Since I am a terrible daughter, I just sent my mom her Mother’s Day gift last Friday.
I mean, I CALLED her on Mother’s Day. What else can a sweet, loving woman who worked hard to raise three kids to be productive, grateful, thoughtful, non-selfish members of society (all while getting a Master’s degree) expect?
Apparently, not much.
- She hates tattoos so it’s not like she’d appreciate something like this. So what else is a girl to do? My (untatted) arm is twisted here.
All of my horrible neglect aside, I’ve known for quite a while what I wanted to make for her: A Teacher’s Survival Kit.
I filled it with some things she likes and attached little handmade tags explaining how each item will help her. Luckily she’s got one week left of school so I hope she can put this stuff to good use.
Here are some photos of the little kit I made for my mom (clicking the pic makes it bigger!):
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- ‘STOP TALKING’ business cards.
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- All packaged up in little red envelopes.
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- The cards along with some lotion. The tag on the lotion says, “To help soften your hands after a hard day of slapping sass mouths.”
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- I put the lotion and cards into a Wonder Woman lunchbox. I think it’s pretty obvious why that’s relevant to my mother.
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- I also got her a mug and some tea.
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- Mug with tea all wrapped up.
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- I figured that some days might call for a “liquid lunch.”
One of my favorite things were the ‘STOP TALKING’ business cards that I made. Unfortunately, I didn’t think up the idea on my own. I know, total sadface. In fact, I found them at Paper Source (you can see them here), but I thought it was ridiculous to pay $10 for 25 cards (see, my mama raised me right). So I made them myself.
I changed the font and packaging because I wanted to do something a little different, but they’re printed on heavy cardstock so they’re really sturdy. They were a lot of fun to make so, if anyone wants cards with some kind of command on them, I’ll gladly sell you 30 for $5. Just got to my contact page and shoot me a message.
Heck, shoot me a message just because. I love to hear from people.