The North End Loft: Easter

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Apr 9, 2017

Easy Easter Mason Jar Gifts

Next Sunday my husband and I will be joining our children for Easter dinner at my eldest daughter's home. My two grown daughters have become wonderful hostesses, and we really enjoy having them host some of the ~~cooking and cleaning~~ holidays at their houses a few times a year.

My daughters are age twenty-six and thirty now, but no matter how old they are I always put together little treats for them for the different holidays.

When I went to our local drug store to buy some Easter candy last week, I found some cute mason jar drink containers with straws in the dollar aisle. (They weren't a dollar, they were on sale for a couple of dollars. I don't even know why they call it the dollar aisle anymore because a lot of items there are not a dollar. They should call it the around-a-couple-of-dollars aisle.)

Anyway, I bought one jar each for the girls and their guys along with a few bags of candy. When I got home I found some cute free printable tags over at Clean & Scentsible to tie around the lids. And my Easter mason jar gifts were ready to go!

And that's what I call easy and cute!

And yummy!

I hope you all have a wonderful Easter!

It's a great day for a party!

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Apr 3, 2017

Spring Decor at the North End Loft!

I said it last week, and I'll say it again this week:

HAPPY SPRING, EVERYONE!

I just can't get enough of yellow daffodils, pink blossoms popping out on trees, and big fluffy clouds in the cornflower blue sky.

I'm love, love, loving Spring this year!

And it helps a whole bunch that I can decorate my home again this Spring after my long health hiatus. It felt SO GREAT to sprinkle some seasonal Spring cheerfulness around the house today, and I even had some energy left over to take a few photos.

Life is good!

And I hope it's good for you today, too!

Have a wonderful week!

Let's start the week off with a fab party!

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Mar 22, 2016

Welcoming Spring

Sunny yellow forsythia blossoms are welcoming spring to all of Idaho

this week, just in time for our Easter decorations!

These two piece paper maché eggs will be filled with candy by the Easter bunny on Easter morning.

Read more about my DIY Petter Rabbit banner here.

Happy Spring, everyone!

It's a wonderful day for a party!

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Mar 28, 2013

Friday Finds

The Easter holiday is this Sunday, so on Friday Finds today I'm sharing some of my favorite Easter/Spring pins from my Easter Board on Pinterest.

Be sure to click on the source linked beneath each picture

for great tutorials and more.

A Walk in the Countryside


Marges8's Blog

The Farm Chicks

Home is Where the Boat Is

Better With Age

A Typical English Home

All of these Easter projects can be created in one day, so

it's not too late to have some crafty fun before

Easter Sunday!

Happy Friday!

Mar 26, 2013

Rustic Easter Fantel

Hi, everyone! I hope your week is off to a good start!

Yesterday, I decorated my fantel for Easter by bringing together some things I had around the house and some Easter decorations I made last year.

You might remember these decoupage eggs from last year.

And my little bunny tray.

This bunny bunting was my new Easter project for this year. I made it yesterday.

The Beatrix Potter illustrations are from the pages of this 60 cent thrift store book. I was so happy when I found it a few weeks ago. I copied and printed my favorite bunnies on white card stock, mounted them on script card stock, then glittered them with German glass glitter around the edges and hung them from twine.

The back of this book says that Frederick Warne & Co. is the owner of all rights, copyrights and trademarks in the Beatrix Potter character names and illustrations. The illustrations used for my bunting are for my personal use only.

Illustrations by Beatrix Potter

I don't think there are more charming bunnies to be seen at Easter time than Peter Rabbit and his friends. They remind me of happy times reading to my daughters when they were little girls snuggled in my lap.

You'll find tutorials for the decoupage book page eggs and bunny tray, along with other Easter projects from last year, by clicking on the photo of the Easter tags on my sidebar.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

I hope the rest of your week is just fabulous!

Come join me for lots of fun at these parties!

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May 2, 2012

Shabby Chick(k) Egg #3

I found this post draft today hanging around my blog as unpublished. It's from back around Easter. I decoupaged a bunch of plastic eggs with book pages back then, and they sat around for awhile until inspiration struck. I put a burlap flower on one and called it Shabby Chic(k) Egg #1 (get it? chic....chick?... eggs?) Anyway, I decoupaged a bunny on another and called it Shabby Chic(k) Egg #2, and with the last ones, I decoupaged some bees on them and was going to post them as (you guessed it) Shabby Chic(k) Egg #3. I guess I thought bees were kind of appropriate for spring because that's when they show up around here in Idaho after the cold winter.

Only every time I passed them on my living room table, I'd look down, completely forget that it was me who put these little black things on the eggs, and think eek, spiders! Or flies! Not cute little bumble bees.

Bees: The Graphics Fairy

I think they need those crowns people put over them to tell us they're bees. Not just any bees, queen bees! So I didn't blog them because I didn't want you all to think I'm a completely insane woman who goes around decoupaging spiders or flies (or whatever they look like to you) on eggs at Easter time.

Then one night, after one last heart flip flop when I glanced at them and thought I saw spiders, I took them back into the craft room, turned them over, and decoupaged these butterflies on them.

Butterflies: The Graphics Fairy

So much better! (but heaven help the poor unsuspecting person who picks one up, turns it over, sees the bee that doesn't look like a bee, thinks it's a spider, and runs shrieking from the room.)

Anyway, the butterfly eggs were in my Spring Decorations post, but I never got a chance to call them Shabby Chick(k) Egg #3.

So here you go. They're packed away now in my basement, but what the heck, it's still spring.

I'm just OCD enough to need to finish my Shabby Chick(k) Egg series even though it's too late. At least I didn't wait until Halloween. (But now that I think about it, the bees would have been fine for Halloween! Never mind... )

So I'm all better now that's taken care of. If you actually read this entire post, you should win some kind of prize, but I'm afraid I don't have one handy. Congratulations will have to do.

Thanks so much for letting me get that off my chest. And please do come again. I promise, I really am normal.

Kind of.

Apr 1, 2012

Bunny Tray

This little tray was my very first thrift store purchase with crafting in mind. I don't have a before photo, but it was a small brown scuffed-up tray, and I thought it would be good for holding small items on my craft table. I was surprised how two coats of homemade white chalk paint brought out curvy lines and pretty proportions that I hadn't even noticed before. I liked it so much more after painting it, that I paired it with my favorite vintage bunny drawing from Dream Digital Designs.

Now, it's one of my favorite possessions, and I wouldn't think of parting with it!

You just never know how something from a thrift store can be transformed into something special.

One man's junk really can be another man's treasure!