Easter Inspiration blog hop

An Eggcellent wreath is born!

Here is a visual step by step guide on how I gave birth : )
You will need alot of hot glue, patience and a good vacuum to clean up afterwards.

I never have much time so I drew this free-hand.

  Cut this free-hand too...the cardboard was a little thick and found it easier to cut it with a steak knife.

Using alot of hot glue the first layer of eggs are glued down.

Then I glued the Easter grass in between the eggs.

Hot glued the second layer of eggs.

Added my Spring ribbon and sign.

The finished product!

Easter Inspirations and history

Spring please hurry up!!!...I am so tired of looking at snow and being accosted by freezing cold temperatures when I step foot outside my door....enough already I say!

Give me flowers!

Bright sunny days!

Yummy treats!

Bring on Easter!

The History of Easter

While everyone knows that Easter brings out a festive mix of brightly decorated eggs, adorable bunnies, and cute baskets in spring, Easter is also a combination of important events in different traditions.

In Christianity, Easter is preceded by Holy Week. This week includes Maundy Thursday, which commemorates Jesus' last supper with his disciples; and Good Friday, which remembers the day of his death. These somber days are then followed by Easter Sunday to celebrate the day that Jesus rose from the dead three days after his crucifixion.

Easter is also related to the Jewish holiday of Passover, a period that remembers Israelites' freedom from slavery in ancient Egypt. This is observed during Nisan, the first month of the Hebrew lunar year – which also happens to be between March and April.

Also according to St. Bede, an English historian, the term "Easter" is derived from the Teutonic goddess of spring and fertility, whose name is Eostre. Pagans had festivals in her honor during the spring equinox, when daytime is equal to night time.

So where did the Easter bunny and eggs come from?

European pagan religion incorporated rabbits and hares in their celebration as a symbol of fertility. In Germany, pagans even named their hare "Oschter Haws" and early settlers introduced him to America during the 1700's. In their stories, Oschter Haws left eggs the night before Easter for the children to hunt and find on Easter morning – some children would even build "nests" for these anticipated eggs in baskets and bonnets.

Meanwhile, eggs were used to represent resurrection – a celebration of new life in Christianity. Likewise, many other ancient civilizations from India to Greece have used the egg to emphasize the significance of life. While the origin of coloring eggs is unknown, some reports date it back as far as 2,500 years ago where Zoroastrians painted eggs for a New Year celebration. Today, for varying reasons, beliefs, or for just plain fun, people from different cultures all over the world dye eggs and present them as gifts or as little treasures around Easter time.

-Courtesy of: Disney Family Fun

Free Easter colouring pages and activities

Crayons , critters , crafts and washable paint : )

Never did care for Mondays because they come to fast but with Cesina being on March break next week...I thought I would spend the day gathering ideas of how to keep her entertained.

First I decided to try out some dye I got in an Easter dying kit to make sure it wouldn't make a mess when Cesina tries it

I don't think so!..just cutting the dye bags was a disaster and this is after I used the "keep fingers clean bags"

Why stencils it is!...I do love me some washable paint : )

Free Easter stencils 

Free Easter colouring pages

Hershey kisses craft ideas

                                                          

                 Free Easter recipes

               Free St.Patrick's printables

               St.Patrick's day crafts

If all of these links fail to keep her busy...

cleaning up after her sisters will = D

Twins is fun!

Is it me or is time in a hurry!!?!!....seems like yesterday I was wallowing around pregnant ...having people ask me if i was pregnant?...to which I would reply "no"...I figured that if they were going to ask me a stupid question then I was going to return the favour and give them a stupid answer.

Can't say I miss being pregnant...not being able to drink coffee or eat salami was not cool but I loved being that connected to my babies. Nothing in the world can articulate it!

Now when I go shopping I am asked the dumbest question ever!!..."ARE THEY YOURS?''...course you did not think that stupidity is reserved for pregnant women only did you?

Once I shot the idiot asking me that question the WTH look..and got...."Oh..I thought you might have borrowed them"

Sure cause borrowing crying babies to go shopping is FUN TIMES!!!

I mean who doesn't borrow other people's babies to go shopping with right??

Wonder if that even exists??

Shopping with twins requires patience and not just for the babies but for all those questions and comments people are so willing to give you.

are they yours...are they twins..are they identical ...are they boys..what are there names...oh you got your hands full...ahhh all girls...are you going to try for a boy...how many diapers a day do you go through...what are their names...why did you name them that...what colour's your husband because you have one white and one coloured baby...oh'wait here I just gotta get my friend to see this...the list goes on and on...prepare yourself for stupidity 101!

Perhaps i should set a better example for the girls and not be so snarky with my responses...they are 13 months old today and soon will transform into little recording machines..... but if only there wasn't so much stupid going around...it wouldn't be such a task!

   Happy 13th months old Valentina y Alejandra!!

A perfect example of a WTH look!...like mother like daughter...xoxoxoxoox