Late Easter

I have been finishing up two Easter projects that I didn't get to until now. I decided that it is indeed less fun to make crafts for a holiday that already happened, so the rest of my ideas will wait 'till next year. I hate putting them away in a box for another year...but I'm glad I finished them.

Cute pinecone looking eggs. My friend and I did, we got the idea HERE. I supplied the pins...well most of them. And she supplied the eggs, and paper. I think I will display them on different height stands...we'll see. But I think they are just beautiful.



And yarn carrots. We found HERE. Super easy and cute. My friend supplied the yarn for these....she's a good friend :) They turned out really cute. I have A LOT more I want to do for Easter...but next year.

Teacher Appreciation

Teacher appreciation starts today. It's a whole week of showing love to those who raise are children while we are not! And I am SO thankful for them. My kids are very much like me, and respond better to outside sources for learning. My Dad attempted to teach us piano when we were little....FAIL. My Mom attempted home school with me in the fifth grade....FAIL. (which btw, if you're reading, I'm sure you did an excellent job...it was me...) So again I am VERY thankful to those who teach, inspire, and help my kids grow. I knew when I saw this idea on Skip to my Lou, that this was the gift I wanted to give Aubree's Pre-school teacher.
I took Aubree to Wal-Mart and had her pick out some flowers. We came home and found this cute pitcher in my "I'm-not-sure-why-I-have-you-but-I-know-I'll-use-you" pile, and viola....a beautiful gift.
I printed out the cute cute tag, from said blog...and used a scallop punch I have to make it extra cute. Hope she likes it.

Lil' Diaper cake

Another request from my MIL. She picked up all the stuff and asked me to assemble it. I had 100 diapers ( I used about 65) A bottle, a pack of wash cloths, a Johnson's to-go kit, and some ribbons. This is what I came up with.
She wanted it cute, but simple. She had already done a bigger gift at the shower, but she wanted all the girls in YW to present this to her. (It's on of her YW's Mom who just had the baby.) She is the cutest President E.V.E.R.


Turned out pretty cute!

Another banner

This time for a Royal Wedding! I used the free printables from Tom Kat Studio. And this as an inspiration for the backing.

We had a FULL on part-y! It was amazing. More pictures to come. Hopefully of better quality :)

Wonder Pets

My daughter got invited to a Wonder Pets party. I've never seen or heard of it, so I did a little research. Well, my daughter really wanted to get her a purple fairy barbie. So I thought I throw in a shirt also to add to the theme of her party. On the back I painted the logo for the Wonder Pets. Using the freezer paper method.
And I was crunched for time, so on the front just one of them. But I thought she was the cutest.. I didn't even have time to sew it on. So hopefully the iron on holds up.
And a close up. All the pieces are random fabrics, knit, cotton, printed cotton, and for the eyes I used fabric paint. It turned out pretty cute. Too bad I don't have a better camera to capture it all....

A gift

My sister found this HUGE egg at Hobby lobby. She wanted to decorate for her boyfriend for Easter. And then fill it. Little did we know inside that huge egg was another egg, and another. So we decorated all three. I came up with the idea of vinyl. So it's not girly. it's still springy and Eastery but not girly. We did it around the egg, but I only took shots of my favorite angles. For the smallest egg:

Medium:

Large: (his name is Guy Richey)

I think they turned out cute. And they'll be even cuter stuffed full of goodies!

Eggs...Eggs..and more eggs

It seems like most of my decorations are becoming eggs. My friend found all these cute ideas of covering cheap easter eggs. So we have started to make 'em. With more on the horizon!

First: Newspaper, sheet music (fake, it's actually scrapbook paper) and twine. I love the earthy look of these. I might make more. I can't decide if I have enough. The newspaper is a PAIN to adhere to plastic eggs....so we learned quick and used paper mache eggs to cover the rest. MUCH easier. And all we did is cut strips and mod podge it all on. We hot glued the twine on.

Second:

Fabric covered. Same concept. Strips and modge podge. The trick is to use a similar colored eggs as your fabric...and it looks awesome! I loved doing these ones.


I even put a few around the house in my little egg holders. (you probably saw them in my last post with out any explanations...that's what they were :)