Good Morning and because I am put of town I thought that you all deserved a chance to win some BLOG CANDY! We all love to have the change to win but we even love it better when we win! 😀
Whenever I have these opportunities for Blog Candy I just love the responses I get from the winners…it usually goes something like this….I NEVER win a thing….or I popped on and thought I saw my name and then I looked again and it was my name…..fun times!
I am sure that you have seen on many blogs the Paper Pumpkin Kit this month, it is simple ~ it is ADORABLE and you can have the opportunity to win a refill kit….the minute I saw that they were available – I HOPPED (ha-ha) on it and purchased several for my peeps, their friends and my friends. (trust me, I will make a ton of these guys and have them handy to brighten many people.)
Now you might be saying….the refill? What about the stamp set – I am not Paper Pumpkin Subscriber….no worries….if you do not have access to the stamp set with yourself or a friend…I will be glad to send you mine after I stamp all of their cute faces on the project!
I know that this might seem silly but I think that we can always have fun making cute projects like this – the young and the old all love being reminded of fun Easter memories. Grab a cup of coffee…its a quick video….
I did not have a bunch of time to go searching before I left with my Dad but here is a link to Pinterest that has some cute alternatives. I have not honestly had the chance to open mine but after watching the above video…I know that I am going to have FUN but I know that I will make some tweaks to add my Susan flair.
What do you have to do?????
How about leaving me a comment of a tradition that you have or remember about Easter. It can be anything….it is always just so much fun to read and get to know what everyone does…..here are a couple of mine!
- Making an Easter Egg Tree with Plastic Eggs in our front yard and my kids were always horrified that I did that (heck – I thought it was fun….my Mom always did it)
- Having scavenger hunts with the kids to find their baskets
- Dying Eggs….(John and I STILL DO IT…..)
- Memories of trying to get the kids dressed…ready EARLY to go to church and getting in the car …..going – WE DID IT…..we actually are on time! ( remember those days Moms out there….when we thought that there was NO WAY that we could pull it off)
- Making homemade goodies to give to loved ones….
This is a fun thing to do….go down that Memory Lane that we all hold so dear to our heart. Tomorrow I will share with you the winner….I look forward to reading your comments!
Don’t forget….the days are coming to an end but remember – DOUBLE PAW PRINTS FROM ME….that in itself should be making you twitch your nose!
An Easter memory that comes to mind is hiding the plastic eggs before religious services and upon returning finding the squirrels had had their own egg hunt with our eggs.
Have a great time with your Dad, and thanks for the blog candy offer.
My favorite Easter memory was my early childhood when the elderly lady that lived across the street from us (who we affectionately called Grannie) handmade my sister and I matching dresses to match her granddaughter’s dress. My mother couldn’t afford new dresses for us, so it was truly an act of LOVE receiving these dresses each year.
My favorite Easter memory is getting a Russell Stover egg carton with brightly foiled chocolate covered marshmallow eggs.. Also going to the town Easter egg hunt at the high school football field. The little girls were so cute in their new dresses and ‘party’ shoes. Of course , it was almost always raining.. Hot Cross buns for breakfast. ?.
My favorite Easter memory is the bunny and chick sugar cookies my mother made each year for us to take to school for our class. I now have the cookie cutters she used and each year they bring back wonderful memories.
My favorite Easter memories always revolve around church services, the lovely music and beautiful flowers. We would always have a new dress, and I sewed my own once I got into my high school years. Then we would have a lovely dinner after church, and eat some of our candy.
WOW . . . I remember the smell of the lilies in Church. Beautiful. I remember my Mom laying out all of our cloths for Easter morning. I remember one Easter is snowed and we had to stay home. I remember certain outfits I wore or my first pair of real leather gloves, navy blue, the racing kind with the knuckles cut out and a strap with a snap. I bet I still have them in my drawer. See I was always a navy blue gal.
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My favorite Easter memories are of seeing my children’s faces light up when they saw their Easter baskets. Such a joy. Thanks for the chance to win blog candy and for sharing your talent and really your life with all of us.
For many years our family spent Easter in Destin FL for spring break. We went with 5 families so there were always a bunch of us around. Many times we went to a sunrise service down the beach from our condos. One year one of the mothers brought her Easter bunny costume which totally covered her. She sauntered up an down the beach Easter morning to the delight of all the kids.
