One Hundredth Day of School, and a Resourceful Mommy

Today was the one hundredth day of school here in Burleson, TX, and you know what that means. An excuse to wear a non-uniform shirt to school, and have a party. Makes sense to me. Ivy and Addie have been talking about this day for a week. Being in Kindergarten has been a great source of excitement for Addie. She has watched for years as Emilie and Ivy have gone on field trips, and had class parties, and spirit weeks. She is reveling in the fact that it is now her turn be apart of the fun. 

This being the hundredth day, she HAD to have a special 100 shirt to wear. Over the years we have made many the 100 shirts. Most years the shirts have been painted with little paw prints all over them (we're the Frazier Bears).  A few years ago I went a little crazy on the shirts. I found two shirts on super cheap clearance at Target, and I stitched 100 beads onto each of the shirts make the number 100. Emilie's was black with blue beads, and Ivy's was white with pink and iridescent beads. I was up till like 11pm sewing beads. It was one of those moments when I wonder, "what the heck was I thinking!"

Well, I got a little smarter from that experience. This year I repurposed those same shirts. The beads have long since fallen off, so I decided to use them again. For Ivy's, I grabbed my black fabric stamp pad, and my box of foam alphabet and number stamps. I stamped 100 on the shirt several times overlapping the numbers. Simple and cute, I love how it turned out. For Addie, she got the black shirt, so a black stamp pad was not going to work. I found in my craft bins some iron-on letters from trick-or-treat bags I made a few years ago. (This is why I never throw my scraps away!) I cut the sides off the letter T to make a 1, and used the o's make, well 0's. The letters are shiny silver glitter that stand out nicely against the black shirt. According to Addie, her shirt was the favorite of everyone in her class. They all wished they had shiny numbers like hers. 
I just love when everything comes together. I also love that this years shirts only took me 10 minutes to make. It kind of redeems me from the hours of hand sewing I did the same shirts a few years ago, right?