One thing that did catch my eye was a door mat customized to each set of grandparents.
Before:
After:
The first obstacle of this project was to find a door mat in a small town at Christmas time that didn't already have a design on it. Luckily, N's brother and sister-in-law were headed into the city and offered to stop at IKEA for me since I knew they would have the perfect coir door mats.
Next, was getting my stencils designed and cut out. It was much more work than I expected. I actually changed the design of the second after working on the first. I'd also go back and redo the first if I could get another door mat easily. I also should have found a smaller utility knife or craft scalpel which would have made cutting the stencil much easily.
The last step was the easiest. Spray painting! Spray painting may have not been the best option. If you don't spray at a good angle then you end up with shadows. The first stencil I made had several small letters and some of them run into each other because of it.
And Voila!
Both sets of grandparents loved them and I sort of want to make my own now.
