Thursday, May 17, 2012

Height board...

I have been wanting a way to measure Colin's height, but I hadn't found anything that I loved... so I decided to make one!  I wanted something simple - especially if we have more kids, I didn't want it personalized.  I like being able to compare everyone's height on one board.  I wanted it moble... we are renting this house, so we won't live here forever, so I wanted to be able to take it with us.  I wanted it sturdy - not just a sheet of paper...  So, here is what I made:

I love it!  It was pretty simple... a board, sanding, paint, and for the letters I printed off 2 - 6 from the printer in a font I liked, then put the paper on the board where I wanted the number, traced the letters (on the paper) with a ball point pen, the pen made an indention on the board, then I just painted inside the indention. Make sense?

Then I started putting Colin's stats on it...

I will put Garet and my height's on it too... which is one reason I went up to 6'3"  (G is a little over 6').  I still love to look back on ours as kids (it is hanging on the inside of a closet at my parents house)... it is covered with mine and Eric's heights - in fact I added Colin's to it a couple months ago =)

2 comments:

L Davis said...

What a good idea, and how crafty you've become! You will treasure this forever!

Lacey said...

I love it! I read that tip about tracing over something onto wood and filling in the outline on Pinterest, too. Good to know it looks as good as they said it would!