{"id":159331,"date":"2010-01-09T18:11:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T23:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/diy-personalized-home-accessories\/"},"modified":"2010-01-09T18:11:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T23:11:19","slug":"diy-personalized-home-accessories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/159331","title":{"rendered":"DIY Personalized Home Accessories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wouldn\u2019t want everything in my house to have a family photo on it, but sometimes it is really nice to have a few small personalized things around your home. Paying for a personalized item that someone else designs for you can be costly. That\u2019s why I prefer to do the personalization myself. There are two ways to do this.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/files\/2010\/01\/heron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;margin-left: 0px;border-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"184\" alt=\"heron\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/files\/2010\/01\/heron_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Using Print on Demand Services Like Cafe Press or Zazzle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Using one of these services, you can make your own small accessories, such as mouse pads, canvas prints, mugs, or sculptures. They are fairly easy to use. Uploading a photo, adding text and playing around with fonts and the way things are aligned is really just a matter of clicking on things and dragging stuff around. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Doing Personalization Completely on Your Own<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Printable iron on products make creating your own placemats, pillows, or virtually anything else made with fabric a snap. Just use your photo editing software to adjust your picture, add text and follow the instructions on the iron on paper to print out a transfer. You can also make transfers with a ton of different mixed media products, like gel medium and transfer mediums. Some of these products work on glass or wood. I used gel medium to transfer a laser printed color copy of a heron onto a flat piece of driftwood that I\u2019d primed in the spot where I was putting the transfer. I painted the last name of the person I was giving it to on the driftwood, sealed it several times and now she has a completely unique sign for her house by the water.<\/p>\n<p>Do you make your own personalized home accessories?<\/p>\n<p>Photo: K. Thomas<\/p>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/diy-personalized-home-accessories\/\">DIY Personalized Home Accessories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wouldn\u2019t want everything in my house to have a family photo on it, but sometimes it is really nice to have a few small personalized things around your home. Paying for a personalized item that someone else designs for you can be costly. That\u2019s why I prefer to do the personalization myself. There are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}