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Decorating Plastic Eggs

Just in case you want to decorate a tree with eggs, here are the steps to making it happen. :-) All you have to do is double-click on the photos to enlarge if needed. If you don't want to hang these eggs on a Christmas tree that might still be in place, just take a walk and find a nice tree branch, spray paint it white (makes the eggs look better) and secure it in a large pot. I enjoyed decorating the eggs but it took me all Sunday afternoon to do it. It was worth it. I like the look and now I can pack them away on Monday after Easter and they'll be ready to hang come next year when my Christmas tree is still on my front porch just before Easter!

That quilt show post is coming up soon. Maybe later today or Saturday for sure..........

Sandi :-)

Can I fool you?

and make you think it's still Christmas?...........

Well, as of yesterday, all my garland and outdoor Christmas decorations were still hanging along the porch railings and decorating this tree so it still looked like Christmas. In January, it was too cold and snowy to remove it all. Then in February, the snow and cold continued and I decided I would leave it 'til Spring and then take it down. Spring has been here since early March but I still never took the time to take down the Christmas garland.

Then last weekend, I told my husband I would finally remove it all but that I was going to leave the tree and decorate it with eggs. He just nodded. Didn't even give me a strange look or anything. :-) Then I had to decorate the eggs, so I spent last Sunday afternoon glueing bits of flowers and ribbons to plastic eggs. I took some pictures as I did it and will share a little tutorial on how easy it is to do. I'll post the tutorial on Friday morning. I topped off the tree with a bunny that my mother crocheted several years ago (I think it's a toilet tissue cover) and my Christmas Tree was transformed into Easter Delight. LOL!

Have a good day! ........No foolin' :-)

Sandi

One last Easter egg to share......

and it comes from my swap partner, Kathy in the Spring Egg Swap that I hosted on my Yahoo Wooly Buddies Group. Those who signed up to participate were sent the little pattern I designed for 16 different Easter eggs (they're the ones on my Easter egg trees). The pattern was for making an egg pin that is smaller than those shown on my Easter egg trees so this was a challenge to sew such tiny pieces. Some members really rose to that challenge and created some lovely little Easter pins. You can see that Kathy found the perfect little piece of white wool for the sheep on the pin she made for me. Then she stitched lots of little French knot flowers!!

And then she made me a larger egg with my name on it and I have it hanging on my sewing room door now so that if you were to come upstairs you would know ...... that's Sandi's sewing room! :-) She also packed in some goodies and that lovely fat quarter in that pretty little box. I've thanked her more than once but I'll say it again - Thanks, Kathy!

If you want to learn more about working with wool and/or woolfelt and making penny rugs and other projects just click here and you can join our Wooly*Buddies group. It's a fun group!

That's it for Easter this year. There's only one chocolate egg left but there are a few Easter cupcakes in the freezer that my grandson can enjoy when he comes over this next weekend. I'm thinking it's time to start thinking tulips, gardening, quilting friends, and my daughter's birthday which is coming up this weekend! There's a fun weekend in store so I'll be sure to share pictures and stories. :-)

I took the blocks for Emma's quilt down to the post office today so that I could show them to Connie, Emma's grandma. There are a lot of blocks and I am thinking there will be enough to two quilts, one large and one smaller. I've received word that at least three packages with blocks are in the mail and heading my way. I had planned to lay out the blocks today but will wait til the end of the week as the last of the blocks should arrive by then. Thank you to all of you that have shared blocks for this project. I will post pictures of the quilt tops as soon as I get them done. The quilting will be done in May and then the fund-raising event is May 30th.

One last thing........I have spent a lot of time in recent days fiddling with computer problems and hopefully new virus software will help some issues I was having. We also had an intermittent internet issue (plus loss of phone service and weak cable signal) which was resolved this afternoon by a Mediacom technician. I think. :-) Anyway, the technician was very thorough and took his time to troubleshoot the problems I described and everything seems to be working fine now!

Have a lovely Spring day today!

Sandi

The Real Egg

No plastic eggs here.........these are the real thing!!

I've shown you my miniature Easter Gift Boxes (previous post), but before I made those I made a lot of scenes in real eggs. I was in my early 20's when I decorated the eggs for my first egg tree. Still have all those little egg baskets made from half an eggshell and covered in gingham, then filled with flowers, chicks and bunnies to hang on the branch I gathered in the woods. I also made lots of covered whole eggs like the ones seen in these photos. Sometimes I painted them and sometimes I covered them with fabric. By cutting the fabric on the bias you can get a good fit around the egg. Adding an oval of fabric at the back and then glueing trim around it will hide all your seams. I always have odd bits of jewelry (never throw away earrings that are missing their mate!) and trims that I can use to embellish the eggs. The eggs pictured above were made in the late 1970's.

I still make decorated eggs occasionally but usually as gifts for friends or family. I have a whole box full that are ready to go as gifts to my friends for Christmas next year! The last time I sold any was years ago when my doctor at the time, learned what I had made and ordered almost two dozen for gifts for his friends and family. :-)

That's all for the Easter Eye-Candy for today. I'll see you next week.

It's church in the morning and then we are going to Arlington Haus for brunch. The food there is really good. Can't wait. As much as I enjoy cooking, I love it when someone else cooks!! :-)

Have a blessed Easter filled with JOY!!

Sandi