For the first time I really thought about Mother's Day. I know how hard my mom works and I wanted to do something special for her, that she would actually use. Well ... she got her present last week while we were visiting, and I think I succeeded, at least she fooled me into thinking I succeeded.
I made her a picture board! It was so easy. She gets a lot of pictures from her 10 kids and 20+ grandkids. I know from experience how hard it is to keep your picture frames updated, or even hang them on the wall (especially for her). I think it is genetic, I hung up an empty frame on our wall (to make sure it would look good) and it stayed hung up
empty for about a year...and then we moved.
ANYWAY, back to the picture board. I took the pictures with my phone, so they are not the best quality.
I used a thick foam board and then put a layer of batting on the top. I found some dark blue material and just covered the front and wrapped it around to the back and then stapled...ALOT. I got the ribbon on sale from Hobby Lobby and just measured the width, and threaded every other one, and stapled it in the back.
Side note: You will use more ribbon than you think. I bought one spool that said 18 feet thinking it would be enough. I am obviously lacking some math smarts. I ended up using 4 - 18' spools.
Some of the picture boards have tacks or brads at all of the crosses, but I thought that was a little too much. So I did every other one. The only thing about the foam board is that the tacks don't stay very well. I used super glue to make sure they wouldn't fall off the fabric, but for this reason I would recommend using some hard board.
Part of the present to my mom was actually hanging it and putting the pictures on it for her. I know they aren't spaced very well...I was just throwing them on.
Totally easy, and totally awesome! I am going to have to make myself one now.
