Category: Easter

Hippity Hoppity Easter’s On It’s Way

Although the weather isn’t cooperating, it is spring, and Easter is on it’s way.

It will be here in about two weeks, April 17th.

Bunnies are multiplying around our house as I decorate for the season.

On my last trip to Hobby Lobby I bought this grapevine bunny shape, 40% off.

All the way home I was thinking of just how I was going to decorate this bunny.

Less is always more for me.

Simple is what I like.

So using some flower picks, and a bit of moss, I glued them to one of the bunny’s ears, and also at the neck with my hot glue gun.

Simple for sure.

I thought of adding some ribbon, but no, just not needed.

A lovely transformation.

Perfect on my front door for Easter, with maybe a couple of pots of pink tulips around the door.

Hippity Hoppity, Easter is on it’s way at my house!

How about yours?

Hugs.

A Blessed Easter

Wishing all a blessed Easter on this holy day.

Maybe some of you are blessed to be together with family and friends today.

Ours will be small. just me, my son, and husband.

So very blessed and thankful to be together again this year.

It has been a tough year for all of us.

We will certainly enjoy our food, and I am sure my son will still, as old as he is, enjoy the Easter basket I made for him.

Just something Mom’s will always do for their children, no matter their age.

We will use this day to reflect on our risen Savior, pray, know Him, believe, and love Him, “He is not here, He has risen”.

Blessings.

Are You Ready for Easter?

Easter is tomorrow, are you ready?

Did you decorate your home with a bunny or two, some beautiful eggs, some Easter flowers?

Have you colored some eggs, made a few cards, put together some Easter baskets for those special ones in your life?

I think I’m ready except for finishing up on my Easter dinner table.

Menu planned from salad to dessert.

Selected the dishes, tablecloth, and napkins, but just needed a little something to place at each plate.

Using some small peat pots, craft paint, and the same floral napkins I used for my decoupaged eggs, I made favors for each place setting.

Painted the pots, and added flowers with Mod Podge.

When completely dry, I glued a wire handle to the inside of each pot, and added some grass.

Just need to add some Easter chocolates.

I’m ready!

Ready to celebrate the holy day of Easter with my precious family, just the three of us, at our kitchen table.

Blessed to be together.

Blessed to have all that we have because of Him.

Love to all during these holy days and always.

Flowering Spring Bulb Centerpiece

My local store had shelves of flowering spring bulbs on display as you entered the front door, daffodils, tulips, and hyacinths, in a variety of colors.

Needless to say, I brought home a couple of each.

Once I was home, I gathered different size clay pots from my potting area, and some potting soil, to transfer the plants from the plastic containers they came in.

I planted some together, others alone in smaller pots.

Gave the bulbs a good watering, and cleaned off the pots before I placed some of them on a basket tray.

Added a white bunny, and some of my decoupaged eggs, for a beautiful spring centerpiece.

The tray is in my living room now, but I plan on using the pots on my Easter Sunday dinner table.

I decided to top each pot with some moss for a more finished look.

The bulbs will continue to flower, and by Easter, they should provide lots of color to my table.

This is the first time I have done this, but I think it will be something I do every spring.

It is just so easy.

Together, it all feels like spring, and looks like Easter.

Once the bulbs have finished blooming, they can be planted outside for next year’s blooms.

I am sure your local store has a similar display out front.

Pick up a couple pots to bring some spring to your home.

The pots are easy to care for, watering every 3 days, and give them lots of sunshine.

So that’s it, an easy and simple way to create a beautiful spring centerpiece.

Hope you all were inspired, and are enjoying the beginning of spring.

Decoupaged Easter Eggs

Saturday was the first day of spring.

With it comes hope.

Hope that we can once again gather with our friends and families.

I already have a date with a friend for lunch outdoors, at our favorite Mexican restaurant.

We plan to meet the first day the temperatures are in the 70’s, with lots of sunshine, and after we have had both of our Covid vaccines.

My sister is already talking about a family cookout in the park.

Our family has not been all together in over a year.

I spent my first day of spring working on a project that has been on my “bucket list” for years, decoupaged Easter eggs.