My favorite Easter memory from my childhood was getting to pick out a new Easter outfit for church and wearing my new dress, hat and gloves! Thank you!
My favorite Easter tradition and memory is the Easter egg hunt I always held for my two kids. I hid plastic eggs and to make it fair they each had to find certain colors of eggs. If they found an egg that wasn’t THEIR color they had to leave it and keep searching. As they got older the eggs contained a one dollar bill. So at the end of the search if they found all their eggs they had the same amount of money. I am a very tricky hider and sometimes they would find an egg by accident hours after the search had ended and they had all but given up!
My favorite memories both as a child and a parent are the Easter egg and basket hunts! It was always fun to find/hide the eggs in the most unusual places! And always counting to make sure we found them all before…. we could smell them!!
My favorite Easter memories is the Easter egg hunts. Always had fun trying to find the “golden egg” to win an extra special prize. Oh and of course the Easter baskets!
One of my favorite memories is having the extended family over for dinner and having the whole house ring with laughter. The kids would hide and rehide their eggs from the basket. Each time they found the eggs it would be joy all over again. Happy Easter to you and your family.
The Russell Stover filled chocolate egg from my grandmother, a tradition that lasted until she died, when I was in my 30s.
I remember one year, in particular when I absolutely couldn’t find my Easter basket. We lived in a small house and there just weren’t that many hiding places. I was about 10 or 11 at the time so I was pretty good at hunting. I finally found it UP THE CHIMNEY! P.S. We had never burned wood in our fireplace so the basket wasn’t dirty.
My Easter memories all involve family…..going to church together, searching for our Easter baskets, having a huge family dinner and devouring tons of chocolate!
Love the pooch pic….he made me chuckle! We still dye eggs, too, and, at least one or sometimes all three peeps come to help. We had scavenger hunts for the baskets when the kids were little (actually up until they moved out…haha). Have a hoppy day, Susan. ?
Decorating the dining room with bunnies, chicks, lambs, etc. The special egg plate to display our colored eggs. The egg hunt – my kids were like in their 20’s the first time we didn’t do it – and boy, were they disappointed! Leg of lamb dinner. The LONG Easter vigil mass. Those are my memories, don’t know what we will do this year since the kids are grown and my dear MIL (who so loved and supported my stamping projects) passed away a couple of weeks ago and we are very sad. Sad she won’t be with us, but glad we will see her again in heaven.
So sorry for your loss. Death of a loved one is always hard but around a holiday it is really hard for years to come.
Thanks Chris, I appreciate it.
Always got to pick out an Easter dress….was always too cold to wear it lol. My legs would be freezing! Loved dying the eggs and finding them.
I am one of 6 children so it was so fun to spend the day at my parents after church and Easter dinner to have an Easter egg hunt in the back yard with all the nieces and nephews. One year my husband stood in the center of the yard with an egg in his mouth and they looked all around for that egg, not seeing it in his mouth. We were hysterical. Loved going to Mother and Daddy’s with all the family. After all, family is everything! Have fun with your Dad.
Growing up, it was special when Easter fell on my birthday. I always looked forward to the new spring outfit, especially the fancy shoes, and then hoped it was warm enough to wear everything on Easter Sunday. Egg hunts are still a family tradition as well as the big family dinner.
We grew up in the country with no neighbors next door. We would get up early and go hunt Easter eggs in our pajamas and our hair still in curlers. My mom was always careful to make sure each of us kids got the exact same number of candy items; even down to the jelly beans.
Walking down memory lane – when I was in grade school I remember getting a new dress and hat and shoes and WHITE gloves. Shows how dated I am ! Fast forward to Easter with our little ones – we would take baby powder and cotton balls and make paw prints on the floor coming in the back door and heading to a settee where the Easter baskets were assembled. The kiddos totally believed it was the actual Easter bunny – at least for a few years ! Now we have grandchildren and new traditions ! We still make paw prints – that one survived !
