How To: Hulk Birthday Shirt Tutorial

      Hello! We just finished up celebrating my youngest sons birthday! He is now 2 years old! My time has flown! I had so much fun with his birthday party this year. We decided to go with an Incredible Hulk theme :) If you knew my son this is just such a fitting character for him. Our rough and tumble little man.

          So I made 2 birthday shirts. One for the birthday boy and one for his big brother to wear.

Here is How I did this step by step!

Supplies you will need:

2 copies of the Hulk Image

2 Foam Paint Brushes

Exacto Knife

Green Fabric Paint

Black Fabric Paint

White Fabric Paint

Small Paint Brush

White T-shirt

First Step Get a Piece of Card board a put it inside the shirt so your paint doesn't bleed through to the other side.

Center the Shirt over the card board where you want the image to be. I used some little clip's to hold the shirt in place so it didn't move while I was working.

Next take the first image of the Hulk that you printed and cut the entire face part out. Don't worry if you go up into the hair line a bit. It will get covered when we do the next stencil.

Place the stencil on the shirt where you would like the image to end up on your shirt. I put a couple clip's on the sides of the paper to hold it steady.

Now take your green fabric paint and fill in that hole!

When you remove the stencil this is what it should look like.

Take your second print out of the Hulk image and cut out all of the black areas to show the features and define the face.

Place your image over the green area and make sure its lined up over the face in the right places. See how the green is up in the hair line a bit? Totally fine we are going to black it out. Clip it in place.

Grab you foam paint brush and apply the black paint all over the stencil until it is well covered.

Remove the stencil and this is what it should look like now. I took white fabric paint and painted his eyes and teeth in free hand. See the finished product below :)

I also added in some words. So I just typed them up and printed them off in the size I wanted. Cut them out and the lay them on the shirt where you would like and paint them the color you want. I chose black.

I hope this tutorial was helpful to you!

~Teagan

                           

Baby Goats!

        I can not believe it has come full circle and I am now buying my children goats! It seems like just yesterday my parents were buying us (my brothers and sister and I) little kids our first goats :)  Growing up we always had goats around. They are so cute and they are great to have around to tame down areas of your property that have weeds and such that you want to keep under control. Lots of people milk them as well and there are tons of things you can do with their milk. We tried milking for a bit when I was kid but it is A LOT of work and it is a big time commitment. You have to milk them twice a day at the same times so or else it becomes painful for them and you don't want the milk supply to dry up. Anyways to much for me right now.

          So we got them to get control of some blackberries we have in one of our fields. Now before you call me crazy for not picking them and eating them let me tell you a few things. First off I don't like them lol. Second they are actually quite a pest of a plant over here. They will literally take over complete areas of your land. They grow so big and so fast! They have the sharpest spikes ever on them to! I got cut several times while we were moving and literally have scars on my legs from them! Nasty little things lol. Third there a many different types of blackberries and the ones in our field are quite bitter. They would be good for jams but I don't have the energy for that right now. Besides there are plenty of them left elsewhere on the property for that :)

         Any who here are some pictures of the cute little buggers. They are brother and sister. My Boys are madly in love with them :)

So the goats are in heaven since they have tons of untouched green grass and blackberries all to their little selves :) They won't be little for long though! We are still working on names right now. I will update you on that when we decide :) 

   ~Teagan

The DRY lawn....

     So It was my understanding that the seller had to maintain the house and turn it over to us it the same condition it was in when we made the offer...But these people didn't get the memo I guess. We came our to make the offer on the house this is what the lawn looked like.

              Nice and lush and green right? Now this is what the lawn looked like the day we moved in.

So Sad :( I was like how are we ever going to make this pretty again :( They had horses out in the pastures and 5 acres is not enough to feed two full grown horses so they had pretty much run it down to dirt out there. They had five large dogs that left lots of big presents for us out in the yard all over to :) So sweet.

But it has been less than a month of us being here, watering a bit and the lovely rain we have been having and this is what the lawn looks like now :)

        All Pretty again :) So happy that it all came back fine. The fields as you can see in the way back of the picture are even getting pretty green now that the horses are off it. We are happy about this since winter is coming so it will help a little with the mud!

      OK just wanted to show you the miracle we worked on our lawn :)

  ~Teagan

We Finally Moved!!

     Our moving journey has taken many months to finally nail down the exact date that it would happen. We had no idea when we originally made the offer to buy this house that the home buying process would be so stressful! It literally consumed my life until it was over! I couldn't relax until we signed the papers. Buying a house is not for wimps that is for sure!

     But we did it! We looked and looked for about 6 months waiting for the perfect house to come along. It seems hopeless! But one day we checked the listings and this house came up. It had been on the market the whole time we were looking but they just dropped the price down into our range. We drove straight out to do a drive by because those realtors can be pretty tricky with their pictures so we wanted to make sure it was the real deal before we got excited.

      We loved what we saw on the outside so we called the realtor and got right in to see it the next day and made the offer on the spot! We were so excited to be able to buy acreage. We can't see our neighbors! So awesome. We knew walking around the place that this was going to be the perfect place to raise our boys and plants some permanent roots.

       Stephen and I both grew up in a small town in Eastern Washington out in the country and just really missed the lifestyle. We have a blank slate at this new house and can not wait to make it our own :)

Cheers to the next Chapter!

Here are a few pictures of the property :)

        ~Teagan