Glitterfied Clothes Line To-Do List!

 
   I really should be asleep. I have a quiz in my bright and early chemistry class, followed by Lab, followed by work. I think you'll find that 99% of my blog posts will occur when I have something else that I should be doing. But it wouldn't be my blog if that wasn't the case! I'm a professional procrastinator. Seriously. I have it down to a science. I once watched my fish Gilbert (my only friend at UNCG, may he rest in peace) eat for five minutes just to avoid studying. Five. Whole. Minutes. That's dedication right there, y'all.
   ANYWAYS! Back to the topic at hand. I'm severely unorganized. It's embarrassing, really. I have to write important  stuff on my hand because it's the only thing I'm almost guaranteed not to lose. So one day, I was enjoying one of my favorite websites, craftgawker.com (I'm a totally junkie!), and I came across an idea that I really really liked! It was neat, it was different, and it seemed effective. Just what I needed. And it was totally simple. The craftgawker link led me to this lovely blog that had quite a few household tips and tricks. Very useful and simple to do! The idea I wanted to try was the to-do list made with string and clothespins. It was so adorable!
   Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of when I first put it up. Probably best, though, it wasn't too pretty to look at. The one on the blog has clothespins with pretty printed out labels and stationary for the "to-do's". I thought about doing that, but it just seemed like more trouble than it's worth. I just knew I'd have to print out about five pages of the days of the week before I got it right. What a waste! So, incredibly lazy time-savvy Erin took a sharpie to her clothespins. Needless to say, my clothesline looked pretty pathetic. But 'tis the season for diseases, and I've spent much more time than I'd like at home because of low-cencus at work. And why would I spend that extra time trying to get ahead on schoolwork? That's crazy talk! So I looked through my craft supplies box to see what I could get myself into. I had tons of glitter, some glue, glow in the dark fabric paint, and TONS of scrapbook stickers. I look up from my cluttered treasure box and my eyes immediately fell on my to-do line. And so it began! (Forgive me, I didn't take pictures until about halfway through).  I started by just applying some glue onto the clothesline and pouring glitter over it. But it just didn't look right. So I measured and cut strips of thick paper and glued them onto the clothespins first, then applied the glue, and finally the glitter. Much better.

 
   While I waited for this side to dry, I worked on the labels for the other side. The point of the clothesline to-do list is that each clothespin is labeled with a day of the week. Since I was too lazy to print out labels, I had to write my own. I used the glow-in-the-dark fabric paint for this. The spout (?) was just right for writing on the tiny labels.

Oops...Don't tell my Grandma...

   Once I was happy with the writing (I'm pretty OCD about my handwriting), I poured glitter on it so that the word was the same color sparkly as its other side. I did each week day with a different color while Saturday and Sunday were both done with silver.

Not too bad, eh??

   I ended up adding a second glitter coat to the solid side the next day to make sure I had full coverage and to give it an all around nicer color. I was pretty happy with the result after that! In total this project probably took me between two and three hours, but I'd definitely give it a rating as easy. I did it with minimal accidents/mistakes, so it had to be! And it does look totally freaking adorable! I'm sorry if this isn't the easiest tutorial. Be kind, it's my first one ever! Hopefully I'll get a little better at this. Probably not... Well I think that about wraps it up. Have an awesome day and good luck!

XOXO Erin