This giant ruler has been on my list of "things to do" since I saw one in my sweet friend Jaimee's house in Kentucky.
Well, I finally "got her dun" 2 years later!
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I invited my friend over... since crafting is ALWAYS funner with friends
and we got to work.
(btw- it is "more fun" to say "funner")
We started out with a 8in x 6ft piece of wood...
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I white-washed mine but my friend Jamie left hers "all natural"... I don't know which I liked better in the end... I LOVE them both!
Jaimee (in Kentucky... we are talking about two different Jamie/ Jaimees here) lent me her ruler 2 years ago and I made a stencil with poster board (with the grid printed on it... much easier).
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This picture shows how long we made the lines to break up each foot into half, quarter, etc.
Make sense?
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We started with the 6inch mark since we are hanging the ruler 6 inches off the floor to make room for the base boards and used a black sharpie to fill in the lines on the stencil.
Then we put on the vinyl numbers.
But, something didn't look right...
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Can YOU tell what we did wrong?
Of course you can!!
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So silly, we originally put the numbers on upside-down!
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No worries, we peeled off the vinyl and flipped them around.
We added our last names (also vinyl) and that was all there was to it!!
I can't wait to hang it up and start measuring my kiddos!