Christmas Party Decorations

My friend was part of a board over decorations for a Christmas party. She enlisted our help to make wooden trees and arrange the floral for the centerpieces. It was quite an undertaking. Here are some pictures from our projects:

An Easter Evening Feast

This year for Easter, we invited a lovely couple from down the road who's children live too far away to celebrate Easter with them. They remind me of my grandparents and our kids even call them "Grandma and Grandpa", although they are old enough to be our grandparents as well. It seemed like the perfect time to pull out my grandmother's china and my mom's goblets from Italy. Although, the only really crafty part was the place cards for seating & perhaps the flowers from our garden (I didn't even pipe the deviled eggs because I didn't want to do more dishes), it was fun to take pictures of all of it.

I used hollowed eggs but I bet boiled eggs would work too. 

Starting to set the table.

My husband made the roast.

We choose to do a pound cake for our "shortcake". Baking is a craft too, right?

Floral Wonders and Purple Joy

Our tulips and daffodils are starting to pop up. Not only that but our hydrangeas are starting to shoot and our morning glories are blossoming! We are starting to see signs of early spring and I am so excited! This last spring I absolutely loved making flower bouquets! We moved into a house with beautiful flower gardens and space for it (which we were much in lacking in our previous home). I made vase arrangements for co-workers, family, friends, our "grandma Jack" that lives down the road. I'm so excited to begin making them again.

My husband bought me heather yesterday. It's a beautiful purplish-pink. If we have lots of any color in our garden, it's purple (although it's harder to tell from the arrangements above). My favorite color is purple, especially for flowers and judging by the gardens we moved into, so was the grandma that lived here before us. I've decided we're kindred spirits. I think she probably would have loved this heather too.

A Floral Update

I did this craft in the fall after we had moved in. With a new house, I wanted to do an updated look and this antique teal is one of my favorite colors.

This is the only picture I could easily find, but the vase in the clock is what it looked like previous to our move and 're-doing' it. I love using materials I already have. It feels good to be more material efficient, both for the environment and also financially.

I re-used the vase, accent paint left-over from painting our dinning room,
 as well as the pebbles and styrofoam in the vase.

I also painted this deep red shelf to match the dinning room/kitchen. It's ended up being our apron hooks. 

Haha, her face...