Kevin and I made this board for Hope's birthday party a few months ago. It's 4'x4' and I drew where I wanted the cutouts and Kevin jigged them out and sanded them. We painted a base coat of white and in craft paint I added this puppy and kitten based on the American Girl pets Coconut and Licorice.
This morning we finished a new board for my niece's birthday with an Angelina Ballerina theme. I painted Angelina and Henry. I'll post a pic in a few days, it's still drying. So my thought is, maybe I could sell these? It wouldn't be worth it for less than $35. Do you think people would pay that for this? I can pretty much do any theme, I'm no artiste, but you're looking for a suggestion cartoon, not actual replica right? So that was the morning, plus a bunch of paperwork, then lunch at home to stave off "the hungries" and out with the whole family for back-to-school shopping! Yes, all of us!
It was so defeating at first, we bought next to nothing in the first four stores we went to, I was really worried. I kept thinking I would do better at home online {of course when I'm home doing online shopping I always feel I'd get a better deal if I went to the store} but finally we hit great shoe success at a Bob's and even better luck at Target for jeans and pencil cases. I don't enjoy that feeling when I'm in a store that somewhere else has a better selection or a better deal and it can be hard to fight the marketing absorbed by young minds of the shoe they have to have. And then I really don't enjoy getting to the next store and realizing I should have just bought what I saw at the first store because it was more in line with what we wanted even though it wasn't perfect. I ran into people we knew at all the stores which was fun for me, less so for the family in tow who wants mom to STOP TALKING and LET'S GO. It doesn't seem all so long ago I was equally impatient with my own parents for the same thing. Forced Family Fun Shopping only happens about twice a year so you have to just go with it. It's a solid reminder why I try to go out and pick things up solo whenever possible.
