My mothers day project

I want to start this post by saying if you are my: mother, step-mother or mother-in-law and are reading this prior to Mother's day please don't read any further!  

And now that I have that out of the way I wanted to share my idea for Mother's day before the weekend just in case you wanted to do something similar for the wonderful mothers in you life.  

I also wanted to just say that I had a WONDERFUL weekend, I had a chance to spend time with two of my favorite friends, I spend a little time forgetting that I am moving and had fun bargain shopping and crafting---perfect combination if you ask me!!!

Here is what I came up with:

{little plant stakes with dictionary wording and pronunciation}

{I am so so so in love with lavender right now, did you know that the entire plant smells divine not just the flowers?  I am crazy about the look and the smell of these so my wonderful mothers will be getting lovely, heavenly lavender this year!}

Here is how I made the stakes:

I mod podge-ed small wood plaques I picked up at Michael's for .29 cents each, of course I used my encyclopedia paper as the background.  (It wouldn't be a project if I didn't use encyclopedia paper).

I just added the label holder with hot glue.

My favorite crafty friend Becks was over so she made a pile too!

And I wanted to share my second project I worked on last night, I found and refinished my first piece of furniture for the garage sale season!

Check out the chair I found for free on the side of the road, pre-clean up---I see nothing but potential!!!! 

Here she is all sanded up, the naked wood was so pretty I had to force myself to paint her.....and trust me there was a LOT of painters remorse going on while I was doing so!

So on to the finished products:

{a simple but cute project}

{The lavender I am obsessed with *heart*}

{okay I am asking for honest opinions on the chair----should I distress more or add a color?!?!? hummmmmm}

{oooh and before I forget here is Beck's version-----I would love to see yours!}

I am linking up here.