My wedding pants!

Nik has often referred to me as 'Da Missus', even before we were married, so I had an idea to surprise him on the wedding day when it came to bedtime with some special pants!  I also wore them for the photos I mentioned I gave him as one of his wedding day presents.

I had seen the personalised underwear you can get with Mrs 'X' embroidered on the bum.  The only ones I could find were blue, white, nude or black.  I really wanted a pair of olive green pants with sparkly writing so decided to try and make customise my own.  I thought if I could get a white pair of cotton pants I could dye them green and find an iron on transfer for the writing.

Finding the underwear was easy - quick trip to M&S and I got these so I had 4 spares in case any went wrong! Nice bit of lace at the front but plenty of space on the bum for the writing and super comfy to boot :)

Next I found the transfers on ebay.  They can make custom ones to say anything you like so I asked for 'Da Missus' (and bought some for my bridesmaids!)

I had trouble finding the right colour dye, all the 'olive' green ones I found were too dark but when I was hunting for some wedding bits and bobs in Hobbycraft one day I spotted these Pebeo fabric paints in LOADS of colours, including my perfect colour, Greengold opaque!

This is actually Aniseed green but I couldn't find a pic of Greengold!

Then began the messy part!  Because it was paint and not dye, I had to try and paint over the whole area of the pants and decided the best way was just with my fingers rather than trying to use a brush on fabric.

Front half done :)

Clever use of nose to press the shutter!  ;)

After that, I ironed them to fix the colour and then ironed on the transfer.  I also found these silver metal dragonfly transfers on ebay and added one of them.

Dragonfly transfers

Finished product!  :D