Mother's Day Bookmarks

With mother's day just around the corner, I wanted to make something for the moms in our life. Inspired by our new son, I decided to create "Grandma" bookmarks.

My husband recently finished the electrical writing in our basement, leaving us with plenty of left over copper wire to play with! It was very easy to work with as I bent and twisted the pieces with a regular pair of old needle-nose pliers. I used a press to make them nice and flat do they wouldn't crinkle pages. 

maskHappy mother's day!

Bread Box Creation!

I literaly was able to do this for $0 out of pocket...thanks to plywood and paint kicking around!

 This old school lettering was so cute.

 I stole a couple of hinges from an old box i had...i can still use the box for decoration without hinges...

A tip on Eggs

Coffee Filter Wreath

My sister sent me a 'Pin' fit this fun craft the other day! It took me allot longer than I expected, but I'm happy with the results.

Here is the link to the tutorial I followed:

http://lovelycraftyhome.com/2012/01/30/the-coffee-filter-wreath/

I didn't have a foam wreath and I could handily buy one in the small town I live by, so I had to get creative with what I had. My hubby had some extra tubing lying around and I happened to have a few soup can lids to spare!  :)

The tubing was not going to work with hot glue very well so I hole-punched the taped part of each flower and used twist ties to attach them to the wreath.

I believe I used over 300 coffee filters! This wreath is almost all white filters that I painted, but I'm thinking I might do one for the fall and use BROWN coffee filters because they pick up the rich colour so nicely with a sort of earthy feel.