Mothers Day https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/mothers-day/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Sun, 29 May 2016 00:05:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Mothers Day https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/mothers-day/ 32 32 16720591 Mothers Day 2016 L‑O-V‑E https://www.quakerranter.org/mothers-day-craft-present/ https://www.quakerranter.org/mothers-day-craft-present/#respond Tue, 10 May 2016 00:22:02 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=41679 DIY Mother's Day present kid handprint.

Last year, the kids and I made a framed handprint collage-like present for Julie and Mothers Day (right). This year I followed it up with a folksy photo of each of the kids holding up hand-drawn letters spelling out “LOVE.” This was inspired by this 2009 post on a blog called The Inadvertent Farmer.

The first step was getting pictures of each kid with a letter. It wasn’t too bad as I just had to take enough to get each one looking cute.

Here are the four pictures that went into this year's frame. As you can see, it is very basic, just paper and marker. Writing the letters freeform gives it a folksy, personalized charm.

A trickier task was finding a frame to display four pictures. It took the third store before I lucked out. Because of the timing, I had actually printed the pictures before I had the frame and so had fingers crossed that the size would work.

Mothers Day T-minus-one: Three of the kids helped me frame the pictures the night before.

Framed Mothers Day presents two years running!

Once made, the absolute hardest was getting a group shot of the kids with Julie holding it!

Proud Mama with her Mothers Day present from the kids.

]]> https://www.quakerranter.org/mothers-day-craft-present/feed/ 0 41679 Mothers Day 2015 art project https://www.quakerranter.org/mothers-day-2015-art-project/ https://www.quakerranter.org/mothers-day-2015-art-project/#respond Sun, 10 May 2015 18:09:09 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=41670 Loosely inspired by this article, Mothers Day Frame Tutorial — DIY, I made a framed of the kid’s handprints as a Mothers Day present.

Mothers Day handprint craft ingredients.

Mothers Day unveiling: Mom likes it!

The kids show off the hands that made the Mothers Day prints.

A Mothers Day memory now hangs on the wall.

 

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