easter baskets

I finally finished the kids Easter Baskets. I LOVE how they turned out. I saw this idea of using fruit baskets on pintrest and knew instantly I wanted to do it. My kids had fun choosing their own ribbon to make them "theirs".
The baskets were only $3 each. Then $2 (each) for ribbon and a can of $3 spray paint and I was done. Not bad for $12! I love that they are unique.

egg banner

When I saw this banner of pintrest I knew I just had to make one. I got a book at the thrift store for $.50 for the pages and cute the eggs out on my cricut. I then inked all the edges and glued it together. I simple folded the paper over the twine and stapled it.
LOVE how it looks! and love that it only took like 30 minutes!

easter in full bloom

I, sadly, didn't get to play around with Easter crafts as I would have loved this year due to my back going out. Thankfully I am usually ahead of the game as far as holidays go so that when it snuck up on me there wasn't too much I had to finish up. So here they are. This year's goodies....
These were Styrofoam eggs that I pinned circles on to. I was inspired my these. If doing this you need to start at the narrower end of the egg or else it will look like a pine cone when you are done.....yes, I learned that one the hard way! :)

These fabric covered eggs are so easy, fast, and messy! :) I just cut strips from some of my fabric scraps and mod-podged them on plastic eggs. I was inspired by these here.


These eggs just kind of came together. I got this great rabbit from my mom and I needed something to go with it. I had thought out newspaper and then I say these eggs here. That lead to twine, which lead to music covered eggs as well. I love vintage music paper right now, so I am sure I will find ways to use it again soon. There were just plastic eggs are well that I covered. I love how they turned out. They don't really match any of my other Easter decor, so they have a great home in my upstairs hall.

I had to make and "insect" egg frame as well. It was too simple not to. I cut the glitter egg in half to make it look cracked. It turned our great. I saw these yarn-covered carrots here and had to do them. They took a while to wined, but they were so cute that they were worth it.

Here is one of the Easter banners I made this year. I still can't decide which one I like best, but this one turned out cute.


And lastly, this egg garland that was made from paint-chip cards (that are free I might add!) is SOOOO cute. I stole the idea from here. They look so cute and fun in my kid's playroom. I made one for each of the window that mirror each other in there.

kid-friendly egg dying

Using muffin trays for dying eggs was the best tip I got this year. It was great for my boys. No worrying about tipping over glasses this year!