AMANDA'S BASKETS: Fabric Easter Eggs

Friday, April 18, 2014

Fabric Easter Eggs

Can you believe that this is the Friday they call Good? Easter is but a couple days away. For everyone who celebrates Easter, my wish is that you have a grand day with family and friends enjoying each other's companionship and honoring the specialness of the day.

I finished decorating the rest of my fabric eggs. I just used little bits of specialty yarn and flowers held on with glue...

After running some errands today, I returned expecting the entire tree either bare of eggs or on the ground. The kitties only took off one of the eggs and left it right in front of the tree. Very nice of them.

Did you ever watch the HGTV show Small Space, Big Style? I really enjoyed it and got lots and lots of ideas which I will need when I get back to NYC, probably living in a studio apartment with about 350 square feet!

Well, a lot of the episodes are on YouTube in English but with subtitles! They are done segment by segment...four per show. So far, I have found almost 20 shows. Lots of fun.

Another surprise find. Eons ago, Lee Remick and Angela Lansbury did a Christmas Movie for television called The Gift of Love which I fell in love with. Unfortunately, my vhs copy finally gave up the ghost. So what did I find? The entire movie on YouTube.

I have also found some long shows with Carol Duvall, a crafter whose show I loved to watch, also on HGTV. Can you guess where I spend my time?

Well, I have to make my grocery list...Greek Easter coming up with spinach pies, grape leaves, kibby, baklava and all the accompanying goodies. Guess I will be in the kitchen all day tomorrow...

Again, please have a great weekend and enjoy yourself...
Thanks for dropping by...
See you on Monday...

CRAFTING IDEAS

I am always looking for a small piece of paper to write down something which will later be disposed of. I decided to use some of the scrap paper of which I have a ton. I mostly use the paper for glueing projects. I decided to cut the paper into a small size. (Six pieces from a piece of copy paper.). But just having them sitting on my desk would get messy without a container. So, using a cardboard box, I cut it down to size and using a hot glue gun I glued the ends together. Using a picture from a magazine cut into pieces and stick craft glue, I glued the pieces to the box inside and out. I also used some decorative tape for the outside edges. And to finish the top corners which were not covered, I used straight pins with colorful tops. Looks nice and works well.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

So in looking over your habits what did you find? Some popular good habits folks have are: Meditation, exercise, journal writing, flossing, reading and walking up early. Some not so great habits included smoking, saying yes, swearing, tolerating folks, not sleeping enough, always complaining and constantly making excuses. Do you have more good habits or more bad habits? Is it time to change? If so, start with the easiest bad habit to change, not the hardest. This will give the best chance of success. Decide on the best way for you to change your habit. Worry too much? Set a time to worry and then stop. You may have to stop yourself several times at the beginning but keep it up and you will worry less. Or, alternatively, write the worry down as well as options to stop the problem. Just figure out which way to stop is best for you.