Bambi and Friends Easter Egg Wrappers from http://family.disney.com
Here’s an outstanding way of dressing up your Easter Eggs. Just click the image and you’ll be directed to the free template you can print out on paper or card stock.
You may find these tags to be helpful:
Mickey and Friends Easter Basket Tags compliments of http://family.disney.com
With all the Easter excitement, you don’t want anyone losing their Easter Basket of goodies, so Mickey and Friends are on hand to tag all the baskets.
Here are some great stickers you may enjoy . . . or use them as cupcake toppers or for whatever and wherever these would be useful.
Mickey and Friends Sports Stickers
Enjoy your free printables — just click the images.
Any holiday celebration wouldn’t be complete without free printables from the Disney Family collection. Yes, they’re on board with adorable candy boxes that you can fill with Easter goodies. Let’s see what they have for us.
Yes, here is Miss Daisy Duck ready to be filled with Easter goodies.
And Winnie the Pooh. Oh doesn’t he look dashing with his paws full of Easter Eggs!
Have you clicked the images above for the free templates you can print out on card stock? Well, if you haven’t what are you waiting for?
Maybe you’re waiting to see what else I have in store for you. Well, let me see. How about:
Join Alice on a Wonderland Adventure!
I do remember getting sugar eggs with a scene inside, but this is so much better! This is an excellent craft that makes a beautiful display and also makes a fun gift for your guests. Click the image for the free printable that you can print out on card stock and assemble.
These should keep you busy for awhile. Of course, I’ll have more.
Thanks for stopping by and be sure to tell a friend or two!
I’ve always loved cupcakes in all flavors. The crowning glory for these cupcakes are the bunny ears. They’re so easy to make. You may have figured it out that they’re marshmallows cut on the diagonal with the freshly cut inner sections dipped in pink sprinkles. They’re placed in frosting with shredded coconut. You may be tempted to add eyes, a nose and whiskers, but in my opinion the ears are enough.
Carrot Cake seems to be appropriate for these cupcakes, but with the coconut added to the frosting, it seems Coconut Cupcakes would be a delicious bunny treat.
Coconut Cupcakes Recipe from http://foodnetwork.com
Makes approx. 24 cupcakes
Ingredients for the cupcakes:
3 sticks softened unsalted butter 2 cups sugar 5 extra-large eggs at room temperature 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 1 1/2 teaspoons pure almond extract 3 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1 cup buttermilk 14 ounces sweetened, shredded coconut
Ingredients for the frosting: 1 pound softened cream cheese 3 sticks softened unsalted butter 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon pure almond extract 1 1/2 pounds sifted confectioners’ sugar
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar on high speed until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. With the mixer on low speed, add the eggs, 1 at a time, scraping down the bowl after each addition. Add the vanilla and almond extracts and mix well.
In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In 3 parts, alternately add the dry ingredients and the buttermilk to the batter, beginning and ending with the dry. Mix until just combined. Fold in 7 ounces of coconut.
Line a muffin pan with paper liners. Fill each liner to the top with batter. Bake for 25 to 35 minutes, until the tops are brown and a toothpick comes out clean. Allow to cool in the pan for 15 minutes. Remove to a baking rack and cool completely.
Meanwhile, make the frosting. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, on low speed, cream together the cream cheese, butter, and vanilla and almond extracts. Add the confectioners’ sugar and mix until smooth.
Frost the cupcakes and sprinkle with the remaining coconut.
Adorn the top with a pair of marshmallow bunny ears.
There you have it. A delicious cupcake that fits the season.
Many people like to use hot glue to attach the plastic eggs to the wreath ring, but you can use a glue of your choice that will hold up to warm weather as it adorns your front door.
Add a colorful pastel bow on the bottom of your wreath and some colorful ribbon on top to hang it on your door.
There you go! A quick and easy Easter Wreath that welcomes Spring to your front door! You may want to add some birds, chicks or bunnies to embellish this wreath. Allow your imagination to take flight and enjoy this spring wreath project.
Maxine is always on hand to give you some helpful tips 🙂
Maxine doesn’t have the best advice, but she does make me laugh.
You may find this little craft idea helpful for your Valentine’s Day celebration.
It’s wonderful to have an easy project to take to school parties or having a party at home. These are Cupid’s Arrows that you can make and distribute to family and friends. They’re very easy to make. You’ll need a long lollipop stick or a straw. Add some red and pink garland at the top, slide in a piece of Big Red gum on the stick and for the arrow put a sugar gumdrop heart. They are impressive and a big hit at any party.
I have a massive old California oak tree in my front yard. My arborist and his crew were working nearby and stopped by to check the tree. It needed shaping, balancing and trimming away the debris.
In nature it wouldn’t matter how this great oak tree grew, but sharing space with my home, I need to have it trimmed and shaped in order for me to keep it from dropping branches on my roof or the roof of my neighbor and to clear away the debris that died out and is still clinging.
I thought this an appropriate metaphor for the coming New Year — this being the last day of 2014 and a wonderful way of welcoming in 2015 with infinite possibilities after clearing away all the old. Much of what we seem to do with our lives in preparation for the New Year or what all the New Year Resolutions are about.
I do love that old tree. It was here before the house was built. In the olden days, women would protest by chaining themselves to the trunk of the tree to keep the contractors from cutting them down. This one in my front yard was saved. One down the street recently died due to lack of care with the lack of water and the owner not caring enough to give it proper nutrition and water.
I suppose when I bought the house, this tree was put in my care. It’s important for me to take this responsibility seriously and to do what I can to nurture it to grow abundantly long after I’m gone and forgotten.
The estimates on the age of this tree range from 150 to 200 years. I do wonder.
Well, we’re celebrating another New Year. This one we’ll ring in with it being fully trimmed and cleaned up. It brings gladness to my heart to take away some of the weight from the mighty branches and allow her to stand tall and majestically for all to see. With the wind and the cold we’re experiencing out of Canada today, I’m wondering if my arborist heard her cry for help. It may seem strange, but she is a living tree. And all living things needs care and nurturing. She provides shade for me . . . the least I can do for her is to trim her and to take some of her burden away for the New Year.
May your burdens be cast away this last day of December, 2014 to bring in 2015 will joy and love, hope and prosperity.
