This pin by Diane Bockus is stunning! What a beautiful idea for Spring/Easter Decor that will last! This is one of the prettiest silk arrangements that I have seen….using faux tulips & moss in a vintage basket with decorative easter eggs! This will be so easy to recreate! Make it one of your floral centerpieces this Spring for your Easter gatherings!!! Diane has some consistently great pins over on Pinterest as well! Follow her boards!
I love finding cute crafts that can be used as gifts or decor for upcoming holiday parties! This Easter sock bunny is so adorable and would be a great addition to any Easter Basket! We all know anything handmade is wayyy better than anything you could purchase in a store! Follow this great tutorial by craft passion and surprise your little ones with this cute lil’ bunny this Easter!! It comes with a free downloadable pattern!!!
This is a great tutorial from Positively Splendid for a cute, DIY Easter basket for your kiddos, or for Easter Decor…or just to carry around with your bad self!! 😉
Oh, The Curvy Carrot!!! How you have my attention! Whomever came up with the idea to bake delicious candy into a pretzel bed, you are genius! A co-worker fixed a treat similar to this around the Christmas Holidays! It had a pretzel bed, a rolo stacked on top, and a pecan pressed into the melted Rolo….. it was h e a v e n! This is definitely something I will be making for my friends and family this Easter!!! It is a quick and simple recipe and would be great to pack up into little treat boxes to give away to those you love (or want to win over) 😉 😉 !!!!
This is just gorgeous and very easy to recreate! The folks over at Pier One put together this table setting to inspire their customers to put together a festive yet natural Easter Table Setting! Underneath the photo they have items for purchase that will help you pull off this style!!!
I found this pin this morning over on pinterest with a tutorial on how to make your own Burlap Bunny Table Runner this Spring! It even comes with a free bunny template over on Eclectically Vintage! I am in love with Burlap and Bunnies for Spring Decor this year! Check out all the other posts by Electically Vintage while you are at it!!!
I don’t know about you but, I LOVE winning things! I thought I would make our first contest a fun and challenging one! This contest will charge you to get inspired by the budding Spring!!! Find something about Spring that inspires you whether it be Spring blooms, or a bluebird singing, or the Easter holiday, etc. etc. etc! Take a photo of whatever sparks you and craft or bake or stylize something to inspired by your photo! Your inspiration could simply be colors or a special bloom!! Use your imagination and get creating!
For example perhaps I am taking a walk and notice dogwood trees in bloom and I snap a photo of it! I am really craving cupcakes this day and I come up with a Spring inspired cupcake (maybe lavender/blueberry) and pipe some dogwood blossoms on the top with my homemade buttercream! Or perrrrhaps I want to make a small dogwood inspired party display… and I use the colors of the dogwood blossom to stylize my setup! The possibilities are endless! I can’t wait to see what people come up with!
Deadline for entering the contest will be April 1st! The winners will be picked on April 6th and will be contacted to contribute to a feature blog post gushing all about the creative champions of this contest and prizes will promptly be sent out! To enter you must send an email to mysweetsoireetn@gmail.com with your name, website/blog (if any), location (city/state), photo that inspired you and pictures/details about your creation! To get extra brownie points follow me on twitter @mysweetsoireetn and if you can, follow this blog to keep up to date with the contest news!! If you do, just send me your twitter username and if you follow this blog let me know too so I can verify for the extra credit! 😉 😉 You can only enter once and the contest will be limited to residents of the United States!
There will be 3 winners! The First place winner will receive an Easter basket packed with goodies & put together/glammed up by me! The second place winner will receive a small easter basket with pretty awesome goodies & put together/glammed up by me! The third place winner will receive a handmade, spring inspired gift made by me! I will post photos and more details of the swag the closer it gets to the date!! So get some inspiration and get to creating! I look forward to hearing from you!!!
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C
This is so beautiful from countrychiq over on ETSY! Buy a few and tie it in the windows of your main room for some awesome decor that can last throughout the spring!!!!
Who doesn’t love a Cadbury Egg? It’s such an Easter staple! I came across this post by Pizzazzerie! I love the blue icing! Reminds me of a Robin’s eggs! I made a version similar to this last year with the Cadbury Egg opened on top of the cupcake! I think I will try it her way this year with it baked down in to the cupcake! Yum! I can taste it now!
Cakepops!!! so pretty and so easy to do! Don’t get intimidated by the cakepop! Basically all that you do is bake a cake…. let it cool for a few… stick your hands in and crumble it up…add frosting… roll into a ball… freeze…and stick a lollipop stick in and dip it into your candy shell of choice! This is a carrot cake cakepop I did for this Easter season with cream cheese frosting…. I used vanilla candy melts for the shell AND the carrot… just use food coloring to color some of your candy shell mixture orange and green! I painted it on using a lollipop stick and then after it cooled used a knife to make the detail!!!
I present to you the carrot cake cakepop!
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