Easter Wreath

This post comes from my family blog, before I started this craft blog so some of you who follow both, may have already seen this, but since Easter is coming up I figured it was appropriate.

 I got the idea for an Easter wreath at Life, Marriage and Motherhood. I love dollar store crafts. In all it cost me $3.

It was so easy to put this together. You just need a wreath form and these eggs on sticks (lol what else do you call them?) from Dollar Tree. I just cut down the sticks and slid the eggs randomly into the form and put some hot glue on them to hold them in place.

I made this wreath last year, but I was thinking you could also make the eggs like I did for the Easter Egg Tree and glue them on. That way you can keep the same color scheme between the two decorations.

Please Forgive Me...

I'm going to be a little scarce around here over the next week or so. We're packing up and moving. Where to? hehe I wish I knew...

Did that confuse you? Yeah, me too

Well we're buying a house, but the seller has been HORRIBLE at answering phone calls so we've been waiting and waiting. In the mean time our apartment lease is coming to an end and they want $500 more than we're currently paying to go month to month. So we've got a rent house lined up in case it takes another couple weeks, but we've heard rumor that we might close early next week. So we're really kind of in limbo. We definitely don't want to move twice if we can avoid it, but I'm not sure we'll close before our contract is up.

So our house currently looks like this...

 And Andrew's room is the storage space for some of it

In the meantime I'm going to try my hand at scheduling a post or two, but once we get settled I will have tons to share on cleaning. I actually can't wait to attack our new place with Shaklee products! I know the stove we bought for it needs some major help. I've also got a giveaway running over at A Little Knick Knack, check it out, maybe you could win a sample of the Basic H2 for your spring cleaning!

Easter Egg Tree

So I know I've skipped over St. Patrick's Day, but I'm getting ready for an upcoming craft club so I needed to prepare an example. This project was inspired by Martha Stewart, although she used real eggs that had been dyed and emptied out. I wasn't that brave so I went ahead and just used plastic eggs from the Dollar Store.

I started by gluing the egg closed. When it was dry I Mod Podged a couple different materials onto the egg;

Fabric:

Scrap book paper:

And printed tissue paper:

 

The fabric and tissue paper were the easiest to apply to the egg, but I like how they all turned out.

So after Mod Podging the material to the eggs and applying a coat of Mod Podge to the outside, I waited until they were dry and whipped out the drill. I carefully drilled a hole in each end and with a long thin needle I threaded ribbon through with the loop at the smaller end.

Tie a knot at both end right up against the egg and you're done! I embellished one with some rickrack, you could also use buttons, glitter, rhinestones, basically anything you choose.

I put the whole thing together by gathering some branches from some nearby trees and arranging them in this little planter. 

I love how it turned out and if you're able to find some cute artificial branches you could make this a year round thing, hanging little decorations for each holiday. I'm gonna give it a try, I'll let you know how it goes.