Happy Mother's Day

That card made me cry this morning! Madison has been singing a song about me being a 'meaner mom' and this really made my day! Now whenever I am having a rough day with Mad I can just open the card hear her say I am 'the best mom ever!'

Happy Mother's Day!

ps: of course I taped this with my cell phone, so sorry about that!

Pretty Flower Painting

The beautiful weather and our crazy schedule has left little time for art projects but we did manage to break out the paint late last week.

I adore how these flower paintings came out! Initially I planned on using a cork to stamp the flowers but we opted to use a Q-tip instead.

Madison had a great time stamping all different colors.

A beautiful piece of artwork to add to our growing collection!

Flower Prints

I have been meaning to do this craft for quite a while now but we never seem to have a small soda bottle in the house. With a quick phone call to daddy at work we were finally able to acquire one....and then a week later we finally got to the craft!

All you need to make these uber cute flowers is paint and an empty bottle. So simple!

Start by stamping flower petals from the bottom of the bottle. Madison chose to stamp pink and purple flowers this time.

We decided to add glitter to the center of the flowers so we waited until the petals were dry before we moved on to the next step. Now use the bottle top to stamp the flower centers.

A bit of glitter for good measure...

awww how pretty!

This stamping technique would be perfect for making homemade wrapping paper just in time for Mother's Day!