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I have been on a peg people frenzy lately and thought I would share one of my newest Pinned and Crafted success stories. If you are wanting to join in on the fun I will be doing a four part tutorial for the different characters with pictures and your very own downloadable pdf template free from my hand to yours. But please, if you want to use this on your blog or elsewhere, give the author of the chicken scratches credit. <smile>
Stay tuned!
I LOVE free printables and found some super cute Easter ones made for the website:
A great website I recently found via their Facebook page.
Without further ado here are the two (of many options) that I love for Easter.
Click on the links above the pictures to get your own set of amazing, and
FREE Easter printables from each design set.
Which one do you think I should use this year?
Easter, Easter, Easter. I love the idea of making our own Easter Baskets and after the success of last year I have already begun to gather for this year. Not only was this super cost effective last year, but having control over each and every item given to our sweet child set our minds at ease.
This year I was struggling with the candy overload that always comes with holidays and came up with the idea of putting cars in the eggs instead of candy. So I went onto ebay, my own personal vortex, and found a lot of cars. Perfect! If you haven't ever bought things in "lots" you really ought to give it a try. True, you might end up with more than you need (ahem, 150 ties later...) but this can be solved two ways. One, you go in one it with someone else. Two, you save the excess for one of the other holidays needing items such as these (birthday, stocking stuffer, Happy Spring Day, etc...)
So at this point these lovely items will grace our sons Easter Baskets:
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| Cars!!! We will split the "lot" with a good friend. |
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| Vintage Books |
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| Mini Containers of Playdoh, we will split this set up as well. |
Have you started thinking about Easter? Follow along as we share more ideas, tips and tricks!
We made our Thank You cards for Christmas this year and loved how they turned out. Using some gold and silver cards that were heavily discounted right after the holidays we decided to adorn them with a banner theme.
Using cardstock we cut out little banner shapes.
Then stamped them with the word Thankful.
While these dried we cut pieces of Jute and glued them along the top of the card.
We thought the Jute made them less holiday and more shabby-chic.
After the ink had dried we glue the little banner pieces right under the Jute line. Voila!
These were inspired by the ever so lovely crafts found here on our Pinterest board.
Happy Crafting!
A few weeks ago my sweet friends husband came home to us sitting on the couch pondering what to do with a gift of delicious walnuts. He chimed in:
"Walnuts?
Here, let me have one".
And he proceeded to snag one of the walnuts and use it to rub the wood chips and discolorations on their coffee table. Puzzled we just sat and watched.
In a minute he stood back and beamed, the spots were almost gone!
Amazing!
So I came home and tried it with what I had on hand,
a pecan.
And it also worked. This is one of the moments where the solution is so frighteningly logical, yet not instantly assumed. Of course it works because it is just like the oil you would purchase in the store. But you might be like me and not think to use what you have on hand, so I thought I would pass his wisdom along. Here is some photo "evidence" from our coffee table.
Before (closeup of problem spot, but it was this bad all over):
After:
PS the photos don't do it justice!
