Mothers Day Cards

I try to make cards and gifts for people whenever I can. Sure it takes longer, and is more effort, but it's generally worth it in the end. Last year, I made cards like these for Mothers Day. Yes, I said cards. We send out six Mothers Day cards now - my mum, his mum, my step-mum, his step-mum, my gran and my nana. We've got a lot of mothering going on around here...

In the space below the ribbon, I put the name of who it was to with silver lettering stickers.

Hidden photo now on display

It was my Gran and Grandad's 60th wedding anniversary on 5th January 2012. I'd found a gorgeous picture of them on their wedding day, but it had been kept in a drawer all this time, rather than on display. I decided that this needed to be seen, not just put away again to be forgotten about, so I sneakily measured the photo while I was looking at it, by seeing how it compared to the length of my fingers.

Once I got home, I dug out my cross-stitching materials, and came up with a basic design. I even found some metallic thread to do the bigger hearts in. I found the actual frame in Tesco. I think it has a slightly vintage feel to it, and was perfect for the photo that it was going to contain.

They were both very surprised and thrilled with the frame when I gave it to them on their wedding anniversary. They had had no idea that I'd measured up the photo, but I think that they were happy that it now gets to be on display.

Here's the frame with the photo inside. I think you'll agree that this deserved to be out in the open.