In the late 2000s I kept a personal mom blog called Nest Bliss. I reviewed books, wrote about the house and the girls, and was even in the Wall Street Journal. These posts are from then: light, young, a mom in her late twenties. I have edited them to stand on their own.
Things are coming together for the Easter party this Saturday. This post is a follow up to this one from earlier in the week.
These easy egg votives (inspiration from Martha ,) are all ready for the adult tables. I used a Dremel to drill a hole in each egg (you could also use a safety pin to start the hole) and then scissors to make small cuts to allow me to break away the amount of shell I wanted.
I dyed them with a dollar store kit. I removed the votives from their metal cups.
I put a piece of tape on the bottom of each candle to hold the wick in place. Then I hot-glued ribbon around each metal cup and put it all together.
Can't wait to see them on the table.
This Easter tree is arguably the silliest craft I have ever made. It is pretty fun though.
Ava loves it. Hopefully I will get to make some more ornaments for it before the party or maybe some leaves like the one from Bird's Party .
It is just a branch lightly spray painted pink stuck in some floral foam in a bucket.
Ava's favorite part is the pom-pom ball baby chick peeping out of the real egg shell.
My favorite part are the bird ornaments I made a few weeks ago. I printed this templat e on watercolor paper that I cut down to fit in my printer. I just gave Ava a watercolor palette and let her go to work and they came out so pretty.
I had these wooden eggs for a while in an Easter craft kit from PBK. I painted and dipped them and just had fun with them.
Oh and this is what the branch looked like before the transformation to holiday weirdness.