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Strapped for time and lacking a card for mum? Never fear,  with these easy Mother’s Day cards that you can whip up on no time with a few papercraft basics!

1. Take one large and one small pale pink foam heart, position them both at angles and glue in place.

2. Using our photo as a guide, lightly draw the long necks, head and beak of the flamingos, then draw the legs.

3. Once you are happy with how they look, go over the pencil outline with a black fine line pen. Rub out any pencil marks, then shade in with pink colouring pencil.

4. Pick up the ‘I’ letter stamp, press it into the ink pad then onto a scrap piece of paper first to practice. Once you are happy with the amount of pressure the stamp needs, start stamping ‘I LOOK UP TO YOU’ just below the baby flamingo. And stamping ‘MUM’ just above.

5. Use the black fine line pen to draw three dots after ‘MUM’ and a small heart at the end of the message.

6. Cut a strip of pink glitter lace tape slightly longer than the width of the card and stick in place. Either trim the edges or fold the tape round to the back.

I just did a small project that has made me SOOOOOO happy, you guys.  I organized my pantry.  Yes, I have an organized pantry.  I even surprise myself with how organized I’m becoming because historically I have NOT been organized at all.  But since doing little projects here and there to get organized I’ve discovered how happy it makes me and how incredibly nice it makes my life.  Look at how this turned out.

Here is a before picture so you can get the full effect :

And here it is now :

Yay for organization! Here’s the thing…this project rated like a 2 on my difficult project scale, with 10 being the hardest.  So it was actually a really easy project and I’ve broken down the process in 10 simple steps.

Here’s how you organize you pantry:

Make a list of everything that is in your pantry.

Decide how to group things.

Decide what kinds of containers would be best for each group or item.  Get a few different kinds of containers.  I used baskets, sealing plastic containers, glass jars, metal wire baskets, and lazy Susans.

Purchase those containers.

Purchase cute chalkboard sticker labels and a chalk pen.

Clean out the pantry (this is the hardest part) by removing everything and wiping down shelves, throwing away old gross stuff and getting rid of food you aren’t going to eat.

Put all the remaining food in your new containers that you’ve pre-washed

Put the new labels on the containers and label them accordingly (I do this after because sometimes you have to try a couple different containers to get it right.)

Put them back on the shelves in an order than makes sense and makes it easy to access, rearranging a few times if you need in order to find the best spots for everything.

Enjoy your clean and organized pantry!

We know you got your lovely #plants at home !! Don't forget to design their name #labels on pots——A good way to teach your #kids !!

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