MOTHER'S DAY.

Presents.

I don't usually put a lot of effort into presents, on mothers/fathers day, usually a card and some chocolate, maybe a piece of soap. However, for some reason (Procrastination probably) I decided to put some effort into this mothers day.

Step one:

First of all I decided to make her a card, so I cut out a cute little heart (pretty rough to start out, no template) and then smooth the edges out by cutting around it, keeping them connected I planned for the card to open on a fold.

Step 2 (The accidental step)

                                                                                                             Of course that went wrong and I managed slicing the fold that connected the two parts of the card. Typical, so I had to work out a new way to connect the two pieces. 

My first thought was obviously cellotape, because really, what can't that solve! But alas, no such luck. For we had none, and I realised it wouldn't look great anyway..

But the I got the simply BRILLIANT idea of SEWING.

Wow, yeah because actually, I can't sew. 

But screw it, I thought it would look cute so whatever, apparently my determination is pretty strong when it wants to bloody be. But here is where I ran into my next problem. As well as celotape, we had no needle. Plenty of thread, but not a needle in sight! Crimany.

I did however for some odd reason, have a bit of metal wire, rather flexible, and a bunch of cocktail sticks (Which actually proved to be useless after all) and proceeded to create holes all down the edges of the bits of card the traditional way. Painstakingly. It was terrid.

terrid |ˈterə-rid| adjective a mix between horrid and terrible.

Step three motherfudgerrrr.

Now for the ICING OF THE CAKE YEAH.

I wanted to do something cute and flowery for mothers day, and also something to go with her present (I'll show you that in a minute) so I wanted to make some tissue paper flowers, as I had a lot of tissue paper. My first couple of attempts at the flowers were unsuccessful.

I then found a shape I was fond of. You should not it's not either of these, I'm pretty bad at photographing evidence of progress, I mostly take photos of my failure, I'm such a matyr.


Anyhow, I finally got a good shape and found out there was no glue in the house.

For those not keeping track that is:

• No cellotape
• No glue
• No needle
• No good pictures of progress.

It's disaster night over here!

I used blu tac. Which does the job but is super tempermental. 

My mum better love this.

Step four. 

decorationnnnnnn

This is the insideeeeee

Now for the present STEP Fuh fuh fuh FIVE.

I got my mum a pretty little rose from this website:

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/bookish/product/literary-paper-rose

CUTE RIGHT, YEAH.

I think it's pretty adorable.

Anyway, I hope these instructions help you make a wonderful homemade mothers day for your dear old mums. If that fails there's always breakfast in bed. Or petrol station roses?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               ...                                                                                                                   Good luck sons and daughters.                

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Happy mothers day mummy, and happy reading butterballs.