Hosting my Craft Group Friends ~ Easter Crafting ~ 🐰🐣🐥

Greetings lovely friends & readers

In my dining-room today a freshly picked jug of hydrangeas, just starting to turn autumnal colours  ...  & Sid's artwork hanging above.

 

Sid has gone on a 3 week holiday with his parents but he gifted me this handmade card & chocolate bunnies before he left.  He tells me its an Easter Taco  (!!)

It was my turn to host the craft group ladies on March 30th for some Easter crafting.  I'd spent time on Pinterest looking for projects & what appealed to me were the 2 images above.  I was looking for simple projects that we could complete & also trying to use up supplies already on hand.

A week prior I sat & made up my version of the "Nest peat pot" & then I did a painted version too, thinking the ladies could choose which one they would like to create.  I sat & dry brushed some peat pots so they were already painted.  

I like to set my table just a little bit special when I host the ladies so I went with an Easter theme, made chocolate cupcakes again & used Dee's basket from my last post as a centerpiece.  It was certainly a chocolate overload but we had a delicious morning tea & lunch.  

I'd had to send to Temu for the wooden discs to make the bunny faces, so I'd also ordered Easter paper serviettes, Easter cupcake wrappers & a pack of 4 sweet wooden bunnies that were a hanging ornament.  I set each place setting with these as a wee gift.  The ladies were just delighted.  🐰

At Christmas my friend Shirley had told me about TV frame art on YouTube ... so I searched for Easter TV frame art & found this stunning picture, which you can get for your TV - completely free.  A shame there's no music to accompany this but it was very eye catching & looked so real & lifelike.

Though our group was only 4 in number we had a most enjoyable day.  We made the peat pots in the morning, stopped for lunch & then made the wire bunny plant pokes. 

I found this tutorial on Instagram.  I'll put a link * here * but am unsure if you need to be on Instagram for the link to work.  These are made using the center of egg cartons as their dresses, were honestly just the sweetest little things & I would love to make a group of these bunnies.  

* Here * is the Pinterest link to them.

One of the ladies Sharlaine, gifted me this wonderful Pinocchio.  She had purchased him thrifting but decided she no longer had a place for him & offered him to me.  I just adore him & he will be stunning at Christmas time ... I may have to make a wee setting for my Pinocchio.

The next day while I still had all my supplies out, I made this terracotta pot egg, it's a polystyrene egg decorated with a transfer & I've given it a few coats of varnish.  I'd seen this on Pinterest too but can no longer find the image.

I wanted to make up a gift for our Rural Delivery lady.  She gives us free newspapers when she has any left over & is just such a kind person all-round.  I took one of the leftover painted peat pots, mod-podged the paper serviette onto it, coated again with mod-podge to seal it  .  .  .  .  .  .

.  .  .  .  .  .  filled it with shredded paper & choccy eggs & then tied it all up with cellophane.  Such an easy but effective small gift at Easter time.  She was thrilled & left me the sweetest note in my letterbox.

                                              This is especially for You dear Willie ...

 Blackie, our eldest cat, is going through a phase of returning to his feral ways - he does this from time to time. 

 He must be 13 or 14 now, was wild for quite sometime before I bought him inside & tamed him (tried to) 

 He sleeps along the fence line in the paddock & every night I am out there with my torch looking for him.  I no longer call him as he ignores me/is deaf, but I walk along 'til I find him, pick him up & bring him inside for the night. 

 The other night I could not find him & had to leave him outside all night.  Next morning when I did my usual walk here he is tucked into the undergrowth with "a (quite dead) friend" - perhaps its Easter bunny ??  Considering he's older now & by the way he walks, has joint pain - he must still be able to run fast to catch rabbits.  

Wishing you a wonderful peace-filled Easter celebration dear friends - do you have plans?  I'd love to hear them if you feel like leaving me a comment.               

 Ours will be quiet as The Mr is in full autumn calving mode.  I have firewood to stack, hens to feed for friends, & - hopefully - a rabbit to sew.  

Sending much love & friendship to you all,