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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Easter Greetings

I wanted to take the time to wish everyone a beautiful remainder of the week and weekend

I am taking some time off from blogging as we celebrate Easter here at our house.

Much needed time for reflection, family and friends!

God Bless you all!

Patricia

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OOPS I almost forgot to tell you all
Our homestudy is on MONDAY!!!
More on that next week!!!
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PS: There is still some time to join my Thirty-One blog for a chance to win one of five Thirty-One key fobs

I will announce the winners tomorrow morning before my break!

Here is the LINK

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Easter Party in pictures

Easter Party

Categorically Crafting

Dollar Tree Lamb

Did you see the lambs at the Dollar Tree?

I had plans to paint him... and maybe I will someday

For now he is okay here with the promise of Easter!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

DIY... the mantle candles

In total I spent $4.00 at the dollar tree for two coordinating projects

The first is the EASTER EGG TUTORIAL (complete details)

I wrapped the eggs in tissue with glue and then glittered them to look like this

And then there is the candles...

I had a few emails about the candles on my mantle and while I intended to do a "how to" later this week I decided that I would do one today in case y'all want to make these for Easter!

This is a SUPER EASY project that I was inspired to create by my friend Cha Cha...

I went to the dollar tree and picked up two "church candles"

I had some tissue paper from THIS project leftover

I measured out the paper so that it would go around the candle evenly

Spread on some mod-podge, rolled the tissue paper around, smoothed out the wrinkles and let it dry!

Placed the candle on my candlesticks and tied a bow!

Easy peasy!

So the

Eggs were a buck

The tissue was a buck

Two church candles were a buck each

TOTAL: 4.00!

Categorically Crafting

Monday, March 22, 2010

Our green and white Easter hutch!

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

$4.00 Spring Wreath

In my continuing quest to save money I set out to make a wreath for my front door.

I needed it to be simple, bright and cheery and I needed it to last from March 18 to almost Summer...

I started with a grapevine base (I had on hand) and 4 bushes of tulips from the dollar tree ($1.00 each)

I cut the branches off with a wire snips (if you do not have one.. get one they are wonderful)

I then started to glue the stems in a whimsical way around the base

I used tacky glue and find it to be better for me than hot glue for making wreaths

The glue globs will dry

And here it is all done...

I can't wait to put it on our door!

I love the bright colors

I am choosing not to add a bow... because I like the free flow of the wreath!

Friday, February 26, 2010

Wrapped Candy!

I belong to my library's friends group and every season all members bring in an item for a basket that is chanced off with the proceeds benefiting childrens programs.

Because this was a spring basket I wanted to include some candy but thought just the ordinary boxes were well... ordinary.