Mother's Day projects

We're always kind of last minute at our house, and Mother's Day was no exception. We spent the Saturday before Mother's Day making some little gifts for the grandmothers in our family. We're very blessed to have so many grandmothers around . Liv has a grandmother and a maternal great-grandmother on each side of her family, and most of them live in our neighborhood.

So when Mother's Day comes around, we have to think of something that she can do to honor each of these women. I like the project to be meaningful, but also something that can be accomplished pretty quick, given that we'll be making multiples.

This is what we ended up making this year:

I got some plain wooden frames from the craft store, along with a stack of colored tissue paper. I put a base coat of white paint and then helped Liv decoupage on some tissue paper squares.

I hadn't planned ahead, of course, so I didn't have pictures to put in the frame. Instead, I borrowed (ahem, stole) and idea from Denise. I created some fill-in-the-blank sentences about the grandmothers and then asked Liv to supply the answers. I printed them out on pretty paper, framed them up, and was good to go.