*Collaborative post
We have all
experienced that when our children go to nursery, they start leaving the odd
bit of clothing behind. It can take a few days before you notice that your child’s
favorite jumper or cardigan has gone missing and it will be exactly that
morning when your son or daughter wants to wear it!
In our
nursery they had a basket available for all parents to go through when someone
has lost something. Most of the time you’d find it, but sometimes you don’t. If you
haven’t labelled it, then good luck in finding again. Unless the washing machine has eaten it, then I believe, it has gone for
all eternity.
However,
getting used to writing your child’s name into their clothes can be a god send
because not only can you identify it amongst all the pile of clothes easily,
but it is also easier for someone else to allocate it you.
When I started
labelling my sons clothes, I used a marker pen to write his name into all his
clothes, but soon realized that I had damaged the fabric with the strong,
alcoholic permanent marker. This made it difficult to use as a hand-me-down or
even resell at the local flea market for obvious reasons.
So, I
investigated fabric labels. I remember my mother using fabric
labels on all my clothes and I found this not only a charming, nostalgic factor
but also rather to be efficient in the sense of re-usability.
I soon
found out that getting a batch of labels made was well worth the initial money
spent because different to permanent markers, fabric woven labels can be
removed once your child has outgrown said jumper.
It wasn’t just the money
factor to me, but it turned out to be a lot of fun making your own labels. Reusing
the labels was also an appealing factor, with so much waste around the world.
As it turns
out, we are not using the fabric labels for nursery anymore but for school.
There has not been a time when that rugby top, which has gone A.W.O.L, has not
been returned to Lost Property. Apparently, children are the worst culprits for losing stuff, about 7 items per month!!!
So, every
time my son does find something at school again, I high-five myself for having
paid for these labels.
It is
amazing as to what you can do with these labels, you can customize them
yourself which gives it that edge, I mean, I never thought I would be
customizing labels for my kids’ clothes, but it is rather impressive as to what
can be done.
I remember my mother using a white label with my name in red, but
this was so long ago that I wonder what capabilities the embroidery machines
had back then?
This
customization gave me another idea. I made some labels for little DIY home-made
fabric bags that I created together for my son’s birthday. We use them as
labels to stick on with fabric glue and create different designs and when we
made the bags, he hands them out at the end of his birthday party with little
goodies inside. If you are not good with using a sewing machine, get some
labels made and add them to whatever you feel. It really does make your arts
and crafts stand out, I totally recommend.
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