I know that I have written a post or two, and even a few facebook status updates about my Mom. If you haven’t caught on yet, she’s my absolute Best Friend. With Mother’s Day just around the corner I decided to celebrate my Mom with a Mother & Daughter Picnic Date with World Market. I knew right away that we would go to a park for our picnic, because even on a Mother & Daughter picnic date it wouldn’t be any fun if her grandkids weren’t involved.
One of the things I love most about my Mom – Lauretta, is her commitment to our family. She became a single mother when I was almost 9 years old, my brother was 7. Putting herself through nursing school to provide for my brother & I. She worked tirelessly to give us opportunities, to bless us in ways I didn’t yet understand until I became a Mother. She is humble, and gracious in so many ways. Since the day she became a Grandma she has savored every moment with her grandsons. One thing we do often when the weather is nice is picnics at the park, that way we are all together as a family and she gets to watch the boys play and have fun. I love that we are so blessed to spend so much time with her and that our boys get to have such a fabulous Grandma in their lives.
In preparation for our picnic date I quickly headed over to one of my favorite stores World Market to get shopping for this special lunch. I wanted it have some special touches, and I knew I’d find some great things at World Market…and boy was I right. There are so many fun, bold, and bright colors this time of year in the store that are perfect for a picnic. Check out some of the fun stuff I fell in love with while shopping from my Instagram account.
These chevron tumblers would make a great gift! And look more chevron, they had cloth napkins – placemats – chair covers – and more. Love it all.
All this enamel dipped silverware was calling my name.
Check out these oilcloth tablecloths, they had a couple different patterns to choose from. Gone are the days of ugly vinyl tablecloths, get one of these pretty things to put on your outdoor table.
What really caught my eye were these chevron paper napkins. I knew as soon as I saw them they would be the center of my picnic table. My Mom loves bright colors so these really made me think of her. I worked around the colors of these napkins, a dark teal blue – yellow – and a beautiful reddish orange.
Here are all the great items I found for our picnic at the park. Vintage inspired Striped Paper Straws, a great Yellow Bowl for a pasta salad, Wooden Spoons, Wicker Plate Chargers in a dark teal blue color to match, small Yellow Take-out Boxes, and Bottled Italian Sodas in Blood Orange & Orange Passion Mango flavors.
I let my Mom decide what she’d like for lunch on our special picnic date and she chose to bbq hot dogs with the boys. So I made some pasta salad as our side. I painted the two wooden spoons I bought with matching dark teal blue stripes.
I simply placed a fabric-like disposable tablecloth I found that matched on the picnic table. I knew I would want a centerpiece to pull everything together and give it a nice punch of color. So I grabbed some coffee filters and created some flowers. Once I made the flowers I just dipped them in some water I had tinted with red food coloring, the coffee filters absorbed it immediately and I just let them dry. Once they were dry I fluffed them a bit. I found a few tin cans I had lying around the house and got my trusty washi tape out in a coordinating color and just added some to the cans.
I knew that the small yellow to-go boxes would be perfect for a treat and the boxes would add some more color to the table. So I baked up some chocolate chip cookies and placed them inside the boxes, and added some washi tape.
I tied some simple turquoise yarn to the bottles of Italian sodas that we had, they were so good!
We had a great day and what’s most important…we were all together, and she loves that. Can’t forget to mention that my 94 year old Grandma is also a part of these picnic traditions.
Photo courtesy of my 9 year old son Corbyn, sorry if it’s blurry. I love this lady & I’m so thankful that I can celebrate her! She deserves it!
I hope you’ll think of World Market when shopping for Mother’s Day gifts this year. They have such a great selection of gift ideas from picnic & dining, jewelry & accessories, or just something special for the home…you will definitely fall in love with something while you are there.
Another thing I love about World Market is the My Amazing Mom Sweepstakes they are currently running.
What a great gift to give your Mom!
There are three ways you can participate:
– Nominate your mother for a chance to win $5k
– Browse the gallery and vote for your favorite submission
– Enter to win the Fan Sweepstakes for a chance to win one of 10 – $500 World Market Gift Cards
Enter the My Amazing Mom Sweepstakes HERE!
Be sure you don’t miss a thing from World Market!
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What a fun time for all of you and I think I now need to go take a trip to World Market!
How absolutely wonderful and beautiful is that… Love all your great finds at the World Market!! Such a Sweet way to spend quality time 😉
xo
Angelina
Looks like you found some great items! I love the World Market italian sodas too. The limencello ones are my favorite!!
Danielle at Framed Frosting
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What fun! Your use of color is so cheery, too!
I love what you did to those wooden spoons! It all looks so fun, I’m glad you had a great time!
Looks like you guys had a great picnic!
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