Rainbow Tablecloth

Red and Yellow and Pink and Green

Purple and Orange and Blue

I can sing a Rainbow,

Sing a Rainbow, 

Sing a Rainbow too.

Who doesn't sing that rhyme whenever there's a Rainbow?

I always do :) I can't help it. 

So, when I was perusing Pinterest for ideas for my daughter's baptism theme - HELLO RAINBOW:)

Plus, it goes along with a song that the LDS primary children sing to go along with their Baptism - 'Whenever I am Baptized'.

Here's what I did.

Visited the Dollar Tree and picked up a bunch of plastic tablecloths, minus orange (which Walmart had)

Then came the laborious task of literally being on my knees for two hours for one Rainbow table skirt. I made two! So, four hours! BUT I think it was well worth it. What do you think?

I bought white as my BASE cloth. This is what you'll stick your strips of colored plastic cloths onto.

An easy way to cut the tablecloths is when you pull them out of the cellophane wrapper, keep them as they are. Then all you do is cut them in half LENGTH WAYS!

You will use TWO lengths of each color for one whole cloth. Which is one whole colored tablecloth

Then you begin the long knee hurting, the back-breaking task of sticking each color on. 

I marked my middle first and then joined both strips of cloth. Then taking one of those strips, I measured where the middle of that was and stuck it down. THAT way its easier to GATHER in sections and not be left with either too much or not enough. AND you'll get an EVEN gather

You have to GATHER as you go and stick.

I found it easier to use a yardstick to hold my gathers then taking a clear tape to stick it down

JUST KEEP GOING :)

AND GOING

UNTIL YOU'VE GOT YOURSELF A RAINBOW TABLE SKIRT!

I MADE TWO OF THESE ONES FOR THE FRONT AND ONE FOR THE BACK. I JOINED THEM ON THE SIDES OF THE TABLE

I used some extra tablecloths I bought on top of the table to hide the tape I used to hold the table skirt up.

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Sunrise.

Today my day started as usual. Waking up earlier than I wanted but hey I had to wake Seren and Carys up for school. 

Once that was accomplished (grudgingly by the girls I might add) I headed down to assemble breakfast and school lunch for Seren when I spotted through my kitchen windows...a most soul inspiring, word provoking sight.

SUNRISE.

I was quick enough to capture this beautiful sight over the Wasatch mountains as the minutes passed

You can see the subtle changes in color in each picture.

And it warms my heart and soul to be able to witness this, most mornings.

But today with the storm clouds gathering,

gave the sunrise an added exquisiteness that one can't deny that somehow each day brings a new hope.

And to know that there is NEVER one sunrise or sunset that are the same. 

Truly amazing!

I think these would look awesome printed out on a canvas for all to see.

Not to mention my amazing photography skill :)

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