Hi, my name is Heidi, and I'm a Mother's Day Failure. It is now a week after the holiday, and my mother and mother-in-law haven't received their gifts. The boys worked really hard on them, and they were totally excited to give their grandmothers their gifts...but then their scatterbrained mom LOST half the present. Totally and completely can't find it anywhere. I've literally torn the house apart and turned everything upside down, and still nothing. See? Total failure!
The boys and I made these sweet flowers a couple of months ago for the current issue of Sacramento Parent Magazine, and then last week the boys made a couple of gorgeous rainbow pour painted flower pots to put them in. The flower pots came out lovely, but then I drew a total blank when trying to remember where we stashed the flowers. The sad part is that I can remember that I put them "somewhere safe where I'll remember them..." Riiiiiight.
So, Happy belated Mother's Day, Grandmothers! Here's your sneak peek, and hopefully it won't be 2013 before I find your gift! *Fingers crossed* because I have two disappointed little boys who are quite ticked at me for being irresponsible with their things. Oops.
7 comments:
Seriously.. this is Hilarious! And only because this is totally something that I would do! I have an awesome idea.. make it happen and then um.. yeah.. lose it! So you didn't FAIL persay.. you just put it hold until a later date.. but as far as the project.. I think you guys totally nailed it!
xoxo
Amie @ Pinkapotamus
Can we see the rainbow pots, pretty please?
I'll post a picture tomorrow, Laura! :)
Thanks Amie! Glad I'm not the only one who would do something like this LOL! :)
Hi,
this is BEAUTIFUL! I'd like to adapt it to a felt flower necklace project I'll be teaching 2nd-4th grade girls. Did you use a template for the flowers, and did your boys trace and cut?
Thanks foryour lovely work!
Hi Jennifer!
It would be rather simple to cut a template out of cardstock and then cut the flowers out of your felt. I have to admit though, that since I knew my finished flowers were going to be published in a magazine I went ahead and purchased pre-cut flowers from http://www.etsy.com/shop/bbdsupplies to save time and make them look extra uniform and pretty :)
Thanks Heidie, that explains whythey are so perfectly uniform :-) I was concerned my girls would fall short. I went ahead and tried it using some templates and sme freehand. Thank You for the inspiration!
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