Easter...

We had a great Easter with our family...though our plans did change just a bit, it was still turned out to be a pretty relaxing day!  I don't have too much else to add to the kitchen, but here are some adorable pictures of Belly Boo on her first Easter egg hunt.  She had a blast!

Easter Prep: Peanut Butter Eggs

I love me some peanut butter eggs, so since it's the best time to make and partake in these lovely little treats, I decided to make some for the family and our Easter afternoon dessert that we're hosting this coming Sunday.  I found a really easy recipe online and just went from there.

It was really, really, really hard to not nom on them while I was making them.  I can only imagine how hard it's going to be to resist eating them until Sunday.

Tutorial: Easy Easter Bunting

I just did a post on some of my Easter decorations, and I wanted to share my Easter bunting that I made in about an hour!  It was so easy!

Here's what you need:

• cute paper (I used some scrap booking paper)
• egg template
• scissors
• hole punch
• letters
• ribbon
• glue or photo backing squares

Let's get started! 


To make my egg template, I just found an egg that I liked off of Google Images and resized it in Picasa to get the sizes that I wanted.  You can make your eggs as big or small as you'd like - since my mantle is pretty big my eggs are on the larger side.

After my egg templates were cut out, I picked my papers, traced the eggs on the back, then cut them out.

Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of the next part, but it's really simple.  I just took a hole punch and punched two holes near the top of each egg.  Then I used my Cricut to cut out the letters for "Happy Easter" and also cut out a few flowers to add some space between the two words.  After they were attached with the photo backing squares, I strung the letters on my ribbon and hung them up, and......

ta-da!  Easy Easter Bunting to add a little spring color to your home!

If you were wondering about the smaller eggs in the first few pictures, I used them to decorate my front door. I just hand wrote "Happy Easter" and used some clear tape to hang them up!

Happy Easter decorating!  

Decorating for Easter

I wasn't really sure how to decorate the house for Easter this year.  I don't think I really decorated last year, but now that Belly Boo is a bit older I wanted to start doing some cute things, and it gives me an excuse to be crafty.  I didn't go overboard and I think we only spent about $10 on plastic eggs (gotta have those!), and I used things that I already had around the house.