Today we made tshirts for the girls. We bought those iron on jewels and needless to say I was starting to wonder what we were doing. Unfortunately, the directions for the jewels were not as good as the iron on patches, but we were trying the jewels first. I gave up after several attempts at ironing them and them lifting right off. We went to the preset jewels that were on plastic. They stuck right away. So, I finally decided to follow those directions for the individual jewels and voila! The girls picked out the words and they, naturally, fit their personalities. Chelsi selected 'sweet pea' while Kaelin selected 'wild child'. So fitting for both.
We put their Korean names in Hangul on the shirts which I was having a difficult time trying to align the jewels to form the characters, but we got them. Then, the girls each picked out patches for another shirt. Kaelin picked 'diva' and we put 3 hearts of jewels on the back of the neck. Chelsi picked 'cutie' and we put a jeweled flower on the back of the neck and one jeweled flower on each sleeve. They're not perfect, but they're one of a kind and cute and the girls like them.
We also decided to get some nylon and supplies to make a child leash. It started out as just wanting to make one, but Chelsi said she wanted one too. She doesn't think she can stay with us when we go to TX next month and is worried she'll get lost in a crowd or when we go to Korea. Chelsi picked out pink and we got blue for Jaemin. Basically it's just a loop for the parent and one for the child with a buckle in between so we can separate if we need to. It seems to work, but we'll try it out next month. Mainly, it's an alternative if Jaemin insists on walking, but accidentally lets go of our hand, which he frequently does. This way he can't get too far and get hurt. Brian's very much against me getting one of those child harnesses, so this was the best thing I could think of. It took me a couple of hours to hand-sew all the velcro on, but we got it.
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