Easter makes

I love decorating the house up for  Easter and Christmas and have become more and more interested in  handmade decorations rather than the shop bought mass produced decorations I used to favour. Whilst there’s absolutely nothing wrong with shop bought decorations I get such a buzz from making my own and seeing them in pride of place around the house. A few weeks ago I’d hung up the plastic eggs I had but they didn’t bring me quite as much joy as usual, I wanted to make some of my own but wasn’t sure how. I tried sprucing up plastic eggs a couple of years ago with sticky ribbon and stick on gems but they didn’t last and the sticky bits fell off. This year I wanted to do something different. Imagine my delight when I found a kit in a local shop with wooden eggs to cross stitch. It took me 3 nights to complete all 6 eggs but was well worth it, I just love how they turned out…

I bought some fake pussy willow branches to hang them on and displayed them in the hall…

Whilst I did love it, it just didn’t look complete, I wanted something else to hang on the branches too. Watching little miss making shapes with her giant Hama beads, the idea came to me, I could make decorations with the tiny Hama beads that I had in my stash from a Hama bead phase I went through about 10 years ago. These were the first ones I made…

Then, on Good Friday, Mr O had a bad back and was struggling to move so he decided to sack off the gardening he’d planned to do,join us on our Hama bead session and made us each an egg with our initial on…

 

Between us we made a few more…

I’m very pleased with how it all looks and they now have pride of place in the hall (pictured on kitchen table for lighting purposes). A real family effort! However, I am quite pleased that little miss found the tiny beads a bit too tricky so decided to stick to using her own maxi sized ones. It means that my beads are safe…for the time being anyway!

In other Easter makes I made these eggs with little miss by simply winding thread around a cardboard egg.

And then of course there was the obligatory Easter cake.

(sorry about the rubbish picture, we’d actually eaten some of it before I remembered to take a picture, plus the light was bad. The cake however, tasted delicious!!)

I had been looking forward to making this for weeks as it reminds me of Easter at home when I was little. Looking back I think I was actually more interested in eating the left over mini eggs than I was in actually helping to decorate the cake, hehe, some things never change!!

Karen x

 

These are about A5 paper size but I’m thinking smaller eggs with very thin thread may work as hanging Easter ornaments too…maybe an idea to store away for next year.