Happy Easter everyone.....

My Mum sent me four of these miniature hessian shopping bags from the Trade Aid shop in NZ.
I think her intention was that the kids would sew and glue things onto them during the holidays, but me being a crafting control freak once I had an idea I had to run with it!
Anyway I needed them for today so last night I whipped three of these cute little Easter Egg Hunt bags up. The buttons were from The Works, cost £1 and I have a handfull left over. I already had the felt so they only cost me pennies to decorate!!

I have named each bag on the back with a permanent marker pen and a different coloured button for each child.

ps: The fourth bag I have nabbed for myself and am going to do something scrappy and vintage with one day........
Thursday afternoon saw us at parent teacher meetings so I left the kids to decorate a box of egg shaped cookies from Tescos whilst we popped over to the school. They had fun and it was £4.00 well spent ( my conscience felt guilty for buying them and not making them), as afterwards I was pleased I had bought them as Ben got so much pleasure out of it as well.

I think Georgia enjoys eating more than decorating...and Ben learnt how to steal the sweets from the other girls.....

Although I am in the easter mood I haven't really done any easter paper crafting this year. I am still waiting for someone to invent those ultimate easter papers!!

Ben has been making shredded wheat nests at playgroup and has turned out to be bit of a mini egg stealer as well as a sweet stealer. I wonder how many eggs he will pinch today when we have an Egg Hunt at a charity fundraiser I am going to?

....... and I was a good girl and went to the market early for some fish and made some delicious Fish Cakes for tea.

Happy Easter
Love Ruth xxx