It's been a long, long time since I've posted anything on here. Just after Cup Day last year I started back working full time again and I am not too sure where the last 5 months have gone.
With the school holidays having just started it's brought my mind to Easter. As with most things in our family we tend to perhaps go a little overboard (as you can see even Ted and Barney got in on the action when mum made them their own Easter Bunny costumes). I'm not sure how much time I'm going to have this year, but thought I'd share what I put together for the kids last year.
We face this dilemma every year - Easter to kids is ALL about chocolate. Whilst I didn't want to deprive them of the joy that is Easter eggs, by the time the Easter Bunny has visited and gifts (who are we kidding, more Easter eggs) are given by both sets of grandparents and aunts and uncles I was hoping to keep the chocolate content down with our gift. So from the time I saw these cute little bags on Pinterest I decided they would be perfect.
They were super easy, and I was able to make the three of them on Easter Saturday afternoon with the football on the TV. I'd gone to Spotlight earlier in the day to buy the felt and some fat quarters for the inside of the ears. If I had a collection of scrap bits of material like mum does, it wouldn't have cost me anything. The hardest part of them was remembering how to do stem stitch for their eyes. I then used the sewing machine to join the back and front together.
I used the same template to make some little Santa sacks as gifts for O's carers last year, but instead of using normal thread I bought one specifically for decorative stitching, which I think looked much better.
I did end up filling them with far more eggs than I initially thought I would (they are deceptively roomy) so we ended up with the usual sugar overload, but isn't that what it's all about?
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