A little late in coming....

This may be a little late in coming, but I thought I would post some pics on the 'Mother's Day' gifts that I came up with for our mommies on their special day. I stressed about this, because a) I wanted to do something special/thoughtful for the both of them b/c they do so much for us and b) I needed something inexpensive because money is not growing on trees at our house. I saw an awesome flower arrangement while I was traveling in Columbus that seemed so simple even I could do it, which inspired me to do this:





This little project consisted of a nice, thick and inexpensive vase at Wal-Mart that is about 4" tall, some river rock and a gerber daisy. Put it all together and what do you got? A simple, elegant and easy gift. As of yesterday, the gerbers are still living which makes me even happier. I paired each with a special photo book of pictures of their grandson, hand tied with chocolate organza ribbon and a sweet card letting them know how much we appreciate them. All in all, each gift total costs about $15 (vases, river rocks, flowers, cardstock, and ribbon) and a little bit of time to put together the books on photoshop. The end result = priceless!






(oh ~ the fact that each flower matched each book cover...that's just a little something I like to call 'perfection!')