projects with mom

My mom is here visiting for 12 days and we are in craft heaven!!! She wanted to show me how to make these really cool and beautiful pots and I wanted her to help me make a valance for my kitchen window with matching chair pads. So we have been busy...busy...busy! The pots are so much fun to make...except for the grouting...that's is definitely my least favorite part. Trey helped us and had a blast painting his pot...and most of the rocks in our back yard.
Trey did a great job on his pot. We made him change his clothes so he didn't get paint all over himself and guess what???Nana and mommy made the biggest mess! Trey didn't get a drop of paint on himself.And Talan just had a blast being outside with us!!! He has discovered that he can actually make noise when he claps his hands and he loves it! He also plays "SO BIG" and throws his hands up when you ask him "HOW BIG IS TALAN?"
Here are some of the finished pots (we did 7 total)...with some of the plants we have picked up at our outings with mom at some really cool placesThis is my favorite pot and my favorite plant...it's a desert rose.And the valance that mom pretty much made all by herself...because I am so busy doing jewelry ordersI absolutely LOVE it!!! Notice another pot in the window!
and these are the chair cushions that mom had finished yesterday when I got home from work. She's been a busy lady...and she is going to be exhausted when she gets home....thanks mom! What are we gonna do next???