Pastels and Egg Shells: Part Two

One week till Easter, and 3 more Easter inspiration ideas to share. We actually celebrated with one side of our family yesterday, so we've already experienced some of the greatness that Easter has for us! If ham, potatoes, asparagus, and delicious citrusy Spring desserts aren't enough for you. Here are some more ideas to inspire your Easter celebration. 

Spring basket cookies are definitely my kind of Easter treat. 

These eggs are paper mache, which seems a lot easier to me! Plus you could paint them and then pack them somewhere safe for next year. I've also read that you can buy paper eggs at craft stores like Michael's if paper mache doesn't sound like your idea of a good time.

This really made me want to make a chalkboard to lean against the wall in our living room, it could be updated to add a backdrop to mantle decorating. 

What are your Easter plans? We'll be celebrating 2 more times, once on Friday with my cousins and again on Sunday with Philip's family. What a beautiful season! Now we just need this snow to melt so that we can feel Spring in more than just our hearts. (Although snow melting has its downsides too...our gutted bathroom has been experiencing a light shower through the ceiling into some buckets). Ice dams anyone?

Pastels and Egg Shells

Easter is a mere 2 weeks away, and for us it even seems to be coming sooner because a few of our most key family members are going to be on vacation over Easter so we'll be celebrating early with both sides of the family most likely. Pinterest is especially thrilling around holidays I've found, all of the pumpkin flavoured desserts and wreath DIYs around Christmas...and now Easter, with hip new ways of egg dying and Easter mantels. I didn't know people decorated so much for Easter! This year our house is definitely too crazy to host any kind of Easter gathering, but maybe next year. In browsing the internet for ideas, I definitely wanted to get an Easter centerpiece going! Maybe something like this...

Here are some of my favourite Easter decor ideas I've come across lately.

Martha Stewart shows these beautiful egg ornaments, so elegant for Easter eggs!

One day when we have a frame gallery in a hallway somewhere, it'd be neat to switch out some of the pictures seasonally, and at Easter I like the look of this. 

These cute Easter eggs to use in an Easter advent are such a cute idea for kids. I would even think about doing 40 of them as a Lent/Easter countdown activity with tasks we can do as a family along the lines of Lent. 

This article on Real Simple explains some of the Easter traditions
we've come to know and love. 

If you're hosting an Easter dinner, what a cute way to fold napkins! 

What are your Easter plans? Ours is a little bit non-traditional this year so far, my parents will be away as will Philip's brother and his wife, so we're having a Friday night Easter games night with my cousins, and potentially having lunch with our friend and his dad. We'll also have Easter with Philip's family but that isn't planned yet. Is Easter a big deal in your household? As Christians, it's one of our major holidays, but my family hasn't always had a huge celebration dinner. As kids we went to my grandparents and had an Easter egg hunt, but as we've gotten older and everyone has their own families it's kind of fizzled out. Glad my sister is planning something though because it's always nice to spend the holiday's with family, maybe we can even relive our days as small kiddo cousins where we'd have an older cousin teamed up with us helping us to find the eggs in the yard to fill our ice cream pails. Those were the days. 

Next Monday we'll share a few more Easter themed ideas as we countdown the days to a beautiful Spring and Easter celebration.