Easter Egg Wreath

 

Today I am linking up for a party at Just a Girl for a little Show and Share Party and Becky  at Beyond the Picket Fence for 100 Ideas for under $100.00 and Madison at Somewhatsimple.    I made these last year in mass quantities and decided I would make no more, however the bug got me, along with a couple of friends who didn't get one last year so I pulled out all the makins' and here we are. Please join Just A Girl 

for Show and Share Party,   Becky at Beyond the Picket Fence, Madison at Somewhatsimple for some wonderful ideas. 

I saw this process on a post last year, but I don't remember whose, so sorry I couldn't give the credits. But it is fun, easy and there is very little cost in them so a person could just make them as tossables after the Easter is over. 

The fun thing about this is you can use any colors, make them with any size eggs and decorate them with as little or as much fluff as you like. 

My supply list. plastic eggs, any size or several sizes, ribbon, grass, hot glue, (oops forgot to show that but you will see that in a later photo), cardboard, and a pencil.

I cut a 12" circle using a plate as my template, make a mark 2" in and draw another circle and then cut with a sharp knife. It does not have to  perfect and I use my dinner and salad plates for template. I then tie a small piece of ribbon at the top for a hanger and make two pen marks where I don't want to glue eggs.

The next step is to hot glue your eggs, butts together starting from one pen mark and going to the next. This is pretty simple, you can make a pattern or not, I don't because it would upset my anal self to have it not work out perfectly in the end. :)

It takes about 48 eggs to make it nice and full. You can also use the little small ones to make it fuller or the really large ones to make a BIG wreath.

Before adding the second layer of eggs I hot glue some grass in between the eggs. It just takes care of few of the empty spaces and makes it look fuller.

Did I mention the hot glue? Please be careful when shoving the grass in between those eggs or you will get this.

OUCH! I ended up with 3 huge blisters by the time I was done. 

Almost done, just have to add a second layer of eggs at random on top of the first layer, Poke a little more grass in the empty holes and...........

And........your done. Total cost for this project under $10.00
Two bags of eggs @ $2.00 each = $4.00
One bag of grass @ $1.50 = $1.50
1 roll of ribbon @ $3.00 = $3.00
Misc. items such as glue and cardboard I found in my cupboard.

  

One down........many to go!

I am not sure why I do this to myself but it seemed like fun. I found this Heidi Markish design last year and didn't buy it because I was too busy to work on it, but this year I thought it would be fun to get it and involve my friend Satch into making one with me. UM let's see 16 stuffed heads later...........I finally got one done for me. I just need time to do the last five or six. But isn't he cute?

Jaxon's Quilt

Look, Look What I Did! Ok this really isn't a quilt - it's a panel with trim put around it BUT for me it was a HUGE project. What should have taken about 4 hours to make took about 10. My mentor, Becky, assures me that it wasn't my fault that the material stretched and the quilting machine messed up but.......we all know that me behind a sewing machine is an accident waiting to happen. I made this for Jaxon's birthday (a little late I'm afraid) but gramps said "no more toys" - so what's a gramma to do? I saw this little lap quilt or wall hanging or whatever it is in Rapid City on our fall ride and I just knew it would be fun to sew.



I love how bright and colorful it is.



The inside panels were all witchy and pumkiny. OK that's not a word but you know what I mean.



Can you see the quilting? I love Becky's quiltiing machine and once she put on some good ole' cowpoke music It was really easy to sway the machine and quilt.





The back shows the quilting a little better, it's pumpkins. Can you see the design. I loved the back too, with all those eyeballs. Hope it doesn't scare him.