DIY: Easter Egg Goodness...

I love Easter, Spring and all the colors they bring. Bright colorful Easter Eggs are the most fun! The littles and I enjoy getting creative with our eggs each year!

 

In prepration for this year's festivities, this past weekend we cleaned and prepped our eggs and colored them in bright colors.

 

Using a Dremel, such a handy tool, a steady hand made holes in each end of the egg. The littles, using a piece of copper wire broke up the yolk and white inside making it easier to blow them out.

Save the egg fillings for later use. A cleaned out creamer container is perfect for this!

As a family we gather every year, as do many. We always have games and giggles and lots of delicious food. The Littles and their cousins have a fabulous time, as do the adults! This year I've decided to change up the egg hunt just a little. I'm the mom so I can do that. I've taken the beautiful, blown, colored eggs and created tiny tags for inside. Some have sweet sayings, some are instructions for a silly or nice gesture, but some are "winners". Who doesn't love a surprise?

This is what our eggs contain but you can put whatever you like:
· Hoppy Easter!
· You WIN $$$
· Fabulous Family Time
· Run around the house 3x!
· Hop on 1 foot for 10 sec.
· You WIN, pick a treat!
· Say something nice about your brother/sister.
· Make funny faces!
· You WIN a coloring pack!
· Have a great day!
· You WIN $$$
· Walk with an egg on a spoon!

The eggs from which one end was removed I decided would make a nice presentation for a yummy treat. After emptying, cleaning, and coloring the eggs they were ready to fill. Mixing chocolate chips and peanut butter chips I melted them in a bowl over hot water. Once cool enough to the touch but still runny I transferred the mixture to a large Ziploc bag and cut the corner off making a very efficient way to fill the eggs. I then let them harden in the refrigerator and tada!
Of course you can use any chocolate and a few I filled with candy.

I cut bright colors of felt into flower shapes and set them in an antique cupcake pan. I think this made a nice cushion for the filled eggs and great presentation overall!

Link-Ups:

Just Us Four - Pinworthy Project

Three Mango Seeds - Feed Me Friday

Kitched Meets Girl - Bunny Hop Blog Party

Happy Hour Projects - Bunny Hop

Nap Time Crafters - Friday Favs Party

DIY: Lovely Jewelry Cards

Do you make jewelry to sell or give as gifts? If so these are the cutest, most simple and most economic alternative to purchasing those plain old jewelry cards!

All you need is pretty card stock, a tag punch (I got mine at Michaels Arts & Crafts with a 40% off coupon), and a pin. A whole punch is needed if you want to hang your jewelry on a display.


Punch out your tags in an array of patterns. All that's left to do is make holes for your earrings or necklace. If this is for a necklace I still make two holes and add slits to accommodate the chain.


See, pretty & neat, and easy peasey!

Happy Friday.....

I woke up this morning with a plan, as I do most mornings! A bit behind as far as productivity but really enjoying this project. Watermarking all my photos! Do you do this? I've become addicted.... and it's easey peasey with the iWatermark App on my iPad.

It adds a lovely finished look and ensures people can identify your photos!
Oh and how about easily adding pics to a digital collage? I love the PicFrame App for that...

Can't get enough! 



Country Girl in a Big/Little City....

My own mother has often said she thinks I was "born in the wrong century". I can't entirely argue with this as I used to dream of being a proper lady, living on a country estate near the sea (estate being the key word), knitting, cooking, cleaning, gardening and such and living off the land. Well this has not come to pass as of yet.... so I do what I can.
Given the unseasonably warm weather we've been experiencing here in New England I've had the planting itch. It's still too cold at night to leave plants out but covered on most nights they do fine. My dilemma, a second story loft apartment, the solution a custom made green house hung off the back and accessible by a glass door. Thanks to a little creative thought by a VERY handy man, this was a fairly easy, very efficient little project.

The top is even hinged to open on the hot days. Easy peasey!