Even more Easter Eggs

I made these large eggs, per Martha Stewart's directions, to use as Easter baskets for my girls away at college. Using mod podge and the paper mache method, I layered three layers of paper over balloons, tissue paper for the inside, newspaper as an inner lining and the pretty wrapping paper on the outside. After they dried, I cut them open to resemble cracked eggs. 

As an extra, non-Martha touch, I added silk gerbera daisies to the tops.
Added these and Easter grass.
Tied them up with tulle and seam binding and shipped them off to the colleges. I didn't show you sooner since I wanted to be sure they had arrived in the mail. To my girls and fiance, with love, momma. 

Miss Rhea's Easter Swap

I am so happy that I participated in Miss Rhea's Easter Swap.

Thank you Miss Rhea! This was so much fun and alot of work on the hostess's part. 

We each received 2 partners and we were to make a basket using a yogurt cup and include 5 treasures with it. My first partner was Linda.

This is my beautiful basket and treasures from Linda as I took them out of the box.

I asked my partners to use creams, whites, beiges etc.
This is a detail of my basket , a sheet music flower
These are the treasures Linda included with my basket...Pompom trim, a rhinestone button, lace and a chandelier crystal all on the most beautiful tags. She also included chandelier stamped muslin ribbon with an Eiffel tower charm. I really enjoyed all of it!
I love chandeliers! Thank you soooo much Linda.

My second partner was Leslie.

This is the pretty basket she gifted me with and all the pretty wrapped treasures.

Here is a close-up of the pretty basket she made.
These are my gorgeous treasures unwrapped.
They include the sweetest tiny seam binding covered wreath, a velvet bookmark,
a rhinestone pin, a shaker of silver glitter,
and a millinery flower of the most beautiful shades of ecru and sand. Thank you Leslie, I love it all!
Happy Blessed Easter to everyone!

Easter goodies

I am so excited! I found some vintage inspired Easter decor items and I bought enough to share with you. Detailed panoramic egg boxes with vintage inspired prints from Katherine's Collection. Also, embroidered hanging pockets that hold copies of vintage Easter postcards, also from Katherine's Collection for 2009. You can find them in my ebay store. 

A little Easter sweetness

At the suggestion of a friend, I made one of my card baskets using copies of vintage Easter postcards. They are so precious and sentimental! I used 12 different designs with the sweetest sugary colors. They are laminated for strength. The time consuming part is all the sewing. Remember these from the 60's?! Ok, maybe you are younger than me! This would look so cute with some Easter grass and a chick or two.  I will be making a few more of these as Easter is sneaking up on us even though there is snow out my window!

Easter eggs and Fairy wings

Here are some spring items I have been working on. Some more traditional. Some with an altered twist. I used the old fashioned panorama eggs as inspiration. The eggs are sugared on the back with dusty rose or aqua german glass glitter. It is so hard to get the true colors in photos. The insides are sugared with clear german glass glitter over book pages. I had fun and when I clean up all this glitter , I'm going in for more! For the tussie mussies I made sweet beaded handles and added paper grass so you could add some treasures.
Now if the weather would cooperate. ...some bunny's gonna freeze his tail off!