All posts tagged: Easter crafts

Easter Projects Part 2

  Well, it is Easter Monday (only just I know!) and time for Easter Projects Part 2! It has been a lovely long weekend with hubby and the boys. We have really indulged ourselves doing nothing much in particular, just spending and enjoying time at home with each other and family. We were lucky enough to have a visit from the Easter Bunny and the children, who I must say got up rather too early, enjoyed searching for the foil covered treasures left by him in our garden.  In general though these bank holiday weekend mornings have been easy and everything has just be able to slow down a bit. There’s been lots of lounging too long in pjs, playing with lego, watching films as well as seeing family, making coffee in the machine and Cioccolata Caldo. Yay! With things moving at this more relaxed pace I even managed to do the below in a moment of inspiration. Yes, I rearranged our book shelf by colour! Maybe its not that practical, but ever since first seeing it …

Easter Projects part 1

Inspired by this Pinterest image I decided to create my own version with a little willow wreath I brought from Hobbycraft ages ago and lots of mini chicks I found in Sainsburys Supermarket for a pound. I was going to stick the chicks in place but found that they could be fixed just by poking their little feet under the willow branches, leaving me to update or change the wreath should I wish after Easter. I do like a quick fix project! Crochet projects can be very satisfying to work, but they can take time to complete. Saying that , this morning I did manage to complete not one, but two crochet projects! A friend of mine had asked for two Easter toys, one for each of her children, as alternatives to chocolate eggs. She asked me only last week and needed them by today so I was busy, busy, busy. Here are the results… one tiny mouse with his egg, inspired by this Pinterest image, and … one hatching cutie of a chick, worked from this free …