{"id":290,"date":"2012-04-26T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ladyslittleloves.com\/2012\/04\/diy-growth-chart-and-giveaway.html"},"modified":"2012-04-26T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T15:25:00","slug":"diy-growth-chart-and-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livingwithlady.com\/2012\/04\/diy-growth-chart-and-giveaway.html","title":{"rendered":"DIY Growth Chart and GIVEAWAY!"},"content":{"rendered":"
I then used a tape measure and marked every inch up the left side of the board using a pencil. I made the lines 1″ long. (Make sure your measuring device is accurate! I was initially using a ruler that wasn’t completely accurate and it resulted in a lot of erasing!)<\/p>\n
This is a very important step!<\/b> If you don’t want your board starting from the floor (think about baseboards) then you will want to account for that empty space. I decided to hang my board 6″ off the ground, so I began marking my board at 6″ from the bottom of the board, making the total height 6′ 6″ once hung.<\/p>\n
Using a black sharpie, I then went over the 1″ lines, and also extended every third line to be 2″ long to make it look more like a ruler. I also extended every line that marked a foot to 2.5″ long.<\/p>\n
I then taped my stencils on the board next to the appropriate lines. NOTE<\/b>: This is where I ultimately messed up. I wanted my board to look as much like a ruler as possible, and it wasn’t until I was finished that I realized that I taped my numbers on wrong. Instead, they should be taped\u00a0perpendicular\u00a0to the board.<\/p>\n I then used my sharpie and colored in the numbers.<\/p>\n Here is my newly stained board. .<\/p>\n And the finished product. We hung this board 6″ off the ground so that the total height would reach 6’6″.<\/p>\n