Christ Has Risen!

Happy Easter! 

I wanted to show a different spin on Easter baskets. My boys are old enough that baskets just don't really seem to fit their age. However, I love to do little things for them celebrating the holidays so this year I decided to use large storage jars.

 These are perfect for all the goodies I wanted to put inside them. So basically I just layered the candy and worked my way to the top. 

Each one has a huge chocolate bunny in the middle...yummy.

In each container I was able to place five eggs with a saying or question for my boys to read out loud.  I wrapped them in money for an extra yay!

These containers are great because I can use them for other holidays Valentines Day, Halloween etc. You can find these large containers at Target and Walmart for around $5.00 in the canning supply section.

Easter's On It's Way

Now that St. Patrick's Day is past it's time to switch my little tree to Easter. I love the bright colors and cute little odds and ends I have on it. For instance I found these cute little velvet and felt carrots and wanted to put them in my tree somehow. So I decided to buy the little clothes pins and simply glued them to it.

YAY... for glue!! Once they were dry I just clipped them on the branches.

Here are some Easter ornaments I made for a local shop here in Houston. These fine babies are paper mache so they are super light weight (minus the pound of glitter I used). I cut all my little shapes with scrap paper. It's always fun to get my crafty on!


paper mache ornaments, glitter, dye ink, paint