Easter Bunny Bunting Banner

I've been wanting to do an Easter Project with Coconuts and this was the perfect project.  Dana  from Made had a free pattern that I used.  I didn't use my machine for this one.  I did all the sewing by hand.  Coconuts sewed on all the little accessories.  She really loved doing this project with her Mama. 

I decided to use multiple Easter colours for this banner and I think it's pretty cute.  The best part is that Coconuts helped with it and she's pretty proud of her work.  She's a crafter in the making.

It looks pretty sweet on our mantle.  Happy Easter everyone!!

Dying Easter Eggs

I love spending time with my kids, but I also love spending time with my sweet nieces and nephews!  My brother and I got our kids together to color Easter eggs.  For the most part it went off without a hitch, (if you consider child #3 breaking a glass before it even begins and child #6 having a melt down because said egg was put into the green food coloring when apparently said child didn't want it to be so).  But isn't that what makes these family events memorable?

Isn't Tato the sweetest little boy, he was totally posing for pictures with his finished eggs when we were all done and he was so stink'en adorable.  I love that kid! 

We hard boil our eggs so that we can have them on toast the next morning, which means the eggs are really hot and the wax crayons just melt right on to them.  Makes for some sweet designs!

I sure hope you all had a fantastic Easter and created some of your own family memories this Easter weekend.

(My brother let me use his super fantastic camera, now I may have to get one of my own!  John if yours is missing I likely didn't take it and it's probably not at my housee.  Just saying) 

Easter Basket Cupcakes

My sidekick Monica and I decided to make these fantastic Easter cupcakes for the kids at church.  Really I think it was more about how we needed an excuse to get together.  These are so easy and quick to make.

First just make a batch of your favourite cup cakes, set them aside and let them cool until you are ready to decorate them. 

 To make the grass, you take some coconut and put it in a bowl.  Keep dropping a few drops of green food coloring into it and mix it around until it's green to your liking.

 We cheated here and took some store bought icing, divided it into four and made four Easter colors!  Easy peasy, I'm telling ya!

 Start icing the cupcakes and dip them into the "Grass". 

 Are you seeing how quick and easy this is.  They were so tasty too!

 Last but certainly not least, your going to dip Cadbury Mini Eggs (those bad boys are my Easter indulgence, we have a love hate relationship) into a bit of icing and place them on top of the basket so they don't roll off.  We then cut 1/3 of the pipe cleaners off and then just stuck them into the cupcakes to make the handles. 

The kids loved them and I bet yours will too!  Happy Easter everyone.  Thanks for stopping in!