Father's day

No one ever said the life of a working single mom was easy.  That definitely was true this past weekend.  Lately it seems like we always have something going on.  And not that I needed anything more but I decided to hand make 4 different art gifts all starting Friday for Sunday.  And all while having a play date with the sweetest, most helpful 7 year old I know...

While I wasn't able to capture any pictures of the kids in action painting because I was too busy cleaning up the floors since Max refused to paint on the newspaper I put out and himself (he looked like a smurf when we were all done).  We ended up doing the canvases for father's/mother's day (since we were out of town for mother's day) painted with the pull off letters like the teacher gifts...

Then when the company left and Max went to bed I put together a picture of him modge podged onto the same size canvas and painted black around the edges for Max's daddy for fathers day.  I did learn my lesson however that when I do this project in the future I will do it with a matte photo rather than glossy but was still pretty pleased with the outcome...

And then I finished the night by spray painting a bunch of different miscellaneous items for future projects.  One of which I finished Saturday night and was my only project for me that weekend.  I used a cork board purchased at Walmart, took off the framing, spray painted it black, then took some fabric and used fabric glue to glue the fabric to the board on the back.  I just used clear push pins to hang my bracelets to it and what little collection of earrings I have since I don't have them pierced yet...

Then my last project was printing pictures from a shared Flickr site which I got for free for signing up at CVS's website for online photo processing (25 free prints) and putting them in a frame I got a Walmart with a poster board backing.  Another thing I would do differently next time would be use actually frame matting for the backing as it bothered me I had to use two pieces of poster board which left a line (although not terribly visible unless you are looking for it).  All in all though I was pleased with Dad's birthday present...

The weekend ended with a relaxing afternoon Sunday by my dad's pool with my most favorite two year old, my dad, stepmom, mom (yep, thats right), sister, and stepsister.  That warm fuzzy feeling I have had since is coutesy of the wonderful, caring, and giving people closest to me.