Sunflowers & Skates Mother's Day Party

 

Hey guys, one (?) more post for today! For this past Mother's Day, after much brainstorming and struggling to come up with a theme, I decided to combine my mother's favorite flower (sunflowers) with a favorite hobby of hers (ice skating, which I wanted to be part of the gift). I call the theme "Sunflowers & Skates", as the title says. 

On the poster I painted, I wrote "Happy Mother's Day to the coolest mom!" I used Dollar Tree sunflowers in the balloon arch. The dishes, vines, large vase of flowers, and such were things I had on hand. I got the mini teacher notebooks and cookies were from Walmart. The sunflower seeds and balloon came from Dollar Tree. I designed labels on Canva for the sunflower seeds that read "I couldn't have been raised by a better mother! Thank you for rooting for me and helping me grow!" (But I accidentally printed them too big and the sunflowers on them got cut off). The felt was from Walmart. To make the banner, I printed ice skate and sunflower graphics from Canva, cut them out, and hot glued them to felt triangles on yarn. 

Thank you for visiting! 

-Lauryn 

Colorful, Modern Boho Mother's Day Party (2023)

 

Good morning, happy Wednesday! This event and long past relevant, but maybe this theme can be applied to summer events. This year for Mother's Day I did a colorful, boho theme with a mainly complimentary color palette featuring bright blues, orange, yellow, gold and brown. I struggled to come up with a theme and actually choose these colors and this theme when I was inspired by a design on a tee shirt from my church (which had the same font as the calligraphy on my 'Best Mom' sign below). For favors, I used car scent candles and tea bags. The flower balloons (which you may recognize from my past parties, I've re-used them a lot this year) were from Walmart and were around $3 for four, I think. 

Instead of sharing it as a separate post, I went ahead and included a quick Mother's Day gift idea below since it had matched the party. The pictures are pretty self-explanatory and these types of basket fillers might be helpful for birthdays, too. I got the lama/alpaca succulent planter from Ingles, the stickers came from a bulk teacher set I bought on Amazon, and everything else from Dollar General. 

I hope you enjoyed this post, and look forward to sharing more content soon! 

-Lauryn 

Bird-Themed Mother's Day Party

Hey guys! Today I'd like to share the Mother's Day party that took place last week (on Mother's Day, of course), which I themed around birds. I was going to do a natural, floral theme but there were no edible flowers and that is one of many themes that is kind of overdone. I wanted a unique theme and decided on birds because to my mother (and grandmother) cardinals are very important and my mother loves birds so long as they aren't stealing food from our garden. Also, that was the theme of their gifts. I made a wooden cardinal-inspired sculpture for my mother that I used as decor in this party, and I made bird maganets as party favors. I got the beautiful, free-printable banner from this link. I made (failed) pumpkin scones and mocha protein bars (that were also a fail). My brother set the table, made the placecards and did the enitre tablescape in addition to the paper signs hanging up.

Hopefully this gives you a unique party theme for moms or anyone, really, or ideas for any
bird-lovers in your life. I hope you enjoyed!

-Lauryn