With three spring birthdays around here, I give Easter as little attention as possible. We do the bare minimum: one hunt for candy-and-coin-filled plastic eggs. The end. No baskets and no decorations. I can't remember the last time we boiled and dyed eggs! With a late Easter this year, we're having a bit of fun. I saw a crafty idea for
making a tea party set out of plastic eggs (link). Yesterday CO and I made a set of teacups and cupcakes to give to her friend at a birthday party on Saturday. The teacups are made with buttons and half an egg. The other half of the egg is the frosting part of the cupcakes. I used felt for the cupcake bottoms instead of playdoh containers.
And after we hunt for our plastic eggs on Easter? We're making more! Even the boys are excited because I used an exacto knife to cut buttons in half for cup handles. SO joined CO's tea party this morning before school, both girls sipping and pretending to nibble away on these little cupcakes. (Side note: as much as joining in any hip fad like cupcake mania makes me want to vomit, THIS was easy and fun.)
And I had everything on hand, so it didn't involve a trip to Michael's or Hobby Lobby--I love "free" crafts!
It was a crafty week. After a spring break tending
Mr. Gimpy Arm Boy, I got out my beading bin and made pomegranate pendants inspired by Sue Monk Kidd's memior
Traveling with Pomegranates. She co-wrote this book about mothers and daughters with her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor. I liked Kidd's
The Secret Life of Bees but did not like
The Mermaid Chair, so I was very happy to find that I enjoyed this one.
