Showing posts with label Mother's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mother's Day. Show all posts

Monday, January 31, 2011

Tired.

{Sigh} Just thought I would share some of these great quotes that I found while browsing blogs yesterday. I thought, perhaps if your feeling like me (just tired....of the laundry thing, the sick kid, the no sleep, the mom thing and the thought of making dinner makes me wanna scream thing) these could help you along.

"Women rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing them by, because they know they hold tomorrow tightly in their arms. When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire - or the shaping sounds of lullabies? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in Congresses?" - Neal A. Maxwell

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautiful tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my nails from helping weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheek and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." -Marjorie Pay Hinckley


Here's hoping to a happy Monday!
(and praying that tax returns go well :)

Friday, April 30, 2010

Mother's Day gift ideas

Can you believe Mother's Day is almost here?! It is, next to my birthday, my favorite day of the year :)
I know I refer a lot to Martha and her ideas (I love the woman what can I say) but here are
some gift ideas for Mother's Day...

(click on the photo to get the how to)

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Flowered brooch

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Sugar cookies

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Homemade bath salts

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Herb garden kit

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Monogrammed tea towels

Have you figured out your Mother's Day gifts?
What are you doing?

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Great Mother's Day Gift!


Mother's Day is just around the corner! I can't believe we are into the middle of April!
Well this next project is something I made for my dad last Father's Day, but could easily be done for that mother in your life!
I bought my frame at Michael's, make sure it comes with a matte board already in it! I covered the board with some of my favorite paper and Mod Podged over it (love that stuff). I added ribbon and from there I wrote down a bunch of words that best describe my dad (or mother) and also included the names of my brothers and mom and formed it in Photoshop (love that even more than Mod Podge!) I used different fonts and sizes and colors....That is it! Printed it off a Costco for .13 (HELLO) He loved it and it was so easy to do! You could do it for anybody as a gift!

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Check out the crepe paper projects in the post below!