HAPPY EASTER!

I hope everyone has a great Easter! We are having a great Easter at our house!

Pictures of the bread dough bunny to come later. :)

Sugared Popcorn and Easter cards

For our family, I make a card from Baby B each holiday. For easter this is what I did.

I used craft paint and made thumb prints on a piece of paper and made them into bunnies after they dried. (Trying to get thumb prints from a 9 month old is near impossible!) For the writing on the card, I used my Silhouette and used the Sketch Pens. It was so fun! The ears I just found at the dollar store. To go with it I decided to make some popcorn that in springy colors. I had a fun recipe for Sugared Popcorn in one of my recipe books and decided to try it out.

Sugared popcorn
1 stick butter (real butter)
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup water
1/2 tsp salt
food coloring
1 tsp flavoring (I did 1 tsp and it had tons of flavor, so if you dont want a lot then try less and taste to see if you want more.)

Bring all of the ingredients to a boil over medium heat and boil for 2 minutes. Remove and pour over popcorn. I used my air popper and did a cup of popcorn.(A cup before popped) If you are popping bags I think 2-3 would be about the right amount. Coat all of the popcorn and let cool. (I put my popcorn in a big bowl and coated it in there and then poured it on a cookie sheet to let it cool faster) This is a really quick and easy recipe!

I did pink and flavored it raspberry cheesecake and turquoise and flavored it tutti frutti. I think they turned out fun!

I think were about set for Easter now! off to get working on the bunny veggie tray.

First Easter egg hunt and Easter food idea

Hello today! This morning was our baby's first Easter Egg Hunt! He wasn't quite sure what to do, but loved picking up the bright eggs! Who needs a rattle when you have an egg with candy in it?!

Okay maybe he didn't find quite that many... He may have taken the empty eggs from everyone else to take a picture.

For Easter I am going to make this veggie rabbit for our family party. I saw it on Studio 5 (A crafty show that comes on each day in Utah) the other day and thought it was so cute! I decided there would be no point posting it Sunday because it wouldn't give anyone time to make it if they wanted to. So I figured show the link today so anyone who wants to make it can and I will post a picture of the one I made when its done! I am using white bread dough instead though...

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=204&sid=15141359

I think it will be soemthing fun and different! Another post coming later on a fun popcorn idea for Easter...

Last minute Easter Decor

Yes I know Easter is in 3 days... But where I'm just starting my blog I figured I might as well still post them. And truth be told, they all are quick so even with the time left anyone could still make them.
I was at the store the other day looking at paint colors to redo a table I got at a yard sale and I got the idea to make an Easter garland out of the paint chips. I had some at home from a previous project so I grabbed the paint chips and got started.

I cut out an easter egg shape from my Silhouette (Yes I love love it and I use it all the time!) I traced the egg on the back so the pencil marks wouldn't show and then cut them out.

I have a tiny hole punch and punched two holes in the top and threaded hemp cord string stuff through. (Good name for it huh! Dont really quite know what it is but any sort of string/yarn/etc. would work.) It was a really quick project but has been lots of fun! I hung it on my piano under other Easter decorations.

One other last minute project I did was an easter egg wreath...

Yep they are sideways... :) I should have taken pictures along the way and forgot... I just wrapped a wreath in white fabric so the yarn eggs had something better to stick to. I started at one end and strung yarn around and around while putting hot glue every so often to get it to stick. This project on the whole was pretty quick even though wrapping the egss was a little time consuming fairly quick. It could have used a few more eggs but I ran out of plastic eggs so for today thats how it will stay. More eggs will get stuck on eventually. :)

Both pretty quick projects and fun to add to the Easter decor collection. Now hurry and get working on your last minute wreath and garland too!