Easter Egg Card

Wow, how did Easter sneak up on me? Time is zipping by and I have to stop.... and focus on the important things.  Easter is a very important day for us Christians. It is one of the two holy days (Christmas being the first one) that we love to celebrate. And I want to share this day with friends and family, so...

I made some Easter Cards that you might want to make too.

Today's project is:
Easter Egg Card
you will need:
white card stock
colored/printed card stock
brad
glue

You will want to make an egg pattern on scrap paper. Make sure it fits an envelope.

Then trace this egg onto the white card stock and the colored card stock.

Take your scissors and cut zig zags into the lower half to show the 'egg' cracking. You will glue this onto the bottom of the white egg.

Then take an exacto knife, or something likewise, and cut a slit into the top to put in the brad. This will enable the top half of the colored egg to open up to show the greeting.



You can also write a greeting onto the back of the egg.
I want to wish everyone a happy Easter and a wonderful new year since this is the beginning of Spring. Winter is ending and I'm thankful for that. I love the new flowers and buds and warm weather. So bring on shorts and flip flops.

tip of the day:

take your fabric softener sheet, and sew around three sides. Tuck in some lavender and sew around the remaining edge. Throw this into your dryer and your clothes will smell  wonderful! It should last several dryings.

 

That's all for now...

Dee

Lavender Bottles

Spring has sprung, and it makes me happy. Some days are warmer than others, sometimes it rains. But I'm very glad winter is over, and I will take all unexpected weather I get. As long as it's warm.

A wonderful part of warmer weather is flowers. And when things start to bloom, so do ideas.
I love to press flowers for future use (use a phone book) or make sachets. Which is what this post is about.

Today's project is:

Lavender Bottles

What you need:
fresh lavender stalks
ribbon
string

First gather some lavender, cutting the stalks at least a foot long.
If you have to do this when it is fresh, because you bend it. And if the lavender is dried out or old, it will crack and break instead of bend.

Take about twenty stalks and tie a string around the whole bouquet, under the blossoms.
Then, one by one, bend the stems backwards downward. You will be encasing the blossoms in a 'bottle'.
This is an old fashioned craft.

Tie a ribbon around the stems about half way down. And use as a room air freshener (wave it around and it is a natural way to scent the air).
Or put it in a glass tray or place a few in a vase to keep the air smelling like wonderful lavender.

Now I have discovered as it dries out, the blossoms tend to fall out. So if I do this again, I will wrap the blossoms in netting BEFORE encasing them in their own stems.

Tip of the day:
This has nothing to do with lavender, except this tip smells good too, in a different way...BACON.
I find that a pack of bacon is too much for my hubby and I at one sitting. So when I buy bacon at the store, (especially when they are on sale then I buy several packages), I cut the whole package in half. Put each one in a ziploc bag and throw in the freezer. So when I need some yummy bacon, I take the half pack out, defrost in the micro, and fry up in the pan. It turns out to be just the right amount, with maybe a few left over for future use (bacon bits on salad, or BLT's).

That's all for this week...
:D