Easter Egg Topiaries

I got an email today from a follower who was interested in making the Egg Topiary's I had posted on the blog sometime ago.  I think with moving I have lost all of the "How to" direction pictures, but found pictures of the actual Topiary's in some of my picture files.  I hope seeing the picture's help with anyone wanting to make them.  They are great to have around at Easter and I have used them for years now.   I have to say going thru the pictures makes me miss Minnesota even more.  Have a great day!

 Directions:

Find bases you like

Add a foam cylinder (purchased at Craft Store)

Use hot glue gun to glue into place

Find packages of different sized plastic eggs and feathers from (Craft Store)

Hot glue the Eggs on then Hot glue the feathers on in between the spaces !

There you have it!

As Easy As (Salt and Pepper)...Ha, Ha, Ha

 

   

Succulent Savvy

 Succulent's are not only very popular they bring an updated look to almost any room.  I was at a Tuesday Morning's and came across this beautiful pot for all of $15.00 and decided to make it a Easter dining room table center piece at the time, it was too pretty to put away so I decided to make it a container for succulent's considering the amount of light I have coming in that window.  I lined the container with plastic and placed a saucer in over that, then I added a good quality dirt and topped it  some beauties.  Now, when you walk into the house there is so much drama. 

My Initial Easter container!

A close up of the succulents in the container!

At different angles you can see the different plants!

I just love looking in and seeing the succulents!

Better Yet as I was going thru a magazine I came across this picture and started laughing, here is my container in a kitchen!  I looked up the amount of the pot...It was $150.00!  I SCORED:)

Easter & Spring Things

I hope everyone had a fabulous Easter with all of their favorite, memorable foods and family traditions.  Ours was wonderful this year!  It included amazing appetizers, the main course... which could have fed all of us for a week, plus desserts that should have been published in magazines around the world!  Obviously, with all the cooking that was taking place I had little time to blog but, I thought I could give you an idea or two for next years Easter and up coming Spring Events like, May Day and the Kentucky Derby, which is a great reason to get together with friends.  So... without further a due here is some photo's from our Easter Table, Enjoy!

The Centerpiece is made taking a plain old basket, lining it with moss, and filling with dyed Easter Eggs. (NOTE: Liquid dye seems to make the best colors, never bye the Easter kits!  Just mix liquid colors of your choice with water and add approximately 1 Tablespoon of white vinegar to every cup of dye).  The results Beautiful!

Side view of the Adult table!  So Pretty!  See another use for the Egg Topiaries I spruced up earlier in the month!

Another view of the Easter Table!  It looked so pretty we didn't want to get anything dirty:)

One of the desserts that I made for the Feast was this Lemon Angel Food Cake...Oh ya I'll be posting this to the blog!

The kids table was terrific!  It was everything kids LOVE but, done with a fancy flair!  The centerpiece was a clear container filled with pastel M&M's.  Each plate had a milk chocolate bunny sucker and a chocolate egg...too cute!

If you are wondering why we used dark blue napkins rather than yellow, pink or another Eastery color it was because we knew the kids would destroy a light colored napkin!

This was a last minute purchase that we fixed up by adding Coconut grass colored green and a little fluffy tail with black jelly beans coming out the back (Of course only to amuse the kids, pictured below)!

    My husband played this little joke!  I have to admit it lightened the mood and made us all laugh!