I hope all the moms out there had a great Mother’s Day; I sure did. After working in the working world for a week, and trying hard to get that new routine nailed down, I got to spend Sunday relaxing. I even had time over the weekend to do a blog project with Son.
We began with some coloring pages Son brought home from school, and since he had done such a nice job, and they were flowers, I thought they would make great Mother’s Day gifts for his grandmothers. I asked Son to cut out his pictures, and then I broke out my cutting tools, and a cutting mat. The only problem I had, was that I didn’t have any nice paper to mount his pictures onto. So I recycled…
That’s right, I used some old shopping bags from Ann Taylor Loft. The paper the bag was made of, was thick, and textured. The only issue was the word LOFT written across it. So I worked everything so that the drawings covered the logo. I used a glue stick to glue the pictures to the paper, and then cut the paper to fit into an 8×10 frame.
Lastly, I asked Son what he loved about each grandmother, wrote it on the paper, and had him write his name, and the last word of each paragraph.
First, the one he did for my mother…
And the one for my Mother In Law…
Obviously, the way to a man’s heart truly is through his belly, even when he’s just a four year old boy.
I hope the grandmothers like the gifts. They still haven’t received them…
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