Easter Round Up

Can you believe Easter is on Sunday?  It really crept up on me this year. Here's a round up of my past Easter projects for your perusal.

Silk Dyed Easter Eggs (with old neck ties)

Holiday Decorating: Tea Cups & Easter Eggs

Calligraphy Eggs

Plastic Egg Easter Garland

Heavenly Baked Carrot Cake Oatmeal

Peeps Wreath 2.0

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{Recipe} Easy Veggie Soup

This was another one of those soups where I was trying to recreate a soup I'd had at a local cafe. It was all veggies and quite delicious.

Here's my version.  Feel free to use whatever vegetables you have available.

Easy Vegetable Soup

1 medium onion, diced

1 cup carrots, chopped

2 stalks celery, chopped

2 cloves garlic, chopped

1 cup small broccoli florets 

1 small zucchini, chopped

1 cup frozen corn

1 can, diced tomatoes

1-2 handfuls of kale

6 cups vegetable broth

salt & pepper to taste

• Cook chopped onion and carrots in water to soften. Add garlic and cook a few more minutes, being careful not to let it get brown
• Add remaining vegetables (except kale)
• Add broth and bring to a low boil
• Reduce heat, cover and simmer for about 20 minutes
• Add kale and cook on low until kale wilts
• Season with salt & pepper to taste, add any other seasonings you like
• Enjoy!

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{Get Crafty} Peeps Wreath 2.0

When I unpacked our Easter decorations I realized that our Peeps wreath was noticeably absent.  I think it had seen better days and I must have tossed it out last year.

{Original Peeps Wreath}

This was one of my first posts EVER and also my first Peeps wreath.  I didn't preserve it and it lasted six years so that's a pretty good run!

Time for a new one!  I found most of the materials at Dollar Tree.

• wire wreath form (or foam)
• ribbon (I used 2 rolls of pink burlap ribbon)
• Peeps (I found some at Dollar Tree and some at the supermarket)

Wrap the wreath form in ribbon and hot glue the Peeps to the ribbon in any pattern or design you like.

Add a little loop for hanging (I made mine out of yarn) and enjoy your wreath!

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What's Hygge and How Do You Get It?

I think I stumbled across the word hygge (pronounced hoo-ga) when I was looking for some cozy winter decorating ideas on Pinterest. After that it seemed like I kept seeing the word everywhere I looked and found out that hygge isn't just a wintertime thing.

 This book helped me figure out what hygge is all about.  It's a Danish word that loosely translates as a sense of comfort, togetherness and well being.  Who doesn't want more of that all year round?!

{Hygge Essentials}

Soft Lighting:

Candles

Luminaries

Twinkle Lights

Fireplaces

Fire Pits

Chimineas

Food/Drink:

Bake up something sweet 

or

Make a big pot of soup to feed a crowd and make the house smell delicious.

A great mug for a warm drink

Add some extra sweetness

Cozy Furnishings:

Blankets (to snuggle up with a good book)

Thick Socks

Fresh Flowers

Host some Get Togethers for friends and family:

Hygge is better shared

Natural wood elements are quite hygge too

Unplug and Get Outdoors

Go for a walk without your phone

Play cards

Go for a bike ride

From the looks of things, I've already got a lot of hygge in my life but I'm always up for adding more!

Check out this book if you want to learn more about hygge.

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