Embellishing Life: mother's day

Monday, March 10, 2014

A Bird Feeder for Spring {& Kids Craft}

Wow! Snow might be in the forecast tomorrow, but it's nice out there today! Breezy Spring days cannot come soon enough for me. Although here in the midwest we never know what we're gonna get next. Sometimes we skip right over Spring and straight into sticky humidity.
On the brighter side...

...A very nice lady over at RedEnvelope kindly sent over a pretty little package my way.
Seriously pretty.
I love little details and pretty packaging.

I picked this hanging glass bird feeder from their Mother's Day section.

LOVE it ♥ ♥ ♥

Of course we had to hang it in a tree in the front yard right away.

Yep, that's the little guy and his dog anxiously waiting for a feathered visitor :)

After picking the spot for our bird feeder, we had a little fun whipping up a quick bird craft.

I came across this pin on pinterest...

Pretty, right?!

So we thought we'd make our own version.

Here's what we did:

♥ Here's hoping Spring days come quickly ♥

A Disclaimer :) I was given my hanging glass bird feeder free of charge. All opinions are mine and mine alone
sharing here: Made By You Monday (Cindy@Skip to my Lou) Tip Me Tuesday (Laurie@Tip Junkie)
Take-A-Look Tuesday (Sugar Bee Crafts)
Inspiration Board (Carolyn@Homework)

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Mother's Day Notepad

The ladybug caught the crafting bug a long time ago. When she sees me getting supplies out she asks, "Are we gonna do a craft?" So it's no surprise that she enjoyed designing these notepads for her Nana and Grandma for Mother's Day.

Here's what we did...

First I folded a plain white sheet of printer paper into fourths.

At the bottom of each of the four sections the ladybug drew a picture or wrote a message. Since our printer is also a copier, I copied the original onto colored printer paper. I printed about 25 sheets (which will make 100 sheets in one notepad).