In our house, we have a family closet of sorts. All 7 of our children have their own laundry basket of clean clothing that sits on a shelf in our family room. Normally this would be in the laundry room or ideally even in a separate larger closet. But that's okay - I like it so much that I don't care where it is!
The problem: babysitters have no idea whose clothing is whose. So I decided to make name tags! Inspired by different blogs and ideas I've seen online, I got to work. My baskets are not matching but I did my best with what I had, and now they look much nicer just because they are *slightly* more uniform looking, lol.
First I did a search for free fonts on Google. Found a site right away, and then found a good Tuscan type font that I loved. Downloaded it onto my computer, then opened a word document and typed the names of my children in large font.
I found some sturdy white card paper and printed the names out. Then I cut them into the same shape as best I could, and glued them onto black construction paper.
Next, I cut the black construction paper into nice even-looking labels, and covered the face of each one with packing tape. Ha ha! I'm finding out that to be crafty you get, well, creative. =) The end results - ta da! (and these ARE white in real life, lol)
great idea. You could also sew a curtain to cover the shelf with if you wanted to but maybe now you don't need it. So a ? about folding. do you bother to or no? Just wondering...seems I fold stuff and put into their drawers and they just mess it up anyway.
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