Handmade Christmas T-Shirts

This past weekend we attended our Battalion's Christmas party - which was so much fun!  And I'll be posting some pictures in the next few days!

The invitation stated "holiday dress" - which could be interpreted in so many ways.  I wasn't about to drag out the glitter dress, but I wanted something fun and festive!  So, for the girls, I decided to make reindeer t-shirts using their hand & foot prints.

I pretty much bought Old Navy out of their red, green, and white long-sleeved tshirts!  Then I bought some brown and gold glitter fabric paint, velcro dots, large google eyes, and sparkly red pom-poms.  And on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, we went to work!

(You'll notice that the finished tshirts are actually red - and not green as shown in the pictures.  And that's because we decided that we needed to do them again after Nani lost her balance and added another brown footprint across Rudolph's face!)

I added velcro dots to the tshirt and velcroed on the eyes and nose.
Makes for easy removal for washing too!

The girls wearing their t-shirts at the Christmas party.
We got lots of comments on them!



And not to be left out - mommy had to make a t-shirt of her own to wear too!  I came across the blog, The Paisley Abbey that same weekend.  Courtney did a post about an appliqued t-shirt that she made and as a bonus, she was giving away a copy of the template so that you could make your own.  I jumped right on that and emailed her and received my pattern right away.  You can find that post here.  So, here's my version of Courtney's t-shirt!

Thanks for sharing Courtney!  I got a ton of compliments on this t-shirt too!

And happily I discovered the wonderful product of Heat and Bond!  Oh, the things I can make with this!