Easter Egg Basket!

These baskets are adorable, sitting out on the table for the season! They are delicate and a pleasant change from the traditional handled baskets.

Directions are as follows: Take a balloon and blow up to desired size. Mix simple syrup – equal parts water and sugar. I used 2 cups of each. Heat in saucepan until clear. Remove from heat. Add crochet string of desired color to the simple syrup and use spoon to saturate the string. Tie string to balloon end and begin wrapping string around balloon, overlapping until well covered. Hang to dry (about 24 hours.) Be sure to put paper under balloon while it is drying, the syrup will drip. When dry pop the balloon. Decide what you want the bottom to be and push down on hard surface to make a flat spot. Take scissors and cut an oval for opening. Trim edge with ribbons, flowers, small toys, etc.

Easter Basket Cake

This is the best photo I could get from her, but one of my fellow "crafters" has the corner on cakes (You'll see more of her creations when I get her to hand over the photos!)

For Easter, she created this 2 layer white cake, complete with "grass and eggs" and a handle. The handle is not edible. Click the comments link below to see full project details!

Peep Topiary

Nothing says classy like a peep topiary! This creation comes from one of my 'aunt-crafters' who recently visited the Philadelphia Flower Show, and became inspired.

90 peeps were harmed in the creation of this topiary, I feel their death was well worth the sacrifice. How else could you get such a charming and tasty centerpiece!

Easter Basket!

This Easter was my first attempt at live floral arrangement. I went with a pussy-willow-handle basket. As I plan my crafts always on late notice, I could not find any actual pussy-willow the day before Easter. The Basket Handle used here has been created from faux-willow The Small Pot contains 5 bunches of tulips.

It is a beautiful, but somewhat expensive (because of the tulip prices) centerpiece. Next year I will try and plan ahead to get a real pussy-willow handle. If you are interested in he details of the project please post below and I will post the step by step process f creating an Easter Tulip Basket.