Hoppy Easter!!!

Happy Easter, everyone! I hope that you all have wonderful, sunny Easter Sundays to celebrate with your family and friends. 

As for me, Easter kind of snuck up on me this year!

Things in my life have been super busy between work, wedding planning and my Dad is once again enjoying a hospital vacation. Since my Dad is going to be in the hospital on Easter, I wanted to make something for him that might cheer him up a little bit. 

 What do you think? 

I bought a couple packs of Cadbury eggs, a planter and piece of floral foam from the dollar store, Easter grass and used bamboo skewers to make it. I just stuck the bamboo skewers through the bottom of the eggs and stuck them into the floral foam, covering the foam with the Easter grass. 

      When I was finished putting it together, Amazing Boyfriend Fiance looked at it and said, "You know I like Cadbury eggs, too." ( Little does he know that he's getting one, too!)

I also had a lady that stopped me as I was walking through the hospital to deliver it to my Dad, that asked me where I bought it. She was a little disappointed to find out that I'd made it, but thought it was such a cool idea. 

My Dad thought it was super cool too! 

Sometimes Acting Like a 6 Year Old Can Be Fun...

Amazing Boyfriend and I decided to color Easter eggs, even though we didn't have any kids helping us, although we think that Luna probably wanted to help. 

 

 So pretty!!!

I'm going to take them over to my parents' house and do an Easter eggs hunt for the kids with these eggs and the personalized Easter eggs that I made for the kids. 


P.S. Happy Easter

First Vinyl Project Ever!!!

For Christmas I received my Silhouette machine as a gift from my parents. 

I was very proud of my Mom since buying it for me meant that she had to shop online, which she's still new at. She got a great deal on it, from a retail website, but being that it didn't come from Silhouette, it didn't come with any extra goodies and she couldn't find any from the same website. So I received my machine without vinyl. 

Honestly, I wasn't bothered by not having any vinyl. I wanted the machine mainly to make stencils for glass etching (which I use contact paper for) and fabric painting. I've also used it to cut out shapes for other projects. 

But the more I poke around blogland, the more curious I am about vinyl. 

I found an awesome website that has vinyl for a really good price, at least compared to other websites that I've checked out. 

I wasn't sure what I was going to make for my first vinyl project, but then I saw this picture that  Wendi of Project Purple posted of applying vinyl to decorative eggs for an Easter decoration. Inspiration struck and I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I went to Michael's and was super excited to find large plastic Easter eggs for 99 cents (score!) 

For my first vinyl project ever, I applied their names in vinyl to large plastic eggs for my nieces filled with treats for Easter. 

Pretty simple, right? I figured a simple project would be easy to start with. 

Simple, but so cute! I think I'm going to hide these for the kids when we do the Easter eggs hunt, because who wouldn't like finding their own special egg filled with goodies just for them. I know I wouldn't mind.

I think the kids are going to LOVE these!!!

I'm sharing this project at the following parties: