Hoppy Easter Everybunny

He has risen!  I do hope you are enjoying your Easter, it is beautiful and sunny here and our turkey is already cooking.  Shortly I'll be making my all time favorite non-chocolate food: Aunt Bettie's Potatoes.  I'd make them everyday if didn't use so much cream (which is what makes them so darn yummy!).

Being the slacker mom that I am, we dyed our Easter eggs today.  I learned long ago not to have real eggs as a part of the egg hunt, so dying the eggs is really just for the fun.  Thanks to Robin over at The T-Shirt Diaries, I didn't have to worry about spending money on those dye tablets.  The kids colored the eggs with crayons first and then we dipped them in the dye.  Don't they look pretty?

Peace be with you,

Easter Decorations

Easter is less than a week away.  The kids are on Spring Break here and this year we will be home.   When the girls got home from school on Friday, we decided to make a few decorations, stashbusting style!  Nothing we did is new to blogland, most of what we did is copied from something we've seen but we had fun and I promised the girls I would show it off.  (I'd give credit, but many people out there have their own versions, it would take forever to go back and find all the sites I've seen similar things on!)

Here's what we used that was all on hand:  Mini and regular sized Styrofoam eggs, fabric strips, glass jars, old book pages, yarn, mod podge and glass candle holders.  I did buy blue spray paint, but I needed it to finish two other projects, so the $2.50 the mini can cost was well worth it.  Some of the supplies I had bought shortly before stashbusting began, and of course didn't get to the project until now, but it's out of my stash!

Take a peek:

The girls had a lot of fun making the book page eggs, we have about 20 of them!  To make it easier on them, I had them wet the paper and then paint mod podge over top.  I did smooth them a bit before they were dried.  I should go back and put another coat or two on them, but I probably will just find another project to do instead!

Sorry, the egg in the middle was something I picked up on clearance a few years ago, but it would be really easy to make if it hadn't been about 50cents!  I just liked the way it looks with the mini egg tree and the rolled rosette tree.  What doesn't show up in the picture is that we covered the tree with a course yarn about the same color as the nest on the large egg.  I did it that way to coordinate the three pieces together

Peace be with you,