Green and Orang Hoppy Easter Mantel

Happy Easter...or should I say HOPPY Easter?!

I went a little cray with the HOPPY theme for my Easter decorations.

After I made the Easter Teacher Appreciation gifts for this year, I fell in love with the whole bunny thing. I also happened to become obsessed with using green and orange for my Easter colors.

With my bunny love and green and orange obsession in mind I went to brain storming.

In the middle of that storm my brain settled on something that I was rather giddy about.

I am in love, love I tell you, with the oh-so-popular song by Pharrell Williams "Happy".

My love of this song sparked me to make a printable to go along with my Green and Orange Hoppy Easter Mantel.

Drumroll...

Ta-Duh!

Oh heavens! I really love these clipboard signs. It was one of those moments when I actually felt a bit clever. Just a bit mind you.

A funny little Easter homage to my current favorite song.

Download HERE

I paired my happy...er...uh...hoppy signs with a lot more green and orange, including some tissue pom poms. I do love my tissue pom poms.

I also am a big fan of decorating with candy, because well, duh I LOVE candy.

Another thing I love, giant kelly green bunny art. Now I haven't always been in love with giant green bunnies. That is new.

Thanks to this.

He sits there rather jollily.

I also added in these ceramic bunny garden stakes to some IKEA fake grass. I found these sweet little bunnies at Target. I simply spray painted them orange to fit into my green and orange theme.

Then it seemed best to throw a carrot printable in. Ya know the whole bunnies like carrots and carrots are orange and green thing seemed to fit.

So I created these simple carrot prints using PicMonkey. Then I put them up with some green washi tape next to my giant green bunny.

Download HERE

There ya have it. My whole green and orange obsession right there in one Springy and festive place.

I hope you enjoy my bit of spring and Easter.

I hope you enjoy these printables...especially my little ode to Pharrell Williams' HAPPY. 

Thanks for reading!

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Easter Teacher Appreciation Tags: Thirty Handmade Days

 My April project for Thirty Handmade Days include these really magical and ridiculously cute Marshmallow Peep Bunnies. Could you die?

I did. Then I pulled myself together. Then I may have bought a whole bunch so I could give them away as an Easter Teacher Appreciation. I made a cute little tag using PicMonkey with an appropriately cheesy saying on it. I also made a non-teacher tag in case you want to just let a special someone know that some bunny (that would be you) thinks they are special.

Both tags are available to download over at Thirty Handmade Days.

Head over and download these tags and say hi!

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In a Nutshell: Spring Break

I haven't posted an In a Nutshell post in a really long time.

I hope you will indulge me in sharing an itty bitty bit of our recent Spring Break.

We had a great time spending time as a family. The boys especially loved having Gram and Papa here. Just after that their favorite part was of course being out of school.

We made a trip to the library, where of course the books of choice were those about dinosaurs and dinosaur poop.

We flew kites that Gram and Papa brought. The weather was especially windy that day. They boys frantically ran back and forth in one direction trying to stay with the wind and keep their kites up.

We made our way to our local farming store and visited the chicks, ducks, and bunnies. They were super cute and looked really fluffy. We will never know though because there was no holding allowed.

So we just "awed" from the other side of the glass.

Toward the end of Spring break week it was time to get ready for Easter.

We made sugar cookies. We made funny faces. We ate cookie dough. We colored Easter eggs. Some of us in sweet muscle tees. The Easter Bunny hid our eggs and we went on a hunt to find them.

Bean very patiently shared his time with all the other siblings. He wasn't quite sure about what to do with them around all week. However, he did eat up all the attention he got from his brothers and his grandparents.

We also celebrated Little's birthday.

We celebrated with presents and balloons. We celebrated with kisses, hugs, and ice cream cake.

He didn't see the need to use silverware. After all it is his birthday, so he shouldn't have too.

Spring Break ended with Easter Sunday.

We dressed up all our Little Men for Church. Aren't they handsome?

 

We had such a great week. I feel blessed to have had our little family all together for so much of the week. I am one lucky wife and Momma.

Simple Easter Decorations

I finally put up some Easter decorations.
 

I love these blue/green colors. I also love the simple pop of pink.

 

I was inspired by the new line of paper and elements by American Crafts, Dear Lizzie Fifth & Frolic (now available at JoAnn's). The line features refreshing and crisp blues, greens (which I obviously LOVED), pinks and yellows.

There is also absolutely delightful glitter paper.

The paper inspired several projects, including some much needed Easter decorations.

I used my Silhouette to cut out a lot of bunnies in the blues and greens and one in pink.

With the help of Mr. Elmer, I attached my bunnies to a blank canvas.

I spaced them out "evenly", or as "evenly" as I could eye ball. 'Cause that is how I roll.

I also cut out some 1/2" strips.

I glued them to a piece of cardstock paper.

On the back of the cardstock I drew an Easter egg shape.

Then I cut it out. I flipped it over and it gave me a lovely stripped egg.

I put it in a handy dandy frame from Ikea.

I had some leftover scraps of the strips, so I started punching out circles from the scraps and from another piece of pink paper.

I sewed them all together to make a little banner.

Now I have a little spot befitting a little Spring festiveness.

I have another project using this paper that I am excited to show you next week sometime if I can get my act together between two birthday parties and Easter. A sweet and lovely girly project. The kind of project I don't often get to do in this house full of boys.

Thanks for reading!

Have a fabulous day.