Mother's Day gifts

The real gifts of Mother's day are of course spending time with our children and grandchildren.  Every year my one daughter and her family take me out to a wonderful brunch that's on a riverfront and near a park.  After stuffing ourselves we amble on over to the park and walk off the food while the kids play on the playgrounds.  I love that! I look forward to it every year.  And it's a two-fer for her husband since he's giving her a Mother's Day gift while she's giving me mine.  Win-win! 

Don't worry.  My other children stop by during the day and drop off a little gift and sit and have coffee or a little treat with me.  Sometimes we watch a show together or play board games. 

I wanted to share some gift ideas for your Grandmothers for Mother's day.  Just a little something the kids can give Grammy. 

     Journals are fun and these are designed just for Grandmothers.  It has day and weekly planner, note, and to-do list pages among others.  A  gift grandkids can give that special Mom-Mom

Or Grammy

  

Or Gran

 So she can keep track of her play dates and movie nights with her grandkids.










Hope whatever you do you have a Happy Mother's Day!

Z is for Zentangle

 

 

Z is for Zentangle

 

 

 

Zentangle is an art form that uses structured patterns to create beautiful images.  It's a form of doodling which is made up of  simple patterns.  I just discovered it recently and I really enjoy the simplicity of it.  I especially like the booklet "Zentangle 8" because it was about using it for monograms and alphabets. 

 

 

 

I thought it would be fun to make a monogram to hang on the wall.  You need a wooden letter, available at craft stores and a black sharpie.  I chose several zentangle patterns out of the two zentangle books  I decorated the letter E for my daughter's room.  It was my first attempt , but I think it came out ok.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you do this craft, provide a link in the comments so I can come see.   This would make a great Mother's Day gift. 

 The photos are for the same item which is a white letter with black designs.  But in the one photo the light reflected so I added another photo with different exposure so you could see the design.