Happy Mother's Day to all the moms here on Steemit! Hope you each had an awesome day!
We have been celebrating mom this weekend here at our house and with some other family that lives in the area. A good mom is so important in peoples' lives and their development, and I am blessed to have a wife who is a fantastic mother to our kids and is very dedicated and loving to them.
One thing I have done for the last few years for my wife on Mother's Day is worked with the kids to make a special project for mom. I enjoy using my hands (though my skills are somewhat limited based on not too much experience) so we usually do something out of wood.
This year was no different - we made a wooden spoon for mom out of a block of wood and then did some wood burning to make it even more special. Here was the finished project:
It took us longer to make than I would have anticipated, but I do not have a formal workshop with lots of tools for specific things, so we used what we had as well as our muscles to cut, carve and sand the wood into a useable spoon. The spoon is fairly substantial and large, so I was joking that it is the only spoon in the city that could knock an intruder out cold or break a car window with ease! There are a few things I would do differently next time, such as not eyeball the design and actually measure a little, as the spoon is slightly lopsided - but hey, the imperfection just shows how much effort we put in right? Here are a couple of pictures of the progress:
Take care my friends,
Brian