I had to share this beautiful picture that my cousin put together for me for a project that I had to do at work. She is an amazing photographer!

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A few Easter crafts...

This is a cute little craft that my cousin and I worked on Tuesday. I wanted to share it with you. It is hard to see (the lighting is bad and I am not a photographer lol!) It says Spring Flowers. I cut out a square out of some 2X6 that I had, painted it white and then we cut out the words and flowers with "sure cuts a lot" on my cricut. Turned out so cute!

This is a fun little tree that my girls and I made after we got done coloring the eggs. It is a branch from a tree in the backyard. We spray painted it white and added some flowers and eggs. So EASY and didnt cost me anything! I love projects where I have everything on hand!

My husband built me this amazing shelf! I just had to share it with you all! We found the design online and thought it looked easy enough. So here is the end product. If you are interested in learning how to do this let me know and I can post the site that I found it.

Also I wanted to show these cute blocks that I made. Its hard to see what it says with the flash but it says EGGS. Turned out really cute for this shelf. The sign that says SPRING goes on my front door but it got really windy the other night so it put it here and thought it looked cute

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HAPPY CRAFTING!

What an awesome day we had! I hope everyone had a great Easter. We didnt go to any egg hunt this year I like to have my own, the hunts that the cities put on are to crowded and not very creative. So because there was a ton of snow on the ground outside we had our hunt inside! The kids had fun and thats all that matters =-D

The Easter Bunny stopped by and left his cute little footprints all over the place! (Such a cute idea. You take a sponge and cut it into a round shape, get it wet and dip it into flour. Make your footprints leading from the front door over to the baskets and out the back door. We hid the baskets so our footprints were all over)

SO CUTE and the kids went nuts!

Happy Easter

Christ the Lord is risen.

We wish your family a wonderful Easter.

With Love

The Holliday Family

YAY! I can finally start decorating for Easter!!!

Easter is pretty early this year with it falling right at the first of the month. So I thought now would be a great time to start decorating! Here are a few things I have put out so far...

This is a glass vase that I have had forever and I was not sure what I wanted to do with it. So I decided to add a little candle stick to the bottom and make a little bird nest inside. With a few eggs it turned out so cute!

This is a beautiful wreath that I found this year at Macy's ! It was a little pricey (around 17.00) But I HAD to have it ! So CUTE!

I got this little tree and eggs from the dollar store! Cute and CHEAP!

I got these bunnies from the dollar store a couple years ago and this little basket I got at the DI. I added some dirt and grass seed and well.. you can see how cute it turned out. I added these colorful eggs that I also got at the Dollar Store. LOVE THE DI AND DOLLAR STORE!!!

So that's all I have done for now, but I am sure there is more to come =-)

Happy Crafting Everyone!

Happy Birthday Relief Society!

So Tuesday night was our wards Relief Society Meeting, I am on the Relief Society board for activities so I decided to help out with the decorations. And we had a service auction so I decided to auction off my decorations. I took some pictures before the the meeting started. Here they are...

The candles are 4x4 pieces of wood cut 9 inches long. I painted them cream and added some jute around the base. Then I found the Relief Society logo online and cut it out on my cricut. They turned out so cute!

I also made these little square blocks.

I found some old pictures of Relief Society women, modge podge them on the wood and they went great with the candles.

Hope you had a great St. Paddy's Day!

So St. Patrick's Day is here again, wow how fast time goes. This is my second St. Paddy's without my sweet Irish Grandpa (who I was so close to). So I had to make his most favorite meal. Corn beef, Cabbage and his special recipe for bread pudding (from his Momma, who I am told was a full blooded Irish woman haha) anyways the first picture is the corn beef cooking in the pot. It has to boil for about 4 hours..

This next picture is the yummy bread pudding after it is all done. SO GOOD!

Now last year was my first time making this at my own house and I was pretty scared, so my Grandma told me that she would be happy to come over and do it for me and let me watch. But this year I really wanted to try and do it on my own so... She still came over haha, but I did it while she watched and made sure I didn't totally goof it up! I must say that it was not as hard as I thought it was going to be =-)

This is the pudding in a big pot getting ready to boil. It is wrapped up in a sheet, yes sheet! I guess a cheese cloth is not strong enough to hold it so we tore up an old sheet and made a square. ( We washed it really good first lol)

Here is my special Grandma helping me! =-) I am so lucky to have her. The pudding has to boil for about two hours. It has bread, cinnamon, raisins, sugar, butter and flour in it. It is soooo GOOD! I guess when my Grandpa (who I forgot to mention was born in Newfoundland) was growing up there was no candy and when his Momma would make this for them it was a real treat! They loved this and it was like candy to them. He taught my Grandma how to make it and told her that you can never add to many raisins or cinnamon!







Here is the whole entire meal. (like my Halloween plate =-) ) Corn beef, cabbage, carrots and whole potatoes. This is the way Grandpa liked it. Miss him.. Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! Till next year...