A bouquet of lavender leaves and rosemary flowers.
These precious hands {Hannah} held a sweet and simple herb bouquet for Mother’s Day. Clay pots that were once filled with dried herbs and lavender have new purposes as containers for fresh herbs. To see and photograph my children holding and preparing these bouquets were as much of a gift as it is to receive them.
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This was my first attempt at dyeing Easter Eggs using natural ingredients. The resulting color palette was a lovely pastel shades of green, blue, and cream.
After browsing through the internet and reading about the different ingredients, I decided to use what I had available which were frozen blueberries, frozen spinach, and red onion. At the end of the experiment, I became quite discourage at the outcome of the colors the eggs took on, not at all the expected colors I thought. The blueberries made pink eggs…the spinach had no effect on the eggs… and I actually liked the soft pink from the red onion. After I saw the outcome, I left the eggs to dry and went off to do other things. About an hour later I came back and discovered the color transformation of my eggs {see above picture} and the excitement I had about this project came back.
I dyed a second batch of eggs to share the results with you. Depending on the length of time the eggs were submerged in the liquid will effect how deep the colors will be. Included in three of the pictures below are the egg color progressions, from the first minute they came out of the liquid to about an hour later.
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Spring is officially here and in a few weeks we will be celebrating Easter.
Finding the Easter basket on Easter morning is a tradition my kids look forward to-even now as teenagers. In each of their baskets {similar to the one in the picture above} there will be sweets, chocolates and a little something special. To personalize their baskets this year, I’ve created tags with this adorable French rabbit from The Graphic Fairy.
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Love is… unconditional, enduring, believing, caring, and something we can’t be without.
This is one of my favorite verses from the Bible… “faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” When apostle Paul wrote about love in the Bible, 1 Corinthians 13, is as relevant today as it was then. What is love? It never fails, it endures through eternity, and without love, there is emptiness. God is love.
Sweet little gifts of M&M’s candies packaged in pink/white tissue paper for Valentine’s Day.
For the past few years the kids and I would fill these clear, long, skinny bags with M&M’s chocolate candies {pic above}, seal them, attach Valentine messages, and give them out to their friends. Simple and fun. For this Valentine’s Day, I decided to do it again and add the gift wrapping step for a pretty presentation.
