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My mom loves, I mean LOVES, recycling. She is one of those people who picks empty cans and bottles out of the trash to recycle even when she's over at a friend's house, or in public. Anyhow, for Christmas, I thought she needed a shirt to wear when taking things to the recycling center, to let everyone know of her regal recycling status.
It's a lovely symbol, the fleur de lis, and since Katrina came to town, it's symbolized supporting the rebuilding of a wonderful part of the country. I stencilled this silvery-blue fleur de lis onto a dark blue long-sleeved tee for myself and wear it ALL the time.
I've since stencilled the fleur de lis shirts for friends Betsy and Janette, who are both Gulf Coast folks.
Joanna's big brother Nicholas loves firetrucks! This was my first firetruck stencil; since doing this one, I have honestly lost track of how many firetruck tees I've stencilled for little people. I'll just say this: there are a lot of firetruck fans in the world.
Randi's daughter Julia also loves butterflies!
I stencilled a dark pink (with purple shadow) butterfly onto a light pink pontelle-knit cotton turtleneck for her, so she can enjoy her butterflies even in the middle of the winter.
My sons are two and a half and very very very active. They needed these "high voltage" shirts.Stencilled using orange paint onto long-sleeved orange raglan tees.
Sometimes I want to wear my own stencil stuff! So I stencilled this retro-looking diner sign onto a black long-sleeved tee, using mostly silver paint and a touch of pink paint.
Come on, everyone likes pirates!
I know lots of mothers of twins, being as I am a twinmama myself. Anyhow, for Halloween my twinmama friend Susan wanted to dress up her boy/girl twins as Thing 1 and Thing 2 from Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat. The hardest part was finding a Seuss-esque font, the rest was easy-peasy. Happy Halloween!
My mom calls herself the Gemini Grandma*, so I stencilled a gemini symbol on the sleeve of a black long-sleeved shirt and used a cool font and stencilled gemini grandma on the front of the shirt, using silver paint. BTW, doesn't the font look very much like that used by the illustrator for the Harry Potter books? I think so.
* she's a Gemini (twins) and she has twin grandsons.
My sister and my husband are both fans of the Evil Monkey from Family Guy. So I stencilled shirts for them. This is my husband's. My sister's was on a pink shirt.
My husband went to Mississippi State and is a rabid Bulldogs fan. They ring cowbells at football games (or used to, until the NCAA or SEC or someone banned cowbells from the games). The Dawgs aren't doing as great recently as they have other years, but still we keep hope alive here.
So I stencilled "I Need More Cowbell"* onto the front, and a silhouette of Bully (the mascot) onto the back of the shirt. Shirt is maroon and text is a silvery-gray, as State's colors are maroon and gray. Or maybe white, I can't exactly remember.
I've also stencilled this shirt for Betsy's husband, who also went to State, and for baby Harrison, whose Daddy went to State.
* yes, from the immortal skit on Saturday Night Live featuring Will Ferrell ringing a cowbell and Christopher Walken needing more of it.
Heather's toddler son needs funny and sassy shirts, so we did this up for her. It's one of my first attempts at stencilling text, so be kind.
Pink ribbon teeshirts for my boys for them to wear while I am running my first Race for the Cure in my own pink survivor shirt.
I spent hours looking for a pink ribbon (or any ribbon) stencil, but ended up freehanding these (they're slightly different, because I just drew two ribbons and immediately cut them out without tracing). Added the darker pink as shadowing, and got a little carried away but I think it mostly works.
