Don’t let Sunday pass you by without either showing gratitude and appreciation to your mom, or accepting the love and gifts your family offers you as a mom.
This Sunday is a day set aside to honor moms for all that they do everyday. Whether you are a mom or you’re celebrating your mom, don’t let this weekend go by without making sure Sunday is as full of love and gratitude as possible. In order to create lasting memories, start planning your weekend with mom now. Plenty of opportunities are available locally, planned or unplanned, allowing you fun without the cost of gas. Check out this list and decide what best fits your schedule and tastes. Free Bowling Go bowling! If mom is the sporty type, she’ll love that moms eat and bowl free at Morgan's Thunderbowl in Mokena on Sunday. Gather the family for a game or two of strikes and spares, and then reward your high scores with free grub. If your …
Artist Patty McWilliams uses a wrap technique to help mothers-to-be keep their baby bellies forever.
It’s no surprise that Patty McWilliams doesn’t just own the Monkey Mind Art Studio and Gallery in Frankfort. She’s also an artist who continues to practice what she teaches. McWilliams’ undergraduate work was in sculpture, using a variety of media—clay, plaster and plaster wrap. Little did she know at the time that one day she’d be using the plaster wrap technique for more than mask-making. McWilliams said she’d been teaching out of her home studio and making masks with kids when she got the idea to wrap her pregnant nieces’ bellies. “It was just for fun and for family members,” she said. Shortly after McWilliams opened Monkey Mind in October 2010, fellow Frankfort Chamber of Commerce member Lori Dunkman, owner of The Belly Factory, called…
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Krista
10:49 am on Monday, April 11, 2011
Absolute beauty!!! more ›