Hi Susan,
my Easter is pretty much the same as yours……even tho my kiddos are grown. Now we decorate the tree in the front yard with eggs along with my grand kids and dye eggs with them. It’s nice to carry on traditions with the new generation.
thanks for sharing your talents and hugs
I have been going through some old pictures and remembered that we always took a family picture, after church, of us in our new Easter clothes. We also got together for a special dinner with the extended family. Of course, there were Easter baskets to find.
My favorite Easter memory is that my Dad loved to buy my Mom, sister and myself matching outfits to wear on Easter morning including hats, at the time my sister and I weren’t thrilled but 70 years later we talk about how awesome it was for our Dad to do that.
My grandparents were “Pennsylvania Dutch”, and every Easter we had an “egg dobbing” contest. Everyone picked out a dyed egg. You paired up with another person and would hit the ends of your egg together. The person whose egg didn’t crack was the “winner”. We have now turned this tradition into a real championship competition with a “trophy ” for the ultimate winner. We go head to head with the oldest and youngest starting off the competition, until there is only one person left with an uncracked egg. It’s the highlight of our Easter celebration!
My kids always had a hunt in the morning. Little clues led them all over the house until they got their Easter surprise. My dad still buys me a chocolate bunny.
Our Easter baskets were always hidden on Easter morning. It was always fun to search for the goodies. Then a big Easter dinner with grandparents. We also did the ‘egg dobbing’ contest and I think that was my father’s favorite thing.
My memorable Easter was one spent at my brother’s house. Our children and their cousins were all dressed and ready for church. We lined the kids up by the pool to take photos. My husband was the photographer. Dressed in his suit, he misjudged his distance from the pool and stepped off into the water, camera and all! The cousins are grown now and they still remember!
One family Easter dinner comes to mind…..at my aunt and uncles farm when the ham was served and my cousin burst into tears and would not eat …..it was his “pet” pig! We were pretty little and I think that is when I realized exactly where ham came from!!???
One of my favorite Easter traditions was dyeing eggs with silk ties.
For years when my daughters were young and we lived in San Diego, I bought them a large solid chocolate Easter egg at See’s candy shop. My oldest finally said that she didn’t like chocolate! She still doesn’t eat it! I’ll never understand that. teehee
My memories include my mother making the same dress for me and my two sisters. Thankfully, I was the oldest, so I didn’t have to wear the hand me down for the next 7 years!
My memories as a child is getting a new Easter dress going to church and going to my grandparents house. We still do go to my grandfathers house he is 94!
My Mom always made the girls new dresses for Easter. I can still remember a pretty lavender dress. It was my favorite. I know I have a picture of me in that dress. I need to go check it out!
When the boys were small, we would die Easter eggs and after they were asleep, we would hide the eggs throughout the house. When the grandparents moved closer, we did the same tradition with them. I specifically remember one Easter that we found all but ONE egg. It did not take too many weeks before we found it. Ha. Thanks for the chance to win. This set is cute.
Well you know me, it is all about the food! Deviled egg time!!!! Hey we needed the protein to offset all the candy! Oh I loved coloring eggs. One year I was trying something different in coloring the eggs – well, the dye somehow permeated the shells and we had blue and green deviled eggs! We called them Dr, Seuss eggs. I remember one egg I made into a WInnie the Pooh Bear for my new nephew and it was so awesome on it’s little stand. Ah, those mother daughter outfits, I remember them well! One year we hid eggs and one was not found. Well, it didn’t stink for some reason thankfully and it was found when we moved a few years later. Oh, I remember all those big Easter dinners with my cousins and family usually out on the dreaded farm grandma and grandpa had with the chickens that chased me. Oh, the spring flowers with the huge vase of daffodils my mom always had. Ah the memories! A lady we called Aunt Martha used to collect all the gawdy fake rhinestone and fake jewelry and then glue the pieces to glass eggs. One year I had begged my dad to pay for this rather “unique” necklace for my mom at Christmas. The look on her face when she opened it, oh the horror – I can’t wear this was seen in her eyes but since I picked it out she put it on that Christmas morning. Then, I never saw the necklace again. Well, she gave it to Aunt Martha and the next year when that necklace was totally forgotten pieces of it showed up on glass eggs she made for me. I didn’t recognize them as I was still pretty little but later when I put them on display after Mike and I were married my mom told me where some of the “pretties” came from on the eggs. On that note, I am going to hop up off the computer and go get that basket of eggs and clear off a place by the TV. I have a small collection of handmade cards from Christmas, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, and birthday cards I think can go in the vault for safe keeping. Who knew that plastic saran wrap-like fake grass would still be colorful (a little dusty) after all these years!
