Spaghetti monsters! Noodle aliens! Spaghetti squid! Whatever you call them, they are ridiculous. But summertime is about ridiculous food, like fried dough, things on sticks, and candy floss. Why not stick some uncooked spaghetti in hot dogs and cook them up for dinner? Your kids will think you are the best!
Before easter we went to a fantastic birthday party for a 2 year old. A two year old who loves hot dogs and balloons more than anything, so of course the party had lots of balloons and hot dogs. awesome! I had plans to make this shirt weeks before the party, but of course I ended up doing it the night before. I was inspired by this picture I found on flickr:
I just used freezer paper and paint and it was done. I tried to make the bun a little less 2 dimensional, but I’m no artist so it only kind of worked. It’s good to know that freezer paper prints don’t have to just be blocks of color–you can art it up all you want.
A few people have emailed me to ask what the hell is freezer paper anyway. And because I’m lazy and waaay behind on replying to email (sorry) I will just tell you all here: it’s like butcher paper, where one side is paper and the other is plasticy. The plasticy side can be ironed onto fabric and then peeled off making it perfect for a ton of projects. I even use it to make patterns so I can just iron the patterns on and skip pinning. The kind I have is made by Reynolds and it’s right next to the tin foil in my grocery store. There is a whole group on flickr devoted to freezer paper stencils and there are some pretty awesome ones there.
