Eggcellent times!

Well in my last post I promised you all photos of this year's noodle boxes for the girls, and amazingly I remembered! While on last year's boxes I used pre-made die cuts for embellishments, this year I made a couple of them myself. Using patterned paper, Spellbinder die cuts (circles/scalloped) and simply layering with foam dots to add dimension, I was able to achieve pretty little decorations (well I think so, hehe).

Easter Sunday morning Bec and Caitie came over for her egg hunt and morning tea. Before church in the morning Dad made a batch of the most yummiest scones! They were so divine and simply melted in your mouth. After, Miss C went-a-hunting and was thrilled with the delights she found. Amazingly after it was all finished she chose the 2 purple eggs and handed me the basket with the remaining eggs saying "Helly's eggs".

I will return soon with the next installment of my PAD pics, but until then happy Tuesday... well Wednesday now!

H xxx

Eggstra Special Times

So Easter has come and gone again! Right now I'm nursing a rather sore belly as I have consumed more than a lifetime's supply of chocolate eggs, hehe. This year we celebrated this special time with some of our closet friends who came around for a BBQ. There was food for a feast of thousands, more chocolate than we knew what to do with, but most of all a lot of fun! It was such a blast watching my 'adoptive' nieces hunt for the hidden eggs and see the glee in their faces when they found the loot.

(The Loot - being attacked by Miss C)

Now if you remember in my last post you caught a glimpse of my "Easter-Egg Tree"... As promised here are a couple of pics of it in full glory. It took pride of place on the mantle piece this Easter and was accompanied by the girls annual noodle-boxesI found the bunnies at Bed, Bath 'n' Table and thought they were too cute to leave behind.

(The "Egg-Tree")

(Mantle Shelf - Check out my bunting!!!)

(Cute Bunny - How could I not give them homes?)

Just to show that some scrapping has taken place in recent times here is a close up of each noodle-box... I also made the bunting using fabric by the ever beautiful Heather Bailey (you can buy some yourself here).

Anyhoo, my bed is calling and I have lovely work tomorrow - 12hrs and I'm still nursing another chest infection, what fun!? Hope all of you had a lovely Easter and spent it with those that are special to you. Hope this little post has also given you inspiration to make fun events just that little bit EGGstra special, hehe.

Enjoy!

H xxxxxxxxxxxx

Father's Day Gift

As most of you would know it was Father's Day Yesterday. This year I wanted to give my dearest Papa something a bit different and special from the usual shirt and tie combo. So I set about creating him a book of ten reasons I love him so much. I used a basic chipboard board book and Kaiser Craft Papers and Bazzill cardstock. Embellishments were a mix of things I had in my stash including Basic Grey felt stickers and chipboard alphabets. Sorry the pics aren't the best... today's been rather grey and not that conducive to taking nice snaps. Hope you like it anyway. I know one or two tears were shed yesterday when it was revealed.

See you soon,

H xxxxx