Eventually, however, I came up with a design, which is based on our kitchen wallpaper. My mom loves this wallpaper so much, even though it shows signs of wear. Here's the Wild Olive take on it:
I set this up, and placed it on a panel to be printed by Spoonflower on their linen-cotton canvas, which I've heard is nice for tea towels. But wouldn't you know, I waited too long on my plan. There is a nice long backlog of printing, so the 10 days I allowed for will actually be a few weeks, and my mom will have to wait for her gift. I really don't blame Spoonflower...if I had actually made a decision and acted on it earlier, this would be fine.
In a similar story, I feel ridiculous, but I still haven't figured out a Mother's Day craft for the preschoolers at church this Sunday. Seriously, what's wrong with me?
That is really cool. I love the tea towel idea!
ReplyDeleteYou could have the kids make tissue paper roses (or any flower)with a pipe cleaner stem to give to their mothers. It's traditional for mothers to wear some sort of flower corsage on Mother's Day, so you could even glue a brooch back on the flowers and shorten the stems so the kids can make a little flower pin.
Good luck!
Everyone I've talked to has been ill-prepared for Mother's Day this year. I think it is because Easter was so late in April. Everyone was focused on that so Mother's Day came from out of the blue!
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of paper flowers. Dana at MADE just had a tutorial on them using napkins and making them into boutonnieres which could just as easily be corsages. This could easily be linked to a religious reference as well since the Virgin Mary is often associated with roses.
i agree with elisabeth--i work in retail & people were SHOCKED to learn that mother's day is already sunday...i also think crafty people need to plan their gifts WAAAAY ahead of the normal shop-at-the-stores people...it's hard...i feel like i'm never on top of the gift-giving game, but i feel like hand-made gifts are worth the extra wait :)
ReplyDeleteOH MY LORD AND BUTTER do you know how cute a dress would be made from that fabric?!?!
ReplyDeleteI was making my my a tea towel for Mother's Day too, but I waited to long to find the perfect pattern and it's not in a PDF form. Poor Mom won't get her gift for at least another week.
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