Mother's Day Gifts

If you are one of our Moms or Grandmas

or Great Grandmas

STOP READING NOW!!!

I used to be super thoughtful and considerate on mothers day. I used to get all the kiddo's involved in a fun personalized craft and make a pit stop at every mom, grandma and great grandmas house on mother's day. Did you see the words USED TO BE? This year I did the same gift of every one but each one can be customized. And with gas being a million dollars a gallon I don't think we will be driving all over the place this mothers day.

Also Mr. Tripp told me I had a budget of $0 to work with. Well... it's safe to say I went over budget.

First I put in about an hour of design time this morning on my mac. Than I headed out to Sam's club to pick up my prints. They cost $18.00 for 12 8x10's.

Next the girls and I went to the dollar tree, to get 8x10 frames, dry erase markers and cards. That set me back an other $18.00.

I'm very happy with the finished product.

I love you because...

I hope our moms and grands have fun with these. I'm going to tell the kids to write on them every time they go for visits.

I stole the idea from this etsy shop. Shhhh! don't tell on me.

I also put one Mr. Tripp night stand. I thought it would be fun to tell him all the reasons I love him. And since its in our bed room I can be dirty.

Grand total $36.00 for 11 mothers day gift

plus one for Mr. Tripp = $3 pre-present.

Oh Yeah!

xxoo

Birthday gift for Jennifer

So I missed yeasterdays blog. I might have failed my blog a day goal but I will not give up. Today you get two posts.

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Yeasterday we celebrated Aunt Jennifer's 37th birthday. Jennifer is a wonderful, special person and we are all so blessed to have her in our life's. I wanted to make her something as special as she is.

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This is how I made a personalized polk-a-dot towel for her.

I started with one bath towel and two hand towels. I found them on sale at Kohl's and paid less than $10.00 for all of them.

I cut a letter "J" and some circles out of the hand towels. Then I arranged and sewed the cut outs on to the bath towel. I used a zig zag stick and stayed as close to the edge as possible.

And finished!

I hope Jennifer likes it as much as Taylor dose.

I stole the idea from V and co.

Gifts from Japan

My dear, dear friend Emily, her son Miles and Husband Milky just returned home from a two week vacation in Japan, Milky's home country.

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Emily was kind enough to bring us back gift. I LOVE gifts!

Japanese linen fabric. Cherry blossoms by the river. This picture dose not do it justice.

Kimono fabric squares. A thick stack of them.

And chop sticks. A pair for all of us. Now we will have to have them over for egg rolls and rice so we can have a chop stick lesson from the pros.

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Thank you Emily!

sorry we killed your plant.