So, something I have been working on the last couple of weeks is getting all the school clothes we will need for the boys for this fall and winter. I have gotten most of the clothes we need, except a few more pairs of jeans and some pajamas I am still looking for for Kolby (and we just found out that we’ll need an extra set of clothes for Kolby and Eli because they like to keep an extra set at the preschool in case they get messy painting or something). But I was trying to think of a good idea to mark the boys’ school clothes so that they could easily tell who’s clothes are who’s. (This saves me time, because then the boys can pick out their own clothes when they get dressed without having to ask me to find a size on a tag – since so many of their clothes are similar or the same sizes, and it will also be easier when we are doing laundry if someone doesn’t know who’s shirt they are folding, they can just look inside). Last year I used different colored sharpie markers and put a different colored dot on the tags for each of the different boys’ clothes, but the problem with that was that sometimes the dots were hard for the boys to find, and sometimes the dots changed colors when the tag wasn’t white. Anyways, I came up with the idea of iron-on tags, and I went to the internet, but couldn’t find what I wanted – all I could find was big, colorful full-name tags that didn’t seem especially inexpensive. So I decided to make my own. I got paper that you could print on your computer to make iron-on transfers, and I printed out a small letter with each boys’ first initial. In one afternoon I finished ironing on all of Kolby’s, Eli’s, and Camden’s, and I have since put off ironing on Isaac’s (but that shouldn’t take too long once I decide to get it done). I think they turned out pretty well, although I don’t know how well you can see them in the pictures. It was nice, because I could iron the labels onto a tag or right onto the inside of the shirt if there wasn't a tag. I didn’t want the labels to be too big, just a little letter that the boys could find easily. So, that’s one project that I’m almost done with for this season.
The labels that I printed out
(I realized later that I printed way more 'K's than I needed for Kolby).
A couple of Kolby's shirts with the labels on them.
Kolby's fall and winter clothes with all the labels on them.
Eli's clothes with all the labels.
And Camden's clothes with all the labels.
3 comments:
Wow! What a project! And when the clothes shift down, you can put a new iron on over the old one. Brilliant!
Wow - you constantly amaze me with all the ways you keep organized and all the energy it must take to do so!
Good idea, Steph! (Definitely a lot of work, though!)
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