Easter, Easter I've Been Thinking

The Monday before Easter, we decorated eggs. We went a different route this year and I think it will be a few years before we try this again because it is a little messy especially with a 3 year old. You will need hard boiled eggs (obviously), glitter, glue dots, and a permanent marker.

First stick a glue dot onto an egg.

Then place the egg/glue dot into glitter.

Then using more glue dots, glitter, and a marker, create awesome looking eggs.

Can you tell she had fun?

Next, I decided to make baskets for my girls this year and I love how these turned out. I call them tutu baskets.

You will need: baskets (I got mine at Dollar Tree), scissors, and tulle (I bought 2 yards each of 6 different colors). And really that amount came out perfectly. I actually went back and bought more thinking I wasn't going to have enough but now I'm stuck with a lot of tulle that can't be returned. Oh well, I'm sure I can find some other project I can use the tulle for.

So first things first. I folded the tulle in half so that I could cut more strips at a time. And now you cut strips and strips of tulle. Mine were about an inch thick though it doesn't matter if they are all cut the same size because you can't tell. All that tulle hides lots of mistakes, which is nice. Anyway, the cutting was my least favorite part, but probably because I cut it on my carpet so I had a hard time seeing all the layers to make sure I cut through them all. Oh and I only used 3 colors per basket, so I had a purple basket and a pink basket at the end.

So as you know, all material including tulle comes folded in half already. So once you have your strips cut you're going to want to cut along the fold so that each strip now becomes 2 strips.

Then find the middle of the strip and fold in half and thread the fold through the basket but don't pull it all the way through.

Open the strip in the middle creating a hole and pull the two ends of the strip through the hole, essentially creating a knot.

Pull until the tulle lays flat around the basket's edge.

Keep doing this all around the basket alternating your 3 different colors.

And now you're done and you can enjoy your new baskets.  Go find some eggs!

Next up are my place settings for Easter dinner. I took on the feast this year so my aunt could have a break. She does dinner every Sunday/holiday so I think she really deserved it. Anyway, I wanted to make it look fun so I made a craft. You will need: mini flower pots, moss, mini eggs, and a glue gun. The eggs and pots I found at Dollar Tree.  The moss is at any craft store.

Place some moss in the pots and then glue the eggs to the moss. Done!

Last, sticking with my egg theme from the place settings above, are my cupcakes for Easter dinner. Click HERE for my inspiration. Mine definitely did not come out as cute as my inspiration because I didn't have the right frosting tip or cute little flowers but I still like how they came out. I just used a box cake mix and made regular cupcakes. I dyed vanilla frosting brown (if you're wondering why I didn't just buy chocolate frosting, I didn't want it to be too chocolatey, you know chocolate cake with chocolate frosting is just too much for some people), frosted the cupcakes, and then placed some Cadbury Mini Eggs on top. Delicious!