Have you done much flying? What are your pet peeves when traveling? (especially by plane)  I don’t have many actually.  The most predominant is that I hate people that don’t seem to realize that our space is limited and lay their seat back so much that for them to be comfortable, I’m NOT!!  HELLO!  YOU ARE IN MY COMFORT ZONE!! I’M NOT A CHILD!  I HAVE LONG LEGS!!  (ok…sorry…yep! This one gets to me the most!)

However, I don’t have much control over that situation so on to one we do have control over – the annoyance of trying to pick your luggage out of the other 9 million that come out on the carrousel. Our flying has only consisted of going to Disney so far so we only have to do this when we get back home to our Texas airport, (Thank You Magical Express) but I still hate watching each one and having to look closely to pick ours out.

We bought Becka’s new luggage at Christmas so there was no replacing that standard black set, but both Cameron and I needed new luggage so one of my first criteria was not black, blue or red (these are the colors I was seeing the most of in the stores). So Cameron has a brand new burgandy/marroonish set (really intended to find a more distinctive one, but we stumbled upon this set at a price I couldn’t resist), and I picked up a very bright purple set yesterday. But I still wasn’t satisfied (neurotic you say? maybe!)!  So we’re taking everything one step further and customizing our luggage!  Yep!  We will all have custom – one of a kind luggage from here on out.

We bought Becka a few patches and then some ironon transfer paper and some lime green fabric. She is sewing all of this all over her suitcase(s) as you can see.  We tease her and say that her suitcase has chicken pox, but it does look cute and most certainly will be noticeable coming down the luggage racks. This is only after day 1 of working. She’s going to be sure to add chicken pox err…polka dots to the sides and back too so that no matter how it comes out of the machines, we can identify it quickly.

We’re trying a different technique for Cameron’s. We’re spray painting it.  Yes I found “Spray Paint for Apparel” at our local craft store and stencils and we are attempting to do hers that way. This has been quite an interesting experience.  Here are the pictures of that after the first attempt.  I am not totally impressed, but I think I’m going to run back and pick up a glitter fabric pen or paint next time we are out and outline it, and then I think it will be awesome.

We plan to create our own Mickey head stencil today and attempt to do that on each one also so that will be fun I think.  I’m actually holding off on mine for a couple reasons. First I think my bright purple luggage (you can kind of see it in the corner of Becka’s picture) will be more unique, and second I’m waiting to see how both of theirs turn out so I can decide which method I like better in the end. 

So what do you think?