Minion Eggs

What else can we do with those left over plastic Easter eggs?

So far we've made teacups and a basket of strawberry eggs.

The little guy loves the movie Despicable Me.  He thinks the minions are so funny.

Who am I kidding...I think they're funny, too.

Let's make some Minions.

I used half a blue egg, half a yellow egg, googly eyes, and black vinyl.   

Easy and fun. :)

Easter Preparations

The ladybug is quick to remind me that the Easter bunny will be here in just a few days.  Funny how she can remember that, but forgets to put her pj's in the hamper after getting dressed.  

Just sayin'.

So did you know you can mail plastic eggs?  Well I didn't until I saw it on Making Memories with Your Kids.

Last week we sent some to out of state cousins.  How fun would it be to see an Easter egg in your mail box? 

The Easter bunny kindly sent some to our kiddos too.

Don't get me wrong, we love the bunnies, eggs hunts, and baskets full of candy at Easter, but as the ladybug gets a little older I want to put more meaning into it.  Real meaning.

She's at the perfect age for this cross craft we did with oil pastels.  When she saw what the colors did when she rubbed her finger across them, she thought it was the coolest thing!

You can find out how to make one at Housing a Forrest. 

 I had never heard of an Easter garden until about a week ago, but I think it's the best idea for an indoor Spring garden ever!  Next year we'll plant it sooner so that the grass will hopefully grow in by Easter.

Even without the grass, I think it looks pretty.

You can find directions for making your own at We are That Family

Another thing I had never heard of until a couple weeks ago was Resurrection eggs.  As you read the story of Easter, you open these eggs that have items inside that relate to the story.  The ladybug LOVED this.  She was even able to tell me the whole story herself just by opening each egg and recalling what the item meant in the story.

This egg set you can find HERE.

And Easter prep just would not be complete without eating one two three green pastel chocolate buttercream eggs.  

An absolute favorite of mine since I was a kid.

What are you preparing for Easter?

Easter Tea Cups

Care for a spot of tea?  

Sunghee over at Creativity in Progress made lovely little tea cups out of plastic eggs and I fell in love with them.  

Which, of course, means I must make them.

These little cuties are embellished with washi tape and other lovely embellishments.

A card stock butterfly folded in half creates the handle, and a large button is hot glued to the bottom.

I think we will have to have an Easter day tea party.

Fancy hats and all :)

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Strawberry Easter Egg Basket

I love this Easter basket.  

There's just something about strawberry baskets that's so sweet and girly!

I drew the "seeds" on the strawberries with a black sharpie.

For the leaves I traced and cut out a star on green card stock.  

The stem is a segments of a chenille stem poked through the center of the star, 

and all hot glued to the top of the egg.

I found this idea in the April Family Fun Magazine.

Edited: berry baskets found at Sweet Lulu

After Easter the ladybug can use this in her play kitchen.

Now I'm wondering what else we can turn plastic eggs into :)

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Easter details Inspired by you

I've been working on a lot of different things lately.  I get more done if I work on a lot of things at once.  Weird logic, but it works for me.  Unfortunately that just means the table and counter top are covered with half done projects.  Ick.

Some of the things I've been making have been inspired, or copied :) , from you all.  That's what I'm sharing with you today.  There are so many great ideas out there! 

I found this adorable idea for a basket from  The Rachel Berry Blog. It makes a sweet Easter basket for us grown ups.

 I took some crafting eggs and painted a few light blue, and a few I decoupaged with dictionary pages.  

 

This is my version of the Pottery Barn eggs that everyone is copying.  I painted the eggs and glued on letters I cut with my cricut.  Find other versions of the PB eggs at Kindness Matters  and My Northwest Nest

These carrot boxes I made using the template from Emily Burnette's Recipe for Cute .  She used super cute pattern paper for hers.  I was just working with what I had, but I think it's still kind of cute!  Perfect for filling with small Easter treats.

 These are so sweet.  This little hersey kiss box template I got from Infarrantly Creative.   I think it's so sweet that they read, "Bunny Kiss."

We made these ones for the ladybug's preschool Easter party.  We took tootsie roll filled banks and turned them into chocolate bunnies.  The inspiration for this came from The Seven Year Cottage.  I liked these because ladybug was able to glue everything on herself.  Well, until halfway through when she decided she was just going to hand me everything while I glued it all on for her. 

This is why we love tootsie rolls :)

More Easter inspiration is on the way!  I'm finishing up some other things and will be posting those later tomorrow!

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More fun matchbook notebooks

I loved the Valentine ones so much that I decided to make some more matchbook notebooks. 

Green matchbooks...

{a lucky little notebook}

Sunshine yellow matchbooks...

{bring on spring!}

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