostly successful. I just can’t seem to get them to work well and work consistently, and to get them to do both at the same time, lol.

But today, I managed to print a Mother’s Day statue that came out nice enough.

If anyone is interested in this as a Mother’s Day gift, it’s a $10 donation to Paws 4 Autism. Message me and I’ll let you know how to make the donation. Right now, I only have one, because my printer decided to stop working….again lol

To check out Paw 4 Autism, go here: BEST DOG BOYS

To check out our fundraising page, go here: BEST HUMAN BOYS

Thanks for stopping by!

XOXOXO

That Time I Sublimated a Wind Spinner

I just started playing around with wind spinners, and I might be a little in love lol

This is the first one. I see places I need to adjust for next time, but my mind is swirling with ideas now 😀

Also, numbers are hard. And I don’t always consider them when buying items like this. So I bought 10 inch wind spinners, but my printer can only print about 8.25 inches wide. So now I get to learn how to piece together images to make one large one so I can fill the entire wind spinner 😀

I’m thinking about using something like this for Mother’s Day, but I also think something like the 4th of July would be really cool on these, too. But this one is going in my garden ❤️

I wish I could post videos, because it’s really neat to watch it spin. It’s kind of mesmerizing 🙂 Maybe I need a YouTube channel for videos to link to, lol

Anyway, thanks for stopping by!

XOXOXO

I make these for a $20 donation to Paws 4 Autism. If you’re interested in one, let me know and we’ll make sure you get one. I can put all sorts of things on these 😀

To check out our organization, go here: AWESOME DOGS

If you’re interested in donating to our fundraising, go here: EVEN MORE AWESOME KID, the donation section is at the bottom of the page.

Missing Mugs from That Time I Added Mugs To My Blog

I found those mugs that were missing lol. I really liked these because they’re SO colorful.

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XOXOXO

That Time I Added Mugs to My Blog

In my catch up blog, I said I would post some of the projects I’ve been working on when I have a few spare minutes.

So, today, I’m posting the mugs I’ve been working on. These are the types of things I do as fundraisers for Paws 4 Autism and Bandit

To do these, I started learning how to sublimate. I looked easy, and theoretically it is. But it’s the small stuff that trips me up lol

This is a fun idea. I took a child’s artwork and put it on a shirt for him and a mug for his mom. It’s like fridge art – but better!

I’m also able to put pictures of cuties like this onto mugs. This particular grandma needed a mug with her granddaughter on it. It was so much fun to do ❤️ Can you imagine waking up to this smile in the mornings?

For Halloween, I had a BLAST making color changing mugs. We call them magic mugs. I need to figure out how to post a video here, but for now, trust me, they’re cool. They start out black. When you add hot water, the black disappears revealing and image under it.

And before we knew it, it was Christmas time. I did a Naughty/Nice Magic mug (because I LOVE them lol) and also did a set of matching mugs and kitchen towel set.

And then, I saw a pattern that I really liked, but couldn’t find, so I got to design some things using just a few images and tricks to recreate and refine the look I’d seen. I also did a matching tumbler 😊 I think this would be fun for Mother’s Day ❤️

This last set of mugs I did because I found images I fell in love with. A friend suggested they might work well as Magic Mugs. And I agree!

I did the Sagittarius mug for me (and I just noticed I misspelled it, so I will be fixing that right away!)

The Aries mug is for a friend of mine and I LOVE how the colors came out on this 💕

So those are some of the mugs I’ve been working on. There are some missing so there will be a Mug post part 2 coming soon.

As I mentioned at the beginning, these are the types of things I’ve been doing for fundraisers for Bandit and Paws 4 Autism.

For more information about Paws 4 Autism, click here: AWESOME DOGS

For JJ’s donation page, click here: AWESOME KID

Thanks for stopping by!

XOXOXO