Wednesday 8 May 2013

Spring Pinterest Challenge - Family Height Chart Ruler



I love love love the seasonal Pinterest Challenges that Katie Bower from Bower Power Blog and Sherrie and John from Young House Love host each season along with two special guest hosts.


This season the special guest hosts are Emily from Sparkle Meets Pop and Renee from Red Bird Blue. These two blogs are absolutely gorgeous and although I've known Sparkle Meets Pop for a while, Red Bird Blue is new to me.

Although I've never taken part in a seasonal Pinterest challenge, I've always loved them so this time I decided to give it a go. It is a spring challenge as the hosts are based in the Northern Hemisphere (whilst we begin to FREEZE down under!) but that doesn't matter for us - our Autumn is so mild it may as well be Spring!

To take part in the Pinterest Challenges you must:

- Pick a project inspired by something you have seen on Pinterest
- Create it, spin it and blog it
- Then linky up with the hosts Link Parties (I will add them later as they haven't been launched yet!).




I have wanted to make a Family Height Chart Ruler for a while. They have been floating around the webisphere for ages and I've always loved the notion of measuring the kids' growth. When I was growing up we had a door frame that was written on at my parents old house. You'd have a line drawn at your head height and your name and date written next to it. At one point I was taller than my older brother, and that did not go down well! He has long surpassed me and is the tallest in our family now!

The disadvantage of this door-frame measuring point was that it couldn't be taken to a new house if we moved (and my parents did! The door frame was painted over sadly). The height chart I am going to make will be able to be relocated if we move house.



Pinspiration #1

Height Chart from Bower Power blog

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Pinspiraton #2

Height chart from Knock off Decor

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Pinspiration #3

Height chart from Dear Lille

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Materials and tools used:

One piece of pine (170 cm x 20 cm x 1.9 cm)
Primer
White paint (I used Taubmans pure white)
Gray paint (I used my favourite gray, Taubmans Storm Cloud)
Black paint (I used an art medium paint)
Brushes
Ruler










I then printed off appropriate sized numbers on to plain white paper. Using a pencil, I traced over the outline of the numbers and then filled them in by hand with black paint. The marker lines were also measured first then painted in by hand.

Please excuse the lighting! Most of this was done during nap time and after Little Man went to bed.

PS That is the amazing wall in my parents foyer/living space. AHHHHHMAZING! House tour coming soon of our 'in-between houses home' (AKA, Living Three Generations Under One Roof).









Tomorrow I promise to take a shot of Little Man being super cute and measured using our fab new family height chart!

xx Tess



7 comments:

  1. I absolutely love your take on this!

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  2. Super cute. I have all my supplies to do this but I just haven't gotten to it yet. I really need to get my rear in gear.

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    1. Aren't they such a great way to record kid's heights? I love it.. I still don't know exactly how I am going to 'mark' my boy's height on it, i don't really want to make on it I like it so much. Any ideas from your end?

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  3. This is so cool, im totally making one of these for when i have kids. Love it! Lovelishares.blogspot.com

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