Mom

I went in to Smash Salvage on Dundas the other day after getting groceries (it is so close I can almost never resist!).  For those of you in Toronto, Smash is a fabulous store full of, well, salvaged goods!  They have everything from school desks to window grills, to piano crates and industrial lighting.  Very, very cool stuff.  Check out their flickr page to see the kinds of things they have at the moment - that is where I got this above shot.  When I was there, they had a whole bunch of these brass letter stencils put together in fun words.  While I was tempted by JERK (story of my life... kidding!), I was drawn to MOM - I wonder why? :)

So this little guy came home with me.  I had it just sitting on the mantel, but I felt like it wasn't really visible or readable enough, so when both kids were miraculously napping at the same time the other day, I dug out my bag of Japanese paper scraps and an old Ikea frame, and made this:

It's kind of fun, no?  It makes me smile, anyway.  I guess I just made myself my mother's day present!