Mother's Day Finds: Etsy

I just realized that Mother's Day is only a mere 3 weeks away! What! I am really bad at keeping up with holidays that are at the beginning of the month. So I decided that each week I will come up with some great gifts for Mom that you can buy and some great gifts that you can make yourself. 

First off, one of the best places (in my opinion) for gifts, Etsy!

To buy: 

Moon Necklace. (My personal fav!) Chevron Bracelet. T-shirt.

Tote Bag. Bird Necklace. Shoe Clips.

To Buy:

Tea Towel. Art Print. (My fav!) Jewelry Dish.

Coaster Set. Wall Sign. Wall Hanging. 

Wooden Flowers. Tote Bag. Tissue Cozy.

IPhone Case. (my fav!) Canary Planter. Bicycle Notecards.

Simple Toddler Craft

 Sydney is really into making crafts lately and she insisted on doing some crafting the other day so I decided to go the simple route and have her make this cute little tree.

 I grabbed a few supplies...scissors, 2 punch out shapes (flower & leaf), a pencil, a glue stick and some construction paper.

 I started by cutting out the tree shape and she helped me punch out the leaves and flowers from orange and red construction paper.

 She then began to glue the leaves and flowers to the tree while I cut out the tree trunk.

 We finished by gluing the tree to the trunk and adding a little owl hole. 

Simple, easy and she loved the punching and gluing.

Little Pisces....

Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. When I was little my Mom always handmade all of my costumes and it's really important to me to make all of Sydney's too. This is her costume from last year. Obviously, she's a mermaid! I have a slight obsession with mermaids and since she is a Pisces, I thought it would be perfect for her 1st Halloween.

The top is a onesie that I cut purple shells out of felt and hand stitched them on.

For the tail, I cut a template out of a large piece of dark green felt. I then hand cut out all of the tiny scallops from various shades of blue, green and white felt. I used a heavier sparkly green felt for the bottom of the tail. I then glued all of the scallops on the template in a varying pattern. Instead of making the tail go all the way around (since she couldn't walk then), I just used a strip of Velcro to attach the tail to a pair of green shorts. (I had to use shorts since it was still in the 90's in October last year!) That way she could still move her legs around and it was easy to get on and off.

Lastly, I cut a star out of white and purple felt and glued them to a hair-clip.

I am in the process of making her costume for this year. It's from one of my favorite movies (that was a book first) and I was enamored with this character all of my childhood. I'll give you a few hints: braids, gingham, ruby red.