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When A Project Bombs

August 11, 2013 By Erica Deuel 8 Comments

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When a project bombs, you want to…

admit you never tried it…

crumple it up and stomp on it…

keep going till you perfect it…

do anything but admit it didn’t work…

at least that was me tonight.

I stared at that alphabet and silently threatened it. “I will beat you,” I kept thinking to myself.

It’s my own fault. I waited till the night before we start our school year to try to make a new alphabet poster. So, maybe that is part of my frustration. Since most of our school supplies are going to be stored in our foster care bedroom, I want the decor to be some what educational but still really cool and fun.

I saw this alphabet poster at Ikea earlier this summer, and I just loved it.

ikea_alphabet_posterI loved the simplicity and that the vowels were in red. The only thing was it’s a Danish alphabet and it doesn’t have the lower case letters, which are important to a new writer. So, I used it as my inspiration tonight to try to create my own.

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Attempts 1, 2, and 3 did not work. The stencil was too fat, the free hand was too ugly, and the cards were too “school room” type. I angrily stomped to the computer where I decided I would just google and buy a simple looking poster. I. Could. Not. Find. One.

There were no cute, simple alphabet posters with the capital and lower case letters (with out cartoon images and letters being thrown all over the page in a twisted out-of-order way).

I was stuck trying to figure this out. So, I browsed dafont.com and downloaded a whole bunch of new fonts. I am sure you will be seeing them in coming posts, but here are a few of my new favs, in case you want to download them too!

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I decided I would go with a font that I already had, and created this poster.

8x11Why did I have to make that when it’s such a simple idea!? I do not know, but now it’s out there. I am gonna blow this sucker up. Stick it in a frame. AND try to pretend this project did not hurt my crafter’s ego.

Hopefully, this school prep project is not a foretelling sign of our school year!

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Comments

  1. missinformationblog says

    August 12, 2013 at 8:01 am

    HA HA HA that is great! Looks so cute. Matthews preschool taught only lowercase first because they said that kids see more lowercase than uppercase letters therefor the learn the lower case letters faster. Makes Sense!

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    • ericadeuel says

      August 13, 2013 at 6:19 am

      Thank you! GREAT point Kelley!

      Reply
  2. Erin @ DIY on the Cheap says

    August 12, 2013 at 10:49 am

    Very cute! Don’t you hate it when things don’t work out in real life how you see them in your head? So frustrating! But I think your poster will be perfect when you have it printed!

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    • ericadeuel says

      August 13, 2013 at 6:20 am

      Thanks Erin! I hope so! I’m already debating changing the font again 🙂 oh the life of a DIY-er!

      Reply
  3. amanda dement says

    August 14, 2013 at 6:17 pm

    LOL. Your handwritten one looks better than most stencils! 🙂

    Reply
    • ericadeuel says

      August 15, 2013 at 5:26 am

      Hahaha Thank you Amanda!! I still don’t love the poster, so you know I’m playing around with other fonts before I send it off to be printed. Can we say #perfectionist!? XO, Erica

      Reply
  4. Whitney S says

    August 20, 2013 at 8:50 pm

    Thank you!!! Printed this out on cardstock to use in school tomorrow. 🙂

    Reply

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