Putting My Big Girl Panties On and Dealing With It

I found this pic one night not very long after Amazing Boyfriend was diagnosed with cancer.

At the time that I found it, this was exactly how I was feeling. 

(To be honest, I still feel this way) 

A LOT of people have commented on how well I seem to be taking the news. Trust me, it's not that I'm taking the news well, because I'm really not. It's that I need to be strong. I've had to step up, make tough decisions, hold it together and do everything I've needed to do for us. I adopted a saying not long after ABF was diagnosed with cancer, which makes me laugh or at least smile. I tell everyone that "I have to put my Big Girl panties on and deal with it." 

And out of that saying came the brilliant idea for a craft project... 

Big Girl Panties!!! 

(Awww, come on, that made you at least giggle, if not laugh out loud.)

Oh yes, I did...

Wanna see how I did it?



supplies
cotton panties
fabric paint
freezer paper
paint brushes
iron
foam board
silhouette machine

First I created my stencil design with my silhouette software. Then I used my silhouette machine to cut it out on the freezer paper. 

I ironed the freezer paper stencil onto the back of my pair of panties, making sure I got my little pieces in the right spots so that the letters would come out alright. 

I used my foam board piece to fit inside the panties to keep the fabric paint from bleeding through. Then took my fabric paint and paint brush and went to town. 

When the paint was dry I removed my stencil and ...TADAA!!!

And while I was at it I used a few more designs to stencil onto other plain cotton panties

Now when I tell people that I'm gonna but my big girl panties on and deal with it, they might just wonder if that means literally...



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