easter

April 10, 2019 by Kirstin

how to make gorgeous easter eggs

I need to add a quick pause to my Harry Potter Party goodness to share these Easter goodies (you know, before Easter). Stay tuned for more party goodness ASAP.

After our flower-y, beautiful (albeit a bit high maintenance) Easter egg success last year, we decided to take a similar approach to Easter eggs this year.

Except we got smart and grabbed a basketful of reusable chalkboard eggs to use as our ‘base.”

(Piper and I figured that if we were going to cut out all sorts of flowers from magazines and decoupage them to Easter eggs, we’d like to use them for more than one Easter!)

We used the same basic idea as last year’s floral Easter egg masterpieces- cut magazines flowers, decoupaged to eggs, let dry. Gorgeous right!?!

And better yet- ready for years of Easter decorating!
ps- Two posts in one month. Who even am I!?!

March 26, 2018 by Kirstin

chipotle deviled eggs

The best side bonus of dyeing Easter eggs is, without a doubt, the deviled eggs that you get to make to use up all those leftover hardboiled eggs after Easter! And since we got an early start dyeing eggs this year, we’ve already made a couple batches. These chipotle deviled eggs are our favorites so […]

March 21, 2018 by Kirstin

the most beautiful DIY easter eggs

Last year, on the night before Easter, the kids dyed all of our five dozen easter eggs in approximately seven minutes. This made a gigantic mess (so much splashing dye!), and also made my heart so sad (not kidding- even as a small child, I took FOREVER to make my easter eggs look “just right,” […]

March 16, 2016 by Kirstin

loaded oatmeal cookies (with Easter candy!)

We have a little dilemma at the end of each holiday called “What Should We Do with All of Leftover Candy?” Don’t tell my kids, but most times, a good chunk of it gets thrown away. However, after Halloween, I started experimenting with putting the chopped up leftover candy in oatmeal cookies and we all […]

February 18, 2015 by Kirstin

family lent printables

I think I mentioned how much I loved our family advent study a couple months ago. It was super simple, just reading one story each night from the Jesus Storybook Bible and hanging an advent ornament. But it was the first time I felt like our advent countdown has really helped us get our hearts ready […]

February 17, 2015 by Kirstin

easter countdown

I’ve mentioned this before- since Easter is our biggest holiday as Christians, I am always looking to make it a bigger deal around here. This year, I wanted to make an Easter Countdown (kind of like an Advent Calendar). In typical wait-till-the-last-minute form, we finished it up this afternoon. It starts after Ash Wednesday, which […]

March 28, 2014 by Jordan

easter egg decorating ideas

In pursuit of some fun easter egg decorating ideas the other day, I may have spent a little bit too much time perusing the internet. Y’all. There are so many wonderful ideas out there for decorating eggs! I thought I’d pass along some of the ones that I thought were just too cute not to […]

March 27, 2014 by Jordan

no-dye easter egg ideas

This week we have had a gloriously rainy week. In the desert this is not a common thing, so we are LOVING the week of cloudy skies, warm drinks, soup (more on that later) and crafts! My girls have been itching to dye easter eggs since we got a package from some sweet friends back […]

March 25, 2014 by Kirstin

DIY bunny rabbit softies

One of the highlights of my niece Josie’s ‘snow bunny’ party was the array of bunny rabbit softies that dotted the decor. These bunnies would make great Easter basket treasures and were fairly simple to put together (the most labor intensive part was embroidering the faces), so I thought I’d share the DIY process. I […]