I have my PP kit so you can leave my name out of the drawing and let someone else make some memories with it. They are the cutest little rabbit baskets but I have seen several alternative ideas I am going to work on. Besides it has all those cute little 3×3 cards to make. Ted only needs one of them to hold hold some baby carrots which he loves. I think he would much rather have one of the rabbits in the yard though I don’t know what he would do with it once he caught one if that ever happened.
Last Easter my granddaughter was visiting and got to dye Easter eggs for the first time. Her brother is extremely allergic to eggs so they never dyed them at home. What a treat to watch her experience all the different colors!
When we were young our parents would always hide our baskets……what a zoo in the AM when all 5 of us kids were hunting for our baskets! Then we would have a big ham dinner with our dyed eggs as the center piece. I have taken over the tradition of making “Easter Nest” for my “big boy” (husband) that his mom used to make for him. Corn flake cereal coated with chocolate made into nests with tiny jelly bean eggs……putsy but fun. Plus homemade Hot Cross Buns with morning coffee. Thanks for the memories!!
Going to Sunrise services – it’s what Easter is really about. In high school our youth group was given tasks and I played the organ then. Yes I may start out a little bleary eyed, but it’s important to me
Lovely memories everyone has! My kids are 20 and they still make me hide colored and plastic eggs, they don’t want to give up that tradition. (Which is wonderful) We always have Eggs Goldenrod for breakfast, made from the colored eggs after they find them. Have a lovely day!
Getting new white patent leather mary jane shoes. Coloring eggs with my Dad. One year out of the blue he asked if we could color eggs. Think he was missing my Mom more that year. We made a mess but sure had fun talking about previous Easter celebrations.
My rat terrier at roasted asparagus last week! Had to share that with your dog/carrot pic lol
Celebrating our risen Savior first and foremost! When Grandma was still with us we’d all gather at her house for a ham dinner. We hide LOADS of plastic eggs for the kids to find in the yard. We don’t even fill them with candy, and they love to see who can find the most! We usually do it more than once 🙂
Cute paper pumpkin 🙂
I hope you have a nice time with your dad this weekend 🙂
For 10 years in a row, my girls and the next-door neighbor girl had an egg hunt at our house the Saturday before Easter. We filled plastic eggs and I hid them. Some were very hard to find! Most of the time we hid them more than once, but took the candy out before we rehid them. All three girls (women, now) remember egg hunts!
I hope to have a tradition with my grandson, and if possible, my granddaughter, but they are still babies, so it won’t start this year.
Safe travels!
See you in two weeks!
There were four kids in our family and not a lot of extra money but somehow, we ALWAYS got a new dress, bonnet,
and shoes for Easter to wear to church. My sister and I couldn’t wait until Easter! When I got married and had my own
family, I started making a huge Easter egg out of sugar cookie dough. After it was baked I decorated it with colored icing, M&M’s and mini Twix bars. It has become our traditional Easter dessert that everyone looks forward to. I love
the promise of Spring and new life and especially the very special meaning of Easter.
I was the oldest and the only female with 5 brothers! Of course we were not allowed to start our Easter egg hunt until all were awake! As the oldest and a teenager I did not find it necessary to awaken at 6am to see what the ‘Easter Bunny’ left ! However after being ‘attacked’ by at least three of the brothers I surrendered and acted appropriately to discovery of the eggs…I do recall a year that sometime months later my Mom discovering a ‘forgotten egg’ ….. not pretty!!! After breakfast it was of to Easter services at church….in our Easter outfits. Good times!!!
Everything Easter! Church, new dress, shiny new shoes and Easter bonnet, coloring eggs and Easter baskets, brunch! Then to see my children when they were young since they were boys the dress up not so much but they loved coloring/dying the eggs and the baskets! All good!
