More Ideas for Mother's Day

I can't take credit for this awesome idea, I found the instructions here. I made this for a friends birthday gift. I loved making it and think it is such a brilliant idea. I think it would make a great Mother's Day gift. You have this cute box, take the lid off, and . . .

the box unfolds and has all of these fun places for everything. Pockets for cards, note cards, tags, address book, a pen holder and the pocket on the bottom right is for stamps.


These are the note cards I made, I had a few extra tags, so I just added them to the note card.

These are the cards I made.

These are the tags I made.

Love the idea! I think every mom would love this too!




Here's another gift idea.
I made these using this template. My goal is to make a few more to have on hand for gift giving. I think it's nice to have things on hand to give to a friend who is sick, a birthday or just because.



The stationary box holds the card, envelopes, some stationary to doodle on and the pen has the matching paper inside it (so it all matches, how cool it that? I make about five cards in each kit and stamp envelopes and stationary to match. The pen's were purchased at Wal-mart, undo the pen, roll some paper and stick inside and put the pen back together and you have a complete matching stationary set.
Look how cute this is to give as a gift.
They are so stinkin' cute!

Cards, envelopes, stationary and pen to match. Great Mother's Day Gift!



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Block picture holder

Yesterday I gave a little hint about what the other gift that I gave my mom for mother's day (actually she is getting them this weekend) and that it involved my siblings, only they don't know anything about it. I made picture holder's for my mom to display all 21 of her grandchildren. I made each block resemble each of us kids with how many children we have, so the "M' is my oldest brother and he has four kids, therefore there are four wire picture hangers for each of his kids. So each block has the number of kids we each have, from oldest to youngest. (I hope that all made sense).

I started with a 4x4 and cut it square. I sanded each block.

Painted each block and then sanded the edges.

I bought this paper packet awhile ago and have loved it, each page has a letter of the alphabet. I bought a small packet and a 12x12 packet. This is what I used for my blocks.

This is a sample of what the paper looks like.

I cut my paper 3 x 3 and mod podged it to the block.

I then added upholstery nails to the corners of the blocks. I didn't do it in all four corners of all of the blocks, I didn't want it to look boxy. (Is that a word?) So on this one I only did two on the top corners.

This one I did all four corners.

And this one I did opposite corners.

This is what they all look like at this point.

Next I drilled a hole in the top of the block.

I then cut heavy duty wire different lengths and the curled the tops.

Using my glue gun I put glue in the hole to hold the wires.

I placed the wires in the hole and then tied a black ribbon around all of the wires.

And there it is all ready for 21 pictures of the grandchildren.

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