It's Beginning to Look a Bit Like Easter

I realized that I don't really have much in the way of Easter decorations,so I've been thinking and working and researching...trying to come up with something that's meaningful and beautiful (as well as cheap).

First, I remembered my friend Kendra from My Insanity grew wheatgrass last year and decided to try it out.

We have had thee best time with this stuff.  We started growing it Thursday and this is what it looked like Sunday afternoon, although by Sunday evening, it had doubled in size.  We keep making comments about 'watching the grass grow'.  Ha.

Mr. C is determined to actually see it growing.  He is convinced it waits until we are out of the room to sprout.

It add just the right amount of Spring though, don't you think?  I have four ramekins, two terracotta pots and three baskets full of the stuff.  Plus it epitomizes instant gratification!  Love that.  

Then I glued and painted and glued some more, and repainted and cut and hot-glued my fingers together until I came up with these two eggtastic projects.  And hopefully you can tell that this first project is in fact eggs...covered in book pages.

It took three coats of paint to get just the right blue and the perfect amount of speckles on these robin eggs.  But I think they turned out in the end...and I love the moss. Apparently Miss B does too because she took a bit of it to start a moss garden in a paper plate of water.  I had to sit her down and explain to her just how pricey this moss business is and that is strictly for crafting purposes....I guess she'll have to use her own money to fund her very own moss garden.

This little guy (who looks half asleep or something in this picture) kept trying to steal my lovely robin eggs next.  But I can't really blame him. They are a very fetching blue.

Anyway, they turned out pretty close to what I'd imagined and will hopefully be a great reminder of the spirit of the season, which is exactly what I was hoping for. Although I have no idea what book page-covered eggs have to do with the true meaning of Easter...they just look cool...and they're eggs... I guess scripture would have been more appropriate, however I wouldn't feel comfortable ripping up scriptures.  Maybe photocopied scripture...but then you lose the yellowed pages...oh the dilemma.