Unique Ideas for a Special Mothers Day
Mother’s Day gifts can be extravagant while also being heartfelt and inexpensive. All it takes is a little planning and elbow grease to put together a memorable token she’ll treasure the rest of her days.
Those bags of out grown and forgotten children’s clothes gathering dust and taking up space in the garage or storage shed are a wonderful Mother’s Day gift waiting to be shaped. Pick out the most memorable pieces of the clothing and remove the seams with a stitch ripper. Cut each piece into uniformly large squares, at least four inches by four inches, with a pair of pinking shears and randomly sew the squares together with simple seams on your machine or by hand. Make the quilt top as large as you think she would like, although lap sized would hold enough memories for a joyful smile whenever she passes it. Once your top is done baste and sew your quilt; finish off with bias tape or rickrack and tacking with yarn or embroidery thread or quilting stitches by machine or hand.
If your mother has yet to become a grandmother; perhaps some memories from her own grandmother would warm her heart. Contact your own grandmother, great-grandmother, great aunts, cousins and other kinfolks and gather up those old family recipes that no one has bothered yet to write down. Don’t forget to type up those memorable stories they got side tracked with while relaying the recipe to you. Once those are printed out head to your local crafting store. Choose card stock and embellishments to match your mother’s personality, your family history, or cooking themed for your project. Don’t forget a scrap-booking album as well in the size you desire. Cut your recipes out and measure them. Cut your card stock a quarter inch larger on all sides than your recipe paper and attach. Attach the matted recipe to the card stock pages grouped by theme, ingredient or randomly. Embellish and add to the album. Not only have you given her a useful gift you have preserved family history and traditions that may have passed on with the relatives themselves by and by.
Or if you’re not of a creative mind and would rather give something special instead of a retail mega-store gift find out if your mother has a passion for something then why not find a local artisan that creates it? Locally made yarns for her knitting or crochet baskets, locally made soaps for her home spa treatments, hand crafted jewelry or even locally grown spices for her kitchen. Put out a net and see what you can find among the creative and crafty minds in your own backyard. Not only will she be pleasantly surprised you may be as well.
