A little peek at the new pieces I will be adding to my Etsy store starting tomorrow. Colors inspired by Spring!
Unakite, silver, and pink gold cocktail ring
Unakite, silver, and pink gold pendant
Threesome ring, Peach Moonstone, Carnelian, Grossular Andradite, and silver
Petite cabochon necklaces, Orange Spessartine Garnet and Jardin de Primavera Jasper
Tiny Triangle ring, Wyoming Jade and silver
Happy belated Easter! Did you have a lovely weekend? We had great weather, (anything above 50 degrees qualifies as great in Spring in Chicago.) Little Bug started off Easter Sunday with an egg hunt in the backyard.
I made a simple but yummy meal of roast chicken, roast sweet potatoes, fresh asparagus soup, a chopped vegetable salad, raspberry jello salad, and for dessert, lemon pudding cakes,(recipe here.)
I dressed our table with a runner I made following this tutorial from the Etsy Blog. The flowers I made with tissue paper and floral wire. They are very easy to make and really pretty! I followed a tutorial on the Lillyella blog here as well as this tutorial on the Rust and Sunshine blog. Both approaches make for lovely flowers. (The yellow napkins are from Crate and Barrel.)
Every year on Easter I take Little Bug’s picture. Last year I posted his picture on my blog along with a picture of him on Easter year one. So this year I thought I would do the same thing. It’s fun to see how much he has grown.
Little Bug’s first Easter, 2012, age approx 9 months
Little Bug Easter 2013, approx. 21 months old.
Little Bug Easter 2014, Approx 33 months, (2.75 years old.)
Here’s what we made last weekend!
Aren’t they the cutest? These little boats are really easy to make so I won’t do a step by step DIY. Just melt some candle wax into a half a walnut shell and then stick a toothpick in the wax. You can attach your sail before or after you put the toothpick in. With the fabric sails I glued them onto the toothpick and then stuck it in the wax. For the paper sails I “laminated” them with clear contact paper so they would last for more than one voyage. You can find all kinds of fun ideas for sails online, just google “walnut shell boat.” Also, I found walnuts in the shell in the bulk dry goods section of Mariano’s Grocery store.
I floated these in the bathroom sink with no issues but when I put them in the tub with Little Bug, they all tipped and sank. : ( Not sure why. Too much current?
