Happy Mother's Day...

There is a certain amount of loneliness that comes with having your husband gone for a long time. Overall, you tend to get used to it, but there are times when it's definitely harder than others. Right now is one of those times. I think that it's because there is an end in sight (another 5 weeks to go). I want him to be here now, but it's the little things that help...email is definitely one of them. I only talk to DH once a week for about 30 minutes and that call has the international delay which makes relaxed discussion difficult because you tend to be talking over each other. Another thing that makes it easier is wonderful surprises like these that showed up on my doorstep on Friday....

DH is traditionally awful about doing anything for Mother's Day and the fact that he thought about it while in Iraq, well let's just say that I definitely cried.

The other thing that makes it easier is that my mom is coming to visit today. I pick her up from the airport in 6 hours and I cannot wait!!! My mom and I are very close and it's very rare that I get to actually spend mother's day with her since we normally are so far away. It makes it extra special when I can.

I took a bit of time off from my cleaning yesterday to create a little something up to go with her mother's day gift. The tin is full of little candy bars that have been decorated using the Little Label 2 Kit from Unity.

I talked about the Autumn Leaves calendar page from Friday. This tag was totally inspired from that page. I used the background stamp, TeaTime Pattern, from Unity to make the red medalion. The "M" stamped on top of it is a stamp from Great Impressions. I don't know if you can quite make it out in these photos, but there is a little bit of detail work colored in using my white sharpie on the scroll work around the M. The flowers are also done from the Little Labels 2 kit...first I stamped the circle from that set and then punched it using my flower punch. There is a label in that kit that has flowers in it made from the graduated circles...for my flower centers, I punched those out using a small circle punch...added a brad and a drawn stem, and they were done.

I hope that you all have a fantastic mother's day today....and remember, you deserve a bit of spoiling. If someone else doesn't do it for you, then do it for yourself...you've earned it!

smiles,

Christi