Easter with the Maynard Family

Hello and welcome back!

I'm finally recovered from the bronchitis.

I don't have a lot to post, because I was feeling

so bad, I didn't even do any crafting.

We did have a wonderful Easter and had our 
Annual Maynard Family Egg Coloring Contest.
Here are a few pictures of my grandkids and also the

egg contest results.

Marie and Asher all dressed up in their Easter outfits.

Marie got a Jessie dress from the bunny.

Asher got a Woody shirt from the bunny.

Here's Marie with all their Easter eggs.

This year there were only 4 of us that participated

in the egg coloring contest.

Things have been crazy around here.

Kelsie and Sara have been very busy with their business

Clumsy Cloud Gifts (dot com)

Below are the 4 entries.  I posted them on facebook and

people casted their votes.

Sara's "Duo Color Explosion"

4th place

Jaryd's "Pink and Purple Splendor"

3rd place

Marie's "Pretty in Pink and More"

2nd place

Your's truly "Marbled Neutrals"

1st place.

I used onion skins to color my eggs this year.

Onion skins were chopped up,

the eggs were run under water so the skins would

stick to them.
They were then wrapped in pieces of 

knee high stockings and tied closed.

They were place into a pot with water, salt, vinegar

and a little bit of blue food coloring.

Boiled to become hard boiled eggs.

Once they were removed and onion skins were

rinsed off they turned out marbled.

I only had brown onion skins,

but next time I'd like to try multi colored

skins and include some white and red onion

skins.

They were easy to color this way and turned out

great.

Did you color eggs for Easter this year?

Here are winners from past years from our contest.

2023 Marie (age 3 yrs old)

2022 Kelsie

2021 Brad

You can see we didn't have the time to 

decorate like we usually do,

but it was fun anyway.

And now I have bragging rights until next Easter.

Thanks for stopping in today to see what I've

been up to.

I hope you'll come again soon.

Until then,

enjoy spring!

 

Easter Eggs

Hello all you crafty people!

Easter is coming and in our family

we usually have an Easter Egg Hunt.
In the past we have used those little plastic eggs

and put numbers inside that correspond to a 

prize.  The prize is inside a plastic cup that is covered

with tissue paper.  You have to "punch" through the

tissue paper to get your prize.  It could be anything

from candy to some nice squishy jello.
We have a lot of fun with it.
Sara said she'd love to have some reusable fabric

eggs and sent me a picture of them.
So of course, being me, I had to make some.

They were simple to put together and I used 

some fabric that each of us had and scraps that others

from my Buy Nothing Group gave me.

I made my templates in 3 different sizes.

They can be made in any size you want and 

we wanted them to be fairly small.

Here are some of them in the smallest size.

They open in the back to put a little treat inside,

or in our case, a number.

Here are more, you can see that any design of fabric 

can work.  It just needs to be a light weight fabric.

All my fabrics were fabrics that would be 

appropriate for quilting.

They turned out so cute and we can use them over

and over.
They can be used for any kind of goodies in an 

Easter basket also.

Here is the video I used to learn how to make them.

I made my own pattern, but otherwise followed these instructions

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you'll be back again soon.

Until then,

have an egg-cellent day!

 

Easter Cards

Hello and happy spring!

With spring comes Easter

Easter isn't for another month, but if you're making

cards, now is the time to give them a little thought.

Here are a couple Easter cards that I'd like to share

with you.

I made this card for my sweet great niece and 

Goddaughter.  The egg was cut from a piece of 

paper that I colored with my Granddaughter, Marie.

We used food coloring and shaving cream, swirled it

a bit then laid the card stock on the shaving cream.

Once you wipe off the shaving cream you have a 

lovely, marbled look.

We had a lot of fun doing this.

The bunny was hand drawn and cut from another piece 

of the hand colored paper.

Here's a closer picture of my sweet little

bunny.

This bunny and eggs were also made from the

same type of paper as the card above.  

I printed the sentiment inside with my 

ink jet printer before adding the front panel.

This card was made for my great nephew.

I love to try to make him laugh with 

my cards.

Thanks for stopping in today for a visit,

I hope you are having beautiful spring weather

where ever you are.

Come again soon,

until then,

get started on those Easter cards.