My Mother's Day

Here it is almost a week after Mother's Day and I haven't posted yet. I have been so tired because Mother's Day weekend was so full of crafts and baking I was exhausted. Not to mention Kendall hasn't been sleeping through the night. But I had a wonderful mother's day and there's way too many pictures to add so I guess I am just going to have to make do. I still haven't figured out how to efficiently load pictures to my posts so I get a bit frustrated.

Here's me and my munchkin:

Anywho, in no particular order (because I am being lazy and don't feel like sorting):

These are the cards I helped Kendall make or her Grandmother and her GG (her Great Grandmother). She did the finger painting and I cut and matted them for cards. they loved them! Pics of Kendall finger painting are further down.

Next is a picture of me, a happy Mom. Really, Greg went all out for my first Mother's Day. I got breakfast in bed- French toast, eggs, turkey bacon and strawberries, I got a necklace that had a little girl pendant on it with her dress being Kendall's birthstone-peridot, I got to spend, spend, spend at Michaels, and I got a handmade T-shirt and card. More on those later.

Here is a picture of one of the cupcake bouquets that I made. i thought I'd try it and it seems to have come out okay.Next time I will use toothpicks only. I used lollipop skewers here and it worked but they ended up poking through. I also will use a dome shaped Styrofoam ball instead of the cube. There's also skittles in the vase. I think it looked okay, what do you think?

Here is the aftermath of Kenni's impromptu finger painting session. She had it everywhere within minutes including her mouth. But I had so much fun doing it with her but i looked a wreck so no pictures with Mommy!

Here's my precious...just a little artist. She is so adorable I can't believe i helped make that face! So beautiful she is. Okay enough mushing.

These are other cards that I made for other relatives. I also made some 60 cards for my fruity Mommas on BBC-Babycenter.com.

Close-up on my T-shirt. If it's unclear, I'm the Best Mom, Hands DOWN! :)

I let Greg borrow my Cricut to make me a card. Don't tell anyone but he had a blast! He was also begging me to use it finally so I gave him quick tutorial of everything I know (I'm still learning and it has been three months). Here's what he came up with.

Beautiful isn't it? Look at the 3D flower he made. Gorgeous. I call him Martin Stewart (I am Martha of course!)

Here is the inside. Do you see my necklace in there? That's how he surprised me with it. So cute he is. How did I get so lucky?

Here is the cake I made for myself. It was only one layer think and it was made with leftover icing and cake batter from the cupcakes. The frosting was a yucky burgundy color so I made it black with black icing color from Wilton. It was pretty easy but I admit i used the whole jar. Eh, it was worth it aestetically. The flowers are M&M's. This cake was so yummy. Yellow cake with chocolate frosting.

And here is the other cupcake bouquet I made. It was for Greg's Mother. Her birthday was the 11th so I also made her a coconut custard pie which for my first time making it was delish!i think this one came out better than the first and I used the toothpicks with the dome shaped Styrofoam ball. made a huge difference not only in presentation but in overall ease of assembly.

And just because I am proud of them here are the cards I made for my Fruities

It took me roughly 10 hours to complete them all. These cards went from Cali to New York and Canada to Florida. All the thanks I got from making them made me feel so good. Some of them said that it was the only card they had gotten and that made me feel real good that I can make them smile like that.

I mean who doesn't like getting something handmade with love?