The supplies needed were faux eggs, the kind you can paint and decorate, paper napkins, Mod Podge, scissors, craft paint, and a brush.

The first step is to cut out selected images from the napkins.

I picked floral napkins with lots of different flowers.

When cutting out your images, cut as close to the edge as possible.

Paper napkins are usually 2 or 3 ply, you will need to separate the layers, you want to work with the patterned layer.

Brush the Mod Podge on the egg, enough for your image, and then add the image and gently pat it on the egg.

You should try to pat out all wrinkles, but a few will not hurt.

Smooth out any excess Mod Podge on the egg with your brush.

When dry add one more coat of Mod Podge over the image to seal.

It may appear a bit cloudy, but it will dry clear.

That is it!

Look at my beautiful results.

They look like hand painted watercolor eggs.

I love that I can store them and bring them out every Easter.

I painted a few of the faux eggs spring colors, and I placed them all in the crate the eggs came packaged in, so lovely.

It is not a difficult project, but there are lots of simple steps. Steps that are well worth your time.

I also changed my front door wreath on Saturday, pink magnolias will now greet everyone.

Lots of bunnies around my home too!

After all, Easter’s on its way!

Spring blessings.

Thoughts of Spring

Well, it isn’t spring quite yet, but temperatures are warming.

Yesterday it was 60, with lots of sunshine.

Last week I cleaned off our porch and we actually sat out for a bit.

Just the thought of spring makes me so happy!

It’s time to put away the pine cones and winter greenery for some bright and airy spring branches and flowers.

So, I double masked myself, and took a little trip to Target and Michaels.

Spring cherry blossoms came home with me.

They were 40% off at Michaels.

They look so nice in my balloon vase.

So “springy”.

I really enjoyed looking at all the spring and Easter decorations that are out now!

At Target I found this oh so cute ceramic bunny basket for $3.00.

How cute, with the little bunny cutouts all around.

It is a good size too, with a gold handle.

I still find it hard to believe it was only $3.00.

How sweet it would be filled with colorful Easter eggs, or what a cute Easter basket filled with lots of fun things for someone you love.

Target has a spot in the front of the store with items from $1.00 to $5.00.

There are always nice seasonal items.

I also found these burlap carrots for $1.00 each.

A small basket filled with these carrots would be a simple Easter touch.

At these prices you can afford a bit of spring decorating in you home.

My little shopping trip was enough for now, letting me know spring is just around the corner.

It’s coming.

Spring is coming.

You can already feel it, can’t you!

I hear birds outside my window as I write this!

It brings hope, hope that our lives might return to some kind of normal.

With love and prayers that you all are staying safe.

Think hopeful, spring thoughts!

Our Easter Blessing


Hope you all had a blessed Easter.

Our family was surely blessed.

My niece Carrie, had a beautiful baby boy on Easter Sunday, weighing over 9 lbs.

Such a blessing during all the suffering and deaths in our country from the Covid-19 virus.

Heartbreaking.

Me and my sister planned a beautiful baby shower for Carrie.

We planned every detail for months, wanting it to be something really special for her.

After all was in place we unfortunately, only a week before the event, had to postpone the shower due to the social distancing and for the safety of everyone.

We were all disappointed, but when this is all over we will have the shower for Carrie and baby Josh, and it will be just as special.

I needed a tray to serve coffee with cake to our guests, so I decided to make a tray from a thrift store frame.

Took the frame apart and of course, I painted it white.

Printed out old childhood photos of me, my sister, and brother, and a few of my son.

Made a collage on the frame backing with all the photos.

Secured the photos with a bit of glue and added some gold handles to the tray.

Assembled the back of the tray to finish.

Perfect for serving coffee.

My tray is all about family.

I’m sentimental, and mushy, and loving, so when I can use old photos, you know I do!

Love this project so much.

Costing very little to make, but so valuable to me.

Would make a lovely Mother’s Day gift.

Love you all, take care.

Blessings.


Easter Egg Candle Holders

Staying in and away from family is surely difficult.

