I adore giving and receiving flowers, they make you feel special and brighten your home in an instant.

My mum always says that all she'd love is a bunch of daffodils and I love the idea of making up a little posy for her. If you've left it a little late to order your mother a bouquet for Mother's Day like these gorgeous ones I was sent last week, then why not use my printable floral wrap and get creative?! 

There are 4 to download and print at home. You can print them onto A4 paper and simply cut around the image.

To download click the links:

• MIXED FLORAL PINKS & PURLES
• BOOK PAGES
• LILLIES & ROSES
• PINK ROSES

Add a layer of the same sized tissue paper if you fancy and roll into a cone shape and secure with sticky tape. Then stuff to your heart's content!

Have a happy Mother's Day weekend everyone in the UK! We are all off for a mass family meal, meeting half way between us in a lovely little village. It's so lucky we can bring our mum and our in laws together and celebrate the challenge and rewards that are motherhood!

With life being so manic and hectic since we moved in September, I feel like my creative side has been a little stifled.

Faffing and fiddling with crafty bits and pieces has had to come second to work and getting the boys to school and pre school on time. For those with rising 4's, it's tough. You still haven't cracked it by Year 1. It's every day!

So I jumped at the chance to be part of this creative project with InPost and some of my favourite bloggers.

A chance to have complete freedom to craft a square of a quilt (Cue frantic searching of the garage for my sewing machine and then frantic searches for a replacement, amongst our new neighbours, on account of my pedal being in another box somewhere!) and to be part of a collective project.

Now, those of you who follow this blog will know my crafting skills do not extend to knitting or crocheting or really anything that involves a sewing machine. So staying true to me and my blog, I found photo fabric paper!!!

This paper is amazing! You can print anything you like onto washable fabric paper and just peel and stick! So I chose my most favourite photo, the one that I use for my blog business cards from a floristry shoot I was lucky enough to snap last year, and off I went.

To make a square take two pieces of material, cut to size, I used the previous squares as my guide, and sewed them together with a basic running stitch. I cut out my fabric photo print and stuck it to the fabric.

Simple! But I may have roped my mother in. A blogger's assistant extraordinaire! 

I felt a photo fabric print was perfectly fitting for my square and I was in awe of the other efforts. A sweet embroidered letter in it's own fabric envelope, a hand stitched nursery rhyme. So much talent in a little square.

I sent my leg of the #crafttheparcel onto Emma who blogs at My Little Three and Me. I used the InPost service, have you spotted their vans and lockers?

You know when you are pregnant and all you see are pregnant women? Well since I started this project all I spot are InPost vans! 

I am forever frustrated at the local Post Office being closed after midday and parcels end up being sent back, on account of my inability to manage full time working and parcel collections.

But InPost is different. You can have your parcel collected (Great news for those of us in the sticks!) and dropped off to a locker near your recipient. The collection process takes seconds. A touch screen takes you through the collection procedure and hey presto! A magic door opens to reveal your prize!

Ok, I may have got a little carried away and felt like Christmas had come early, oohing and awing over the locker door that magically opened! It took 68 seconds to collect my parcel on account of all the wonder!

So now I know, I can either send a parcel whilst browsing through the wonderful streets of Frome at the local Texaco, or I can send it from home to a locker. Brilliant! Snail mail just got a whole lot slicker!

This post was in collaboration with a creative project with InPost

I love collecting independent and interesting magazines. Magazines that you keep forever because every time you get a chance to flick through them, you see something new. 

When I feel in need of an injection of inspiration, I sit for 10 minutes with a stack of old magazines and instantly ideas start to flow.

So when I saw that Oh Comely were encouraging readers to join in their Perfect Strangers project I raced to sign up. 

What could be lovelier than a real, honest and true good deed?

A parcel, lovingly put together, for a complete stranger.

I was in.

I peeked into my local charity shops, found a few things from home, that I was saving for just such an occasion and bought a few nice bits.

£10 was the limit, but I think it was more about reading a little snippet about your swap partner and packaging up a kind parcel of goodies. Whether it cost £10, less, or a little more.

I loved searching for things in her favourite Autumn colours, digging through my tissue papers to find a burnt orange and a single feather from my craft box to complete the wrapping.

It seems everyone was as lucky as me. To enjoy receiving a parcel as much as we enjoyed putting it together. Just have a peek at #perfectstrangers.

I was truly spoilt with homemade gifts, little packages, thoughtful trinkets to treasure. 

When I opened the beautiful box I couldn't believe the coral and mint postcards. I have been searching for those colours everywhere to decorate our family dining room with and I was so touched that Claire had found them. Surely it wasn't just a coincidence?! 

From Claire, from a stranger.

How lovely. Thank you so much Claire. 

And Happy Thanksgiving to all my American readers, especially my brother and sister in law in New Jersey.

I feel thankful for the opportunity to be creative, share what I love with people I love. Knowing that you are reading means the world. I couldn't imagine life without blogging now.

Happy days everyone!

Watch out for the next #perfectstrangers project next year by following Oh Comely.