Friday, June 15-Colby and Kimber come to town

Colby called a few days ago to see if she could come and do a Father's Day project with me.  I thought it was a great idea so she came on Friday and we got to work.  Well, we didn't get right to work  because we had a few errands to do first so off we went.  We went to the bank for some $, visited Russell there for a while then headed to Michael's for supplies.  By the time we got home, ate some lunch, feed the baby and got her happy it was after 1:00.  Colby's plan  was to make some cute photo blocks with pictures on each side.  I wasn't really planning on making anything but decided at the store to make something similar for Russell as a grandpa gift.  Well, it turned out to be a much bigger project than we thought and she didn't leave for Provo until around 9:00 pm.

We had to sand our wooden blocks, paint them, let them dry, print off pictures, cut them up so they fit the blocks, (that was the hardest part), glue the pictures on the blocks, cover them with mod podge and then let that dry all the while taking care of Kimber who wanted to be part of the fun.  Since we could only do one side of the blocks at a time then wait for them to dry it was a long process.  When it was getting close to time for Russell to get home we decided I better get mine all done so we put Colby's blocks on hold and Colby helped me get my done and put away.  After Russell got home we had another set of hands to help with the baby so that was a big help. He also went and got us dinner from Crown Burger which was yummy!!   Here are some pictures of the finished project.  Hope our spouses don't look at this blog before Sunday, HA!

You can see Colby had set of 6 blocks and I had just two.  Hers were 2x2 and mine were 3 1/2x 3 1/2. One of the pictures I took of her blocks didn't turn out so there are only pictures of five of the six sides. 

The hardest part of this project was getting the center set of Colby's pictures to fit the blocks.  Our pictures were 4x6 and we had to trim off the white edges so they were not quite big enough to cover the six blocks. The center block pictures had to be just a little bit bigger than the outside blocks.  After we figured that out it was all pretty easy.  My blocks were much easier to figure out since I was only cutting up photos to fit one or both.    We each bought one page of stickers to add to the blocks and printed some signage off the computer to add the words.  

Happy Father's Day Every One!