Miss my breakfast and lunch visits with my sister so much.

I have been watching, Little House on the Prairie, crying with every episode, and I know I have enjoyed too, too many sweets.

Being able to work on my projects has helped me stay busy during this isolation time.

Today I want to share a project using faux eggs to make some cute candle holders for my table.

Cute, don’t you think?

Painted 5 faux eggs, used 2 dowels, and 4 small wood plagues, painted white, to complete this project.

Drilled holes in the top and bottom of the eggs, the diameter of the dowels, then drilled holes in the wood pieces.

Glued the dowels in the drilled holes on each plaque, and when dried, slipped the eggs on the dowels, one on top of the other.

Glued another plague on top of the dowel to complete.

They would have been nicer with colored candles, more colorful, but white was all I had on hand.

No matter, I still love them.

They will be fun on my Easter table tomorrow.

Hope you all have a blessed Easter.

Take care, and remember we can, and we will, get through these times.

Love to all.



Back With You Once Again

So, I am saying once again, “it has been awhile”.

It has been over five months since my last post.

Five months, so hard to believe!

I have done a bunch of soul searching during this time, also new health issues filled my days with overwhelming worry.

Should I give up my blog or continue?

It hasn’t been the success I had hoped for, it is difficult to build followers.

Giving up my blog was always there, but now more than ever, with the craziness of our world, I know I need to keep it going.

I need to be able to share the things that give me joy in my life.

During these past months I missed sharing Thanksgiving posts like this sweet burlap table runner.

I stenciled the words, “thankful, grateful, blessed”, down the center.

Such an easy project that I used on my kitchen table on Thanksgiving Day.

A simple look, simple to make.

I missed sharing Christmas projects like these ornaments made from $1 cookie cutters, painted gold.

How rewarding to take inexpensive cookie cutters and change them into special ornaments.

So beautiful on my tree.

I also made some cute ornaments from wood rings, painted white and gold.

Added photos, words, and finished up by adding some eye hooks.

Love to use photos to personalize holidays whenever possible.

How sweet on my trees.

Love them!

I loved my trees this year, white, gold, with lots of snow, and a whimsy one, red and white.

I have been working on a few Easter projects.

Easter will be different this year, no church services, no large family meals, no community egg hunts, but I hope you all have still filled your homes with bunnies and eggs.

Just a few of our favorite Easter treasures, the ones we all keep and display year after year, the ones with meaning and memories, are good for our spirits.

I added this stenciled pillow this year.

I found the stencil on Amazon, and the pillow cover and paints I had in my craft stash.

Stenciling is not difficult, I found the secret is to add very little paint to your brush, almost dry.

If you have time to stop by tomorrow I have another Easter project to share.

I hope you and your loved ones are safe.

We will all get through this terrible time.

It will end and we can all be together with those we love once again.

Love to all, until tomorrow.

Happy Easter

Before this day ends, let me express my hope that you and your family had a blessed Easter.

Our Lord has risen as He said He would.

Our Easter was quiet and peaceful.

Gone are the days of hiding my son’s Easter basket, egg hunts, and choosing just the cutest stuffed bunny I could find for him.

Miss those days so very much, but thankful my little family was together again this year.

I still color eggs and decorate my home a bit for this holiday.

Bunnies everywhere!

A garland of bunnies made with colorful cardstock paper and pom-poms for tails.

Two old wood bunnies, made new again.

This one just needing a new ribbon and a new sign.

This one simply made with a piece of scrapbook paper decoupaged to a wood bunny cutout with Mod Podge. So simple, so lovely!

Jars filled with my son and husband’s favorite treats.

Made with jars from the $1 store and Easter figurines spray painted and glued to the lids with E6000 glue.

Cards were made for my dear sister and brother using old Easter photos. I love them, they are so precious.

I suppose those old Easter days are gone, but my love of creating and decorating for the holidays will always be with me, packed up each year to use again and again.

As we lowered our heads before our dinner, we spoke of realizing our lives have meaning because of our Lord’s Resurrection, we have hope, the hope of eternal life.

Happy Easter my friends.