I See a Little Silhouetto

 Can you tell which little pet this is?

I thought it would be kind of fun to make some silhouettes of the kids, even though I wouldn't necessarily say that decorating with such is my personal style.  After looking up a few tutorials online, I merged everything together and came up with my own approach that worked perfectly and was easy, peasy, lemon sneasy.  And done in about 5 minutes.  It doesn't get much easier than that.  Hahaha.

 Bottom row -- L to R: Ethan, Grace, Sophie.  Top row -- L to R: Jane, Alex.

To create these little portraits, I simply posed each child in front of an open doorway and snapped a picture on my cell phone.  I then uploaded the pictures, inserted them into a Word document {fiddling around with the sizes to try and make them all proportional} and then printed them out on regular old computer paper.  To finish them off, I cut them carefully out along their profile {this was probably the trickiest part} and colored over them with a black sharpie.  Voila.  Done.  

{The backlighting from standing inside the house in front of the open door helped to throw the profile in shadow which helped a little when it came time to cut it out.}

 It was Jane in that top silhouette in case you haven't figured that out yet.  :)  

I have to say, I was much more tickled by the end result than I was expecting to be.  Something about the way that these profiles were so recognizably each of my children kind of warmed my heart!  I found these little frames at Michael's {I think they're 2 1/2 X 3 1/2}, taped each silhouette to a piece of heavy watercolor paper that I already had lying around the house, and popped them into place.  {Fun fact -- there were only 4 black picture frames left at the store, so I bought a white one and spray painted it black for our poor little fifth born child. (Krylon "Black" in a satin finish.)}

{Don't worry -- displayed on a cake stand in the middle of the dining room table is NOT their final resting ground.  Hahahaha.}