How Does Your Garden Grow?

Garden of love, garden of flowers!

Mother's Day Gift Idea # 5

Mother's love beautiful bouquet's of flowers from the garden! With this frugal, easy and quick gift idea, mom can bring fresh cut flowers in from the garden anytime she likes!

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Happy May Day!

Happy May Day!

The pagan festival of saying goodbye to dreary winter and the welcoming of spring!

I have very fond memories of May Day as a child. I remember the entire day of school revolved around dancing around a May Pole, eating and making flower baskets to give to our mother's when we returned home! Traditionally, you would place a basket of flowers, anonymously on the door step of someone, ring the bell and run!

I hope at least one of you reading this can relate! I can't be that old!

In honor of a fond, fading tradition, we crafted up a flower cone for you and left it on your door step "DING DONG"!!!

To learn more about May Day, please check it out here!

For who is God except the Lord?

And who is a rock, except our God?

Psalm 18:31

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Vintage Tray & Sweets Cups

Something pretty for Mom!

Mother's Day Gift Idea # 3

If you read our previous post, you will recall our Dollar Store Happy Birthday Treat Tray project!

 Here is our second tray, perfect for your Mother's Day sweets!

If you are hosting a little Mother's Day gathering for mom, serve her some sweet treats and then gift her the tray afterwards!

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Butterfly Gift Cone & Stationary

      Beautiful butterfly themed stationary gift set!
                    Mother's Day Gift Idea #1

We have Mother's Day covered! We put this thoughtful gift idea together so mom can always have a nice set of stationary to write her notes and lists on! Come see how we put it together.....

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Homemade Gift Cones

                              Homemade Mother's Day!

                    Mother's Day is May 8th!

This year we are focusing on homemade from the heart Mother's Day gifts! Mother's really love and appreciate a gift that is from the heart and hands of their children, we certainly do!

We will be bringing you a series of gift ideas to help make gift giving, budget savvy and  Homespun With Love,

using things you have around the house or from the Dollar Store!

To start things off, we made up some scrapbook paper gift cones

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Happy Birthday Treat Tray

From plain old Dollar Store tray

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Happy Birthday treat tray!

We thought it was time to expand our collection of party serving pieces and decided to do~it~ourselves! 

This little craft project was fun, easy and budget friendly!

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Quick & Easy - Decoupage Pots

DECOUPAGE POTS!

The dollar store is a magical place. Here's how I gave our bathroom a small face lift for around $4.00, and about 30 minutes time.

I found these terracotta pots at the dollar store. The big huge plus, other than the price was that they were made in USA! I picked up two and hoped they would survive the drive home, I've broken a few things in my lifetime! Thankfully we made it home. The pots sat for a few weeks, no plants in them, but still, not broken either! I was sorting my scrapbook paper setting aside what I thought I'd be using for some wall art in our bathroom when the pots caught my eye (so did the Mod Podge!).

STEP ONE: I am not much of a researcher, I tend to make an experiment out of everything and didn't look into treating the pots with anything before I painted the trim. You may or may not want to do this, I had perfectly good luck with painting over the terracotta color, my colors were on the darker side, so if you're using a lighter paint you may want to do a base coat of something or other! My first step was to tape around the pot just below the top lip. UNNECESSARY step, the paper you'll be adding around the base of the pot will cover up any painting mistakes. It's still kind of fun to use the blue painters tape!

STEP TWO: Paint around the top of the pot. I did about 3 coats to make sure there were no light spots.

STEP THREE: (Because I do everything a little back

wards) Cut strips of your favorite paper, I cut mine about an inch and a half wide.

STEP FOUR: If the paint is dry and you have taped along the edge, remove the tape.

STEP FIVE: Get your Mod Podge and a sponge brush and start applying the strips of paper!

STEP SIX: When all paper strips are applied you may have to do some trimming of the paper. To finish the bottom of my pot I folded the strips under the base and Mod Podged the bottom.

STEP SEVEN: Give the whole pot, not including the inside, a coat of Mod Podge and let dry!

STEP EIGHT: Show these puppies off! :)

EASY!


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