Easter Gift DIY - Simple and Sweet

Our Easter crafting has been quite 'relaxed' this year. While in years past you would find me gathering supplies in order to paint paper mache eggs, decorate biscuits, craft cards etc. this year a teething baby has taken it's toll on my energy reserves and things have been kept quite simple. An Easter mask made at an Under 5's craft morning. Colouring-in Easter pictures at the library. The traditional bonnet making afternoon at school. But I did want to do a little something to get in the spirit. A thank you gift for Cohen's beautiful teacher, whose positive outlook and love of science have my six year old loving school.

Inspired by Pinterest, I stuck a sweet little porcelain bunny to a recylced jar, gave the lid a coat of gold spray paint, filled the jar with eggs, wrapped it all up with a saved ribbon and ta-dah, this little gift was less than $10. These jars would look just as sweet with almost anything on top, from a plastic dinosaur to a seed pod. 

They do make for a darling trinket jar and would be perfect in a craft room.

Easter Gifts?

Not all girls want chocolate...

in the shop now.

Yarn Along

I am so pleased with how these cushions turned out. One each for the children for Easter. They came together entirely with materials from the the stash (which of course makes them feel free). I made the cushion inserts from a heavy white cotton and stuffed it with a spare cushion that has been sitting in a cupboard without a cover. Cohen wandered in to my studio as I was stuffing the poly fill in to the cotton covers. 'Clouds!' he exclaimed and threw little tufts of poly fill up in to the air. 

Thank goodness for children's books with large fonts. I began reading Little House in the Big Woods for Cohen. When he lost interest I kept reading it myself. I was a fan of Little House on the Prairie as a child, and re-visiting Laura Ingalls Wilder as an adult brings with it new perspective and inspiration. The book is so simply written, but has a charm and romance all of it's own. I'm dreaming now of a log cabin and a sugar snow.

 What are you knitting and reading?

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Joining in with Ginny.

Raverly notes here.

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