DISCLOSURE: Some of the links in this post contain affiliate links, which come at no cost to you. Know that I only promote products I personally use and stand behind. To learn more about my affiliates, please review my disclosure policy here. No doubt, like all other things this year, Mother's Day will be different. But one thing remains the same, moms and grandmas love handmade gifts! Tell the kids to get out their sketchbooks and draw a portrait of their favorite maternal person to create a DIY custom t-shirt featuring kid drawings! My girls love their grandma and love to draw pictures so I put two and two together so they could create a one-of-a-kind gift for her this Mother's Day! First, I asked them both to draw a picture of their grandma. Hailey did two drawings as she wasn't satisfied with her lack of curly hair in the first picture. Brielle also wrote the words "World's Greatest Grandma" on a separate paper. I then took a photo of both their drawings and traced it in illustrator in order to upload it as an SVG for my Cricut machine. I know there are other ways you upload a JPG image and convert it to an SVG file, but the graphic designer in me goes back to my roots so this is how I've ... Continue Reading...
Mommy’s Time Out Wine Printables
DISCLOSURE: Some of the links in this post contain affiliate links, which come at no cost to you. Know that I only promote products I personally use and stand behind. To learn more about my affiliates, please review my disclosure policy here. When looking for a unique gift when visiting a new mom, a hostess gift for a fellow mom friend or your own mom on Mother's Day, gift them a box of single serve wine bottles covered in the Mommy's Time Out Wine Printables. No doubt mom will love the message expressed on the back of the package and the concept of enjoying 4 glasses of wine and you’ll love the ease of using these printables for a full and complete gift! After becoming a mom for the first time and not having drank any alcohol in over 9 months, I knew my tolerance was VERY low. I also was breastfeeding at the time and didn’t want to waste too much of my liquid gold to too many pump and dump sessions. I welcomed these single serve mini wine bottles for the occasional weekend indulgence after a long week of mommying and made note to gift them to my bestie when she gave birth 8 months later. Now years later, I’ve updated my original design and gifted it to a mom friend who just welcomed her first son. ... Continue Reading...
7 Ways I’m a Bad Mom
Happy Mother's Day to all those mamas out there! While we are all working hard to be a good mom, sometimes things don’t exactly go as planned. Here is a short list of ways I’m a bad mom, which is obviously meant as a humorous way to look at this role as mom. You’ll see that this isn’t about mom shaming or placing doubt in my momming skills, it’s just a tongue and cheek declaration on the ways I may not stand up to the standards set for motherhood. I think some of you may enjoy the list: I tell white lies. The ice cream truck is literally called “the music truck” in our house. “We ran out of batteries” has come out of my mouth more than once for an annoying sounding toy. I throw out their handmade artwork. Yes I keep some things, mostly that includes handprints, but I can’t seriously keep EVERYTHING they ever produce with their bare hands, right? The trick is to do it on a day they’re in school and try to remember to throw the garbage bag out before they get home! Luckily my girls have Dory memories and never ask or look for the missing scribble. They don’t know you can actually take toys home from the store. As you see on our IG stories, we play with the same few toys every time we’re out Target but we’ve never ... Continue Reading...
