DIY: paper bunting sign.

I don't know if this is even necessary but I made a paper bunting sign for Weston's Baby Shower and took pictures of the process so just in case, here's a how to if you'd need some guidance.

step one:

choose your papers

 The colors for Weston's shower were a light teal and lime green so I chose a few different patterned papers in those colors.

step two:

trace triangles

 Make a triangle to trace onto the back of the patterned papers. I just used a straight edge and eyeballed it to make my triangle but if you have something triangle shaped you can trace that. I made mine on a piece of poster paper so that the paper was a bit heavier and easier to trace onto the patterned papers.

step three:
cut out triangles

step four:

add letters

Ok, I apologize I kind of skipped a step or two in here but I was so absorbed in making it that I forgot to take pictures so I'll explain it and if you need me to clarify please let me know.

So for the letters I took the solid green and teal papers and traced circles on them. I looked around my house for a circle that would fit best on my triangles and found that the lid to a mason jar worked best. Once I had traced and cut out my circles I laid them out onto the triangles so that a green circle was on each teal triangle and a teal circle was on each green triangle and glued them down. Then I arranged the triangles in the order I wanted them to hang. Next I wrote the letters on the circles so that they spelled out "Welcome Weston"(I intentionally left three triangles blank so I could have one on each end of the sign and one in between the words). 

Once the triangles were set I strung them on a piece of yarn and tada, it was ready to hang.

revamp.

so i have this pair of moccasins...

in fact they're this pair from target. 

however mine look like this...

you see i've had mine since high school which was...a few years ago...so they've definitely been loved quite a bit. in my defense the bows were pretty rickety when i bought them and only lasted about a month...maybe. so they've been on the raggedy side for pretty much their whole lives. but whatevs, they are sooo comfortable and easy and just wonderful so i never had an issue with their shabbiness.

the last year or so though, they've really taken a turn for the ugly. the worst part being the strings, which continually broke little by little until they couldn't even stay in their holes and just flopped around on the sides. 

so tonight i decided to do something about it. i have this pair of mint green laces that are the "alternate" laces from another pair of shoes that i will never actually use in the shoes they came with.

the poor little guys have just been sitting around feeling sad and useless.

ta da!

no more shabby moccasins and no more sad laces. what a happy pairing.

and now i'm even more in love with my moccasins. excuse me while i wear no other footwear but them for the next...two months or so.