I'm Dreaming of a Green Easter

For their first few years, the Easter Bunny brought my kids buckets, plastic wheelbarrows, and such filled with goodies. Then one year he brought them each a nice wooden basket. We decided to keep these baskets instead of letting the Bunny deliver a new container each year. We shredded used paper and filled them up the night before Easter morning so the Bunny simply added the goodies. They are a permanent holiday feature like Christmas stockings. Using them is also kinda green. We thought it was a sweet tradition but it also happens to keep cheap baskets out of landfills.

Sewing Colored Eggs

I am stitching up some fabric eggs from scraps. I've been hanging on to some small brightly colored and patterned scraps hoping to find a project for them. This egg pattern from retro mama is the perfect use.

The only difference I've made to it is that, once sewn and prior to turning, I neatly squash the bottom point flat and sew directly across it. This is a trick I learned from sewing juggling balls which need some reinforced ends. Perhaps it warrants a photo. I'll take one when I finish sewing the dozen eggs I'm making later today.