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Easter Hanging Butterflies
Easter hanging butterflies for my Easter tree
On a recent trip to the New Covent Garden Market in London I spied a massive box of clear acrylic butterflies. I had bought similar looking maple leaves just before Christmas and had loved how they looked after a lick of white paint and some baker's yarn. I knew I had to purchase some of the butterflies with the view to paint them in pink and blue to match my Easter Palette.
I love how they turned out and now I need to get on with making this year's Easter Tree to hang them on.
Easter Hanging Butterflies
What you will need:
14 Acrylic butterflies
Pink frosted glass beads
Blue frosted glass beads
28 green wooden beads
Mono filament 0.23mm
Flamingo Fun pink paint
Blue paint
Instructions
- Wash butterflies in warm soapy water and leave to dry
- Paint seven butterflies in pink (I did three coats) and leave to dry
- Repeat with remaining butterflies in blue and leave to dry
- Cut 20 cm of mono filament
- Thread mono filament through hole in centre of butterfly and tie in a knot
- Thread three beads in alternating colours down both ends of thread, and push below knot
- Thread ten beads in alternating colours, finishing with one green bead down each side
- Knot ends
Last year's Easter Tree hung with hand painted eggs and bunnies
2009's Easter tree hung with hand made felt Easter birds
Have a sweet day!
This week I'm grateful for... engaged strangers
What on earth is an engaged stranger, you ask? Someone you don't know who is about to get married?
Nope.
This week I'm grateful for...
115. Engaged strangers - those lovely people here and there that acknowledge the world around them and make outings with children just that little bit easier. The tough guy at the supermarket who pulled funny faces to amuse The Badoo at the checkout. The kind people who wave and smile back when my extra-friendly son says "hello Big Person, do you like Harry Potter too?" (and, really, who are all those people who just keep on walking past him with a frown? Who are you?). The lovely lady who gave Cappers a little sweet* at the newsagency (it wasn't that kind lady's fault that World War Three instantly broke out because "she got something and I didn't"). Yes, those kind of engaged strangers. I love 'em.
116. Homecomings - LOML comes home tonight. Woot!
117. Leggings - this time of year, I'm living in them. Actually, I'm kind of into them all year 'round. I don't even care that they are sooooo yesterday; I've got a feeling they are always going to be my tomorrow staple. And don't worry, I'm all about the skirt over the top!!
* You can tell me off for letting my daughter take a sweet from a stranger if you like... but we do have a rule that they are only allowed to talk to a person they don't know if Mum or Dad are with them... it goes okay. I'll write a post on the whys and hows soon.
So, what's making you smile today? Add your I'm Grateful For post to the list below (and please, we love you, but it really does matter that your post is a Grateful one and not just a random), add the button (grab the code from my sidebar and paste it into your post) and pretty-please add a link back to me. Then pop over to visit other bloggers who are spreading a little sunshine.
Happy weekend to you!
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friendship and flowers...
This week I got to catch up with two of my closest friends. One is in the middle of a 10-month work secondment based in Paris (lucky duck) while other is in the middle of that feeding, burping and nappy changing routine ever present in the early months of parenthood. Goes without saying that it was wonderful to see them both, along with the beautiful new bub...even though I forgot the camera ...twice :)
Hope you all have a great weekend and get to share it with the people you love.
It's Friday
Hello Everyone - I hope you have had a great week. School holidays here and I have been hit with a nasty flu for most of the week - not great timing!
On a bright note however the Autumn weather we are having this week here in Sydney is nothing short of spectacular. Being my birthday month it also means my local florist sent me some great birthday vouchers so I headed in for a pick me up - flowers in the house always brighten me up.
The crystal clear skies also meant we could see the ships on their way out of Sydney Harbour from our bedroom balcony - such a gorgeous city to live in.
Exciting news also on the Circle of Moms Top 25 Party Plannin Moms front - I made it in to top 25 which I am thrilled with - thank you to everyone who voted for me - your support was amazing. The final 25 will be featured on a new mom resource The Roundup and all the blogs will be showcased here over the coming weeks.
I am still taking orders for stamps (if you would like to know more about the stamps check here) - if you get your order in this weekend they will be out to you next week.
Have a lovely weekend everyone and I will see you all next week.
A few nice days
Afterwards we stopped for Rita's ice cream... of course...and I tried their new peanut butter chocolate ice (with chocolate custard!)...delish!
Today was another nice day. Though most of it I spent inside at work I did manage to venture out for a little bit afterwards with Roxy. I gave her a bath then let her sun dry on a long walk.
I'm looking forward to more sunshine filled days like these!!
.Deck-The-Halls
One of the prettiest Easter boutiques at The Country Living Spring Fair was Deck-The-Halls.
Deck-The-Halls was started by Paula on the kitchen table 10 years ago. In her words: "It was a weird start as my father died unexpectedly on Christmas day, only 6 weeks after my son was born so we did not really celebrate Christmas and I found it hard to put it away that year. I started making Christmas decorations and friends were asking me for them. I decided to see if they were just being nice by taking them to local shops, who then placed orders. I started exhibiting at Country Living Christmas 2005 where we won the editor's choice for the best stand and the rest is history!"
Paula now works full time on designing and making the collection with her husband and sells to shops including Liberty’s.
Have a sweet day!
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