The best Mother’s Day gift
Posted by Mayve on May 12, 2009
Did you all have a wonderful Mother’s Day? I did! Not because I’ve been a mommy for three years now, but because I had the pleasure of giving MY mom something that showed her how much she is loved by her daughter.
Every first Friday of the month, the West Phoenix HM gang hosts a DIGI-Crop at Fire & Friends Z Art Studio and for April we designed 12×12 or 8×8 sheets to decoupage to a tile. (Doesn’t sound like much but they look fabulous, trust me.) The sheets came in well before the workshop and I took my client to pick out some tiles that would compliment his sheet desgins. Then, we used May’s DIGI Crop time to “Modge-Podge” the sheets to the tiles and let them dry.
Well, the Mother’s Day Tiles turned out AWESOME! Check it out. This is one I made for my mom “from Haylee.” The wording in the middle says, “When a child is born, so are grandmothers” It’s one of the many quotes found in the Studio library.
- Mother’s Day Tile from Haylee
And here is the one I made from me…
The tile I made for my mom
I put them on the dining room table in the iron stands pictured and put a bouquet of pink roses in a vase between them the night before knowing that she would be up early on Mother’s Day and would see them. What I DIDN’T expect was for her to start crying.
I had gotten my mom cool stuff from fancy kitchen gadgets (she LOVES the Food Network) to jewelry and stationery but this simple item – that doesn’t have buttons or switches or smell nice – brought mom to tears!
See, my mom was one tough cookie. She spent her youth keeping up with her three brothers and multitude of cousins who loved camping and fishing. Even in my youth, I watched her as she never hesitated to climb trees to get the best fruit. She scaled steep drop offs and hills to get to the best (and often hard to get to) fishing spots then going out to the farthest rock on the beach. As you can see from the pictures, we were pretty close and some of the best memories I have of her are when she used to pick me up from work for lunch and we’d just talk story and hang out at the beach behind my work. We laughed joked, gossiped and when I left for college, she wrote me practically every day. When her health started to deteriorate, it was hard… but even so, I rarely saw her cry…
We don’t do much the things we used to do together anymore, more than not it’s because she is too weak. I miss her spunk and energy. But most of all, I miss her.
And when I found the graphic embellishment above that said “A Girl’s Best Friend is her MOTHER” it was the perfect touch. I couldn’t believe something so simple and from the heart touched her so deeply. It is, by far, the best gift I ever gave her…
(At least , until I finish her book! ;o) )
