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26
Mar
2014

Toddler School: Make an Easy Easter Egg Garland with Your Child

categories: crafts, decorating, frugal, kids, play, toddler school, tutorial

The Bear and I love a good project. This little Easter Egg Garland was a really fun one to create with him, and gave him lots of great fine motor skill practice. Stringing objects is part of his upcoming skills check with our pediatrician’s ages and stages questionnaire, so we’ve been working on it together. I thought making an egg garland would be great practice and give us a festive decoration for our mantle at the same time. He is so proud of his creation, as you can see above. His two year old attention span couldn’t handle making the whole thing in one day, so we worked on it bit by bit over several days.

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06
Mar
2013

Let’s Make an Easter Basket – A Tutorial

categories: crafts, handmade, holiday, kids, tutorial

I love the joy of Easter and the new life it brings. You can read some of my other Easter posts here. Last year I looked long and hard to find the perfect Easter basket for the Bear, but all the options I loved were too pricey. I had paint and ribbon on hand and decided to make a frugal, durable, cute Easter basket. I purchased a peck size basket at Hobby Lobby for about $4. Here’s a crappy image of a peck basket from Amazon so you can see what it looked like before. I totally forgot to take before pics.

I painted the basket using Rustoleum Painter’s Touch Satin in Heritage White and a sponge brush. It took two coats to really cover the wood.

I used my glue gun to line the inside and outside with satin ribbon leftover from our wedding. Yes, we’ve been married almost 5 years. Yes, I probably over bought on wedding ribbon. Oh well. The ribbon serves two purposes. It looks super cute and covers up the rough edges and staples that hold the peck basket together.

I tied satin ribbon into bows on each handle and glued them in place. I’m sure these will have to be replaced someday but they are holding up well so far.

I painted the Bear’s name onto the basket using a navy blue paint pen. I am not skilled in the handwriting department so it took a few tries and a few wipe off/repaints. I finally went with dot letters because they are very forgiving and look super cute. I highly recommend this method if you struggle with paint pen writing like I do.

We use ribbon as Easter grass after seeing the idea on Young House Love and not wanting to find the plastic stuff everywhere. My dad hates the plastic Easter grass with a passion (4 kids = a ton of Easter grass clean up over the years) and loves this idea. I used two rolls of green ribbon from the dollar store and just unrolled them completely and put them in the basket. The clean up is incredibly easy. You just pick up each long piece of ribbon and throw it back into the basket. We’ve made a game out of tossing the ribbon and eggs back into the basket after Bear inevitably dumps them out.

The Bear loves his basket even more this year. He has carried it all over the house and loves playing with the ribbon and plastic eggs.

What’s your favorite Easter candy?

I’m obsessed with Cadbury eggs.

08
Apr
2012

Happy Easter from our Little Bunny!

categories: family, holiday

We hope the joy of Easter fills your hearts and minds this morning as we celebrate the risen Christ.

05
Apr
2012

Decorating an Easter Mantle

categories: crafts, decorating, frugal

Spring is here and Easter is one of my favorite holidays.

Ok, I say that about all the holidays.

But seriously, Easter is my favorite.

I love that it represents the risen Jesus and the hope of new life.

To decorate our mantle, I took inspiration from Pinterest and used lots of items found around our house. The cute sign I bought on sale last summer at my favorite shop in Little Rock, The Full Moon. They have an assortment of fabulous things that is ever changing, and they have really great sales a couple of times each year. I even registered there for my wedding.

The bunnies were inspired by a few Pinterest finds like this one, but I couldn’t find a pattern that was the right size. I sketched one out and used it to cut the design out from several different colors of cardstock. Then I glued little puff ball tails onto my bunnies and glued the bunnies onto a brown ribbon measured to hang across the mantle.

Super cute little baby bunny.

I brought in 2 giant flowers that we’ve had since our wedding. They decorated the gift table at our rustic barn reception. I filled 2 of my Meme’s old blue mason jars with plastic eggs, inspired by this Pinterest find. I added artificial flowers leftover from last year, and a sweet flocked bunny I won from a blog giveaway at Goodbye House, Hello Home a few years ago.

I love the color the eggs and bunnies and flowers bring into the room. It feels like spring.

Our wedding and engagement pictures have been on our mantle for a while now, and I’m feeling it is time for a change. I’ve searched for ideas and landed on a few that I’m working on.

If you are looking for more Easter ideas, here is my Pinterest inspired Easter wreath.

How do you celebrate Easter?

Check out the fun craft parties I link to on my right sidebar.

06
Mar
2012

Of Spring and New Life

categories: jesus, love

You Have Redeemed My Soul

by Don Chaffer of Waterdeep/Enter the Worship Circle

You have redeemed my soul

from the pit of emptiness

You have redeemed my soul

from death

I was a hungry child

A dried up river

I was a dried up forest

and no one could do anything for me

You put food in my body

water in my dry bed

and to my blackened branches

You brought the springtime rain

of new life

nothing is impossible for You

27
Feb
2012

Let’s Make an Easter Wreath

categories: crafts, decorating, frugal, holiday

Easter is my favorite holiday.

Spring is my favorite season.

I really love the joy of Jesus risen and all of the bloom of new life.

I searched Pinterest for spring and Easter decorating inspiration and found this and this and decided to combine them using my interchangeable burlap wreath that I made here.

Here’s how it came about:

I stripped the Valentine’s Day stuff off the burlap wreath and wrapped the bottom of it in haute fur yarn, pinning the ends of it into the wreath with straight pins. Then I cut individual daisies off the daisy chain ribbon and pinned them into the “grass” using coordinating straight pins. I arranged a few plastic Easter eggs in the grass using the straight pins and moved them until I was happy with their placement.

I created the words using dollar store pipe cleaners and ribbon leftover from the nursery decorating.

You can find the pipecleaner letter directions found here.

I couldn’t decide where to put my lil birdie. I moved him around and took him off and put him back on. He sticks in with yet another straight pin, so it was super easy to move him. What do you think- bird or no bird?

He ended up here.

I’m super happy with the way it turned out.

The letters were WAY more difficult than I thought they would be.

Pipecleaner molding is not my best skill, apparently.

I also had a bit of a fiasco with the ribbon. I ran out on the happy and had to go back and make it super tight so it would cover the whole thing. In between I went to Hobby Lobby to find another spool of ribbon. They were out. They had just received a huge shipment of literally every other type of ribbon except the one I needed. A craftastrophe! Oh well. It all worked out in the end.

Does the Easter Bunny visit your house?

23
Feb
2012

Spring?

categories: family, play

We are playing outside nonstop right now.

The weather in Dallas is ridiculous this week and we find ourselves asking, “Is this spring?” Dare we hope that winter has passed us by completely? Spring is my favorite. Spring brings the trees budding, flowers blooming, birds singing, the discipline of Lent, the joy of Easter, our anniversary, Jed & Fisher’s birthdays, dining on patios, and SO MUCH playing outside.

Look at this big, almost 9 month old boy! He is standing and cruising around the edges of furniture like a champ. Neighbors of friends of ours gave us these Little Tikes playsets, and I know we are going to be playing like crazy all spring and summer. Don’t you just love hand-me-downs?

25
Apr
2011

Happy Easter!

categories: family, holiday, jesus

Here we are, giant belly and uncooperative wiener dog included. We hope that you and yours had a wonderful day celebrating our risen Lord.

Therefore He is able to save completely those who come to God through Him, because He always lives to intercede for them.

-Hebrews 7:25

24
Apr
2011

Nothing But Jesus

categories: jesus