Easter advent.

I thought I would share how my family is celebrating Easter this year.  My sister and her good friend created an Easter countdown that includes 12 tiny items and a Bible verse to accompany each one... and they were kind enough to gift me with my own "kit."  I popped each verse + item into dollar store plastic eggs, and we opened the first one this morning:

Egg #1!

 The kids, drinking their green smoothies while Dad reads the Bible verse for today and shows off the felt palm branches.  (ps, are you as distracted as I am by the crazy mop on my kid's head? it refuses to be styled.)

The morning was spent reading the Bible passage and talking to the kids about Palm Sunday.  I'm so excited to open the eggs as we go along, and Trisha and Melissa did such an amazing job with all of the tiny items.  (The fimo bread+grapes are so very cute, representing the last supper).

There is still time to make your own kit if you would like!  Here are the 12 days of Easter:

1. People waved palm branches as Jesus rode into Jerusalem (Matthew 21:1-11)
2. Mary poured expensive perfume on Jesus' head (John 12: 2-8)
3. Jesus shared the last supper with his disciples (Matthew 26: 17-19)
4. Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver (Matthew 27:3)
5. Jesus carried his own cross (John 19: 17)
6. Soldiers placed a crown of thorns on Jesus' head (John 19:2)
7. Soldiers parted Jesus' garments and cast lots for his clothes (John 19:23)
8. Jesus was nailed to a cross and pierced in his side (John 19:18, 37; 20: 25-29)
9. They gave Jesus vinegar mixed with gall on a sponge to drink (Matthew 27:34)
10.Spices were used to prepare Jesus' body for burial (John 19:40)
11.The stone covering Jesus' tomb was rolled away (John 20:1)
12.The grave linens lay empty! He is alive! (John 20:6-7)

Have a great day!

happy easter, peeps!

I just wanted to pop in and wish everyone a happy easter.  Hope you enjoy a meaningful day with family and loved ones, some good eats and lots of chocolate...  I have a song in my heart, as we celebrate the resurrection of our Saviour!

 We whipped up (by that I mean, I forgot I had bought the peeps until 15 minutes before we were leaving for church when I spied them in the pantry) some treats to give out to our friends this morning.  To our favorite peeps! ha ha - I crack myself up.

The kids and I popped a few peeps and some chocolate eggs into each cello bag... that sugar stuff is crazy - it got everywhere!  We stamped (I did let them help this time!) the chick image from PTI's friendship jar spring filler set and they carefully dotted some pastel colors into the polka dots with their markers... I hand-wrote the sentiment and we stapled it all together just in time to spread the luv to our favorite peeps.

MIM - on Saturday

This week really flew by... I haven't missed participating in a MIM challenge yet, and I didn't want to break my streak.  I have to admit that I'm not head-over-heels for this card.  The stitching is sloppy, which is bugging me.... but at least the kids were excited by this card!  They asked that it be given to them on Easter Sunday, with "lots of chocolate, ok?" haha.

The challenge this week is "heat-embossing."  Really not my go-to technique. At all.  I find it messy and I absolutely hate it if it's not cleanly done.  When there are extra gold or silver or (even worse) white flecks on the paper?  blech.  So I mostly (when I do heat-emboss) use clear embossing powder.  Wanna see it closer-up?

The kids had fun running their fingers over the stamped images.  So did I, truth be told.  

ps - did you notice the eggs in my apothecary jar?  I stamped PTI's "textstyle II" and "background basics: gingham" onto white tissue paper (y'know, the filler you put into your gift bags) and then modge-podged strips onto some dollar-store plastic eggs.  Our crafty spring decor... 

Card supplies

stamps: friendship jar spring fillers, tag-its (PTI)

paper: whisper white, certainly celery, baja breeze, pink pirouette, daffodil delight, bashful blue dsp (all SU)

ink: versamark, daffodil delight, early espresso (all SU)

misc: clear embossing powder, scallop edge punch (SU)