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Eggshell Mosaics…Not.

Posted by christy in Easter | Holidays | Projects - (2 Comments)

I’ve been planning this project for a year. No lie. It’s been on my Google Calendar since April 2009. Eggshell Mosaics. I’ve been wanting to make one forever and have been saving the idea and the post for this Easter. It seems that these past couple of weeks have been disastrous for my crafting. Does this ever happen to any of you? It’s like everything I’ve been touching lately just turns out hideously. I didn’t even bother taking pictures of this project. But, I want to tell you how to make them so you all can put me to shame with your fabulosity.

Did this picture of pretty bowls distract you from the fact I have no pictures of this project?  I took it on my NYC trip at a store in the Flatiron district called Fishs Eddy.  That store was AWESOME.  Okay, back to the project.

1. Dye your eggs.

2.  Crack them and save the shells.  You want to clean them off and pick off any of that egg membrane that might be hanging on there.

3.  Draw an outline of your image on whatever you want to cover.

4. Begin to fill in the outline with your colored eggshells.  Just about any glue will do.  I use Tacky Glue.

5. Finish your design.

6.  Let dry.

7. Apply a thin layer of spray sealant (clear) or mod podge.

8. Admire your lovely work.

Applesauce Bunnies

Posted by christy in Easter | For Kids | Holidays | Projects | Recipes - (0 Comments)

I was sent a little gift from the people at Musselmans.  You know, the applesauce.  Most of the pitches I receive from PR companies don’t quite apply to this here craft blog.  But this one did!  Bonus: my kids love applesauce!  So, here you go…a post about crafting with applesauce.

The box was packed so nicely!  I received two jars of applesauce, one jar of cinnamon, a bunny cookie cutter, a couple of recipes and instructions.*  We decided to make the bunny place holder.  You know those ornaments you make at Christmas using applesauce and cinnamon?  These are one and the same.

You mix 1/2 cup of applesauce with one jar of cinnamon.  This was the beginning of the end for my bunnies.  I put a little too much applesauce in the bowl and never quite recovered from that.  I thought I could make up the difference with flour…which you can, for small amounts.  Let’s just say, you should measure.

The instructions say to mix it up with your hands.  Enter: kids.  My son tried it.  It was really mushy.  *remember to measure*  He didn’t last very long.  But, he did hang around with me and told me I was doing a good job.  I love that kid.

Next you’ll want to roll it out on wax paper.  I took this picture before I added more flour.  It was still too wet.

Cut out your bunnies.  This cookie cutter is really cute.  You can make them any shape you want.  I had some dough leftover and made an egg.  Okay, it looked more like an oval and less like an egg.  I tried.

The instructions clearly say to mix in all the flour so no white is visible.  The instructions mock me as I don’t heed them.  I did follow the instructions and put some cinnamon on the wax paper.

Bake them at 200 degrees for 2 hours.

Once they are cool you can decorate them with glitter, ribbons, etc… and make them super cute.  They are meant to be place card holders but mine are destined for the blog and the blog alone.  They do smell really great.  Maybe I’ll wrap them up like a sachet and put them in my underwear drawer.  Or not.

I hope you all enjoyed this craft adventure.  I’m sure you can learn from my mistakes and put me to shame on this project.  The kids like them and had fun.  But, they like the applesauce even more.  Yum.

We’re going to dye Easter eggs this afternoon.  I hope I can end my string of horrible Easter craft luck.

*I received this product for free from Musselman’s. All content provided in this post is my own opinion.

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Easter Egg Dyes

Posted by christy in Easter | For Kids | Holidays | Projects - (1 Comments)

image via MarthaStewart.com

I just spent 20 minutes cleaning off my table and getting it ready to dye Easter eggs.  I bought some basic dye kits and was going to make them special by adding vinyl stickers to the eggs for some really cool designs.  But, I’ve been out of town for a week and now I can’t find where the dye kits are.  I know where I left them.  I also know I have two kids that kept moving them.  They have no idea where they are either but they are not denying that they moved them.  So… instead of a lame tutorial by me, I’ll show you what Martha did.  Of course, she’s got over the top designs on some but the sheer amount techniques is astounding.

I now present to you, Martha’s gazillion ways to dye an Easter Egg.

Hint:  save those colorful eggshells!  I’m going to show you how to use them in other projects!

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