Crafters- What are you making???

[Zookeeper9000]

Monica my Mom will be gone 10 years this August 5th and I still buy her presents for everything. I just make it a plant for the garden or a item to put in the garden. She would love it and it keeps her with me.

You do what you need to do for your Mom whether she is here or just looking in. Hang in there Hunny it doesn't get better but it gets different.

 

[wegotchickens]

Monica, I brought baseball caps for Daddy for a year after he died and hung them on the coat tree where he had all his others.
Do something for your mother!

 

[cknmom]

Thank you, DH says I'm wallowing in my grief and my DS says that our mom is mad because I am having such a hard time with her passing and crying so much. I am soo confused. I don't know if I should just bury my emotions to make everyone else feel better, or just deal with this how I need to for myself.
I think the garden idea is great, she LOVED flowers and plants!
Monica

 

[Krysstyllanthrox]

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Every person processes grief different. Some can shrug it off seemingly easy. Some grieve for a very long time. It has been about 5.5 years since I lost my Pawpaw, I can still cry and sob if I think about it. Every year I try to plant tomatoes in his memory, even though I don't eat the things raw.

I say make something for her and set it aside. Have a little memory chest. do what makes you feel better.

 

[CoyoteMagic]

What if you make something for your mom and donate it to a lovely lady at a senior center or abuse shelter in your mother's name.

I donate to toys for tot's every year in memory of my brother who loved to make Christmas special for everyone. My mom raises money for the fire dept that he was a volunteer fire fighter.

I also have a "Memory Garden" where I've planted flowers in memory of those who have passed. Fire Flower for my brother, Mexican Shellflower for a grandmother and a weeping pussywillow for another.

Do what you need to do for YOU to grieve for your mom.

 

[cknmom]

Thankyou all for your thoughts and ideas
I will do some of them.

It will be a while before I can start making anything as I am still sorting through her things.

Monica

 

[Scrambled Egg]

Monica ---

 

[NanaKat]

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Have you thought of holding something of your mother closer to you? I made a lap quilt from cotton clothing that was my mother's. Each of the grandchilden have one now also. When I have those days when i miss her terribly, I wrap up in that quilt...and it eases my sense of loss.

 

[no chicks here]

chknmom, you do what you need to, to grieve.
there is a lot of good ideas to help.

 

[Scrambled Egg]

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Have you thought of holding something of your mother closer to you? I made a lap quilt from cotton clothing that was my mother's. Each of the grandchilden have one now also. When I have those days when i miss her terribly, I wrap up in that quilt...and it eases my sense of loss.

Really good idea! I have a friend that just did that with her recently deceased husband's shirts..very helpful