My husband & I host the Family Easter get-together (around 20 or so) every year. After church, we have a big dinner, dessert, and then, the “Easter Egg Hunt”. It’s game on at my house! One year in particular, my daughter and nephew (they were both about 13 at the time) saw the same egg at the same time. She hip-bumped him half way across the room to get the egg. It was hilarious and continues to be a topic of conversation. We have moved the Easter egg hunt outside, and have a “little kids” egg hunt and a “big kids” egg hunt. The big kids are in their 20’s & 30’s now. It’s fun to watch them tackle each other to the ground to get an egg. Whoever gets the most eggs wins a special prize. It’s always a lot of fun. Family is everything. Happy Easter Everyone!!!
Having Easter egg hunts for the orphan children in the home when my father grew up.
Every Easter we get up early and attend Church. I place all the easter baskets on the coffee table in the living room and cover them with a sheet so no one can see until we return from Church. One year we arrived home to find the sheet on the floor with shiny wrappers and chewed up easter candy all over the place. Our Golden Retriever had herself a wonderful morning. She was standing there waging her tail as we came in. My son’s were young so we had many tears ? to dry up. So you know I was off to the store to replenish the Baskets. And yes my dog was very sick for a couple of days. I learned a good lesson and so did our dog. (Take the dog to Church with us, only kidding ?) Make sure the Baskets are away in a closet.
I love to decorate the house for Easter – bring the Spring inside because in the Midwest we often don’t have spring-like weather for Easter. My most treasured decorations are the hand decorated eggs (real blown out eggs) that my grandpa hand decorated. Grandpa would be 109 years old if he were still with us today…It really gives me a connection to my childhood days and trips to Grandma & Grandpa’s house wearing ruffly pastel dresses for Easter dinner! These eggs would be in Grandma’s living room in a big crystal punch bowl on a bed of Easter grass. Wasn’t life easier then?
Always church and signing those wonderful timeless hymns!! Ham dinner after church with picnic foodstuffs as sides, potato salad, baked beans, raspberry jello salad made with raspberry sherbet. When our niece and nephew were little we his eggs in the house. Katherine was the littlest and her eyes got huge when we said the Easter Bunny delivered eggs for her. Precious memories!
It was always fun to hide the eggs in the yard and then watch the little ones scavenge for them. Dressing the boys in new Easter duds was another highlight. When I was a young girl, I loved wearing new patent leather shoes, lacy gloves, an Easter bonnet, new purse and ankle socks with lace around the edges. Fun times to think back on….
One year when my five children and I were dying eggs, my son wrote a “secret” message on my egg with the clear crayon. When I dyed the egg, it read “Peggy’s Eggy!” We laughed and laughed and now every year…you guessed it. My egg says Peggy’s Eggy!”
A few days before Easter, Mom used to boil her eggs, and decorate them with wax ( a pencil that had a pin in the eraser, was her tool!) to create neat designs. Us kids got to choose a color or two and helped dye them — when I was younger I did not know my Mom created the designs and used to think they were magically appearing! It is a tradition she still does today, although us kids do not help her dye them — it is her grandchildren 🙂 I also recall dressing up in our “Easter outfits” for church, lunch at Grandmas, for ham and potato salad, then home for a visit from Grandad. Grandad always gave us kids a hollow chocolate Easter Bunny, with money inside. It was always one that did not have foil on it — just a plastic covering or in a box. He would carve a small hole, and roll the bill so small that it fit, then covered the hole with the chocolate remelted it, or put a hard candy decoration over it so we were none the wiser ! It was so fun to find the money after we ate most of the bunny!!!! It is something we still talk about to the younger kids when we get together for Easter — that is the most favorite part of it, celebrating with family!!!
I loved dying the eggs. Mama would fix the vinegar water (no bought dyes way back then) and we’d tint the water with food colors. We’d do it on the kitchen floor over newspapers, using spoons. We’d have some pastel ones and some darker ones but I loved them all. Smile making memories.
I spend Holidays alone now. Most of my family are in Heaven: Parents, 2 brothers, a daughter, and my husband. My other daughter & her family are in Colorado and my son just got on his own and does his own thing. But, that all aside, I worship and praise the good Lord for His wonderful love and care! And yes, my little Zoey eats carrots! LOL. God bless and keep you and your family happy & safe, Susan! 🙂
Coloring the eggs for the Easter bunny to hide, Then getting up really early to hide the eggs.
Shopping for new Easter clothes.