In Honor Of Easter

Easter is one of my favorite holidays because it reminds me of the great sacrifice Jesus did for all of us so that we can have hope and a future if we believe in Him.  Because the holiday means so much to me I like to make various things to celebrate it and give to family and friends.  Here are the few things that I made this year.  In the first set of pictures is an oval that I die-cutted to make an egg and I decorated it with putting a die-cutted cross in the middle along with chocolate crosses, a cross tin with jelly beans (The different color jelly beans represent the different steps of the Wordless Book which is used to help people become a member of God's family.  Black stands for sin.  Red stands for Jesus's blood.  White stands for Jesus's blood washing out sins away after we confess them and ask Him into our heart. Green stands growing in our faith after we become a member of God's family.  Gold stands for Heaven.  When we become a member of His family we are able to go to Heaven. If you are confused about what I am writing about or would like more information please let me know.), and two different Easter baskets (The second basket has Mickey shaped head on it.).

I purchased erasers shaped like a carrot from the dollar section at Target and made them into magnets.  The bigger carrots are from dollar tree.  I put a bunny ring inside and filled them with chocolate eggs.  For the smaller carrots I wrote on a label either "God carrots for you" or "Some bunny carrots for you.  I wrote one of the sayings on the back of the big carrots.  Of course I put googley eyes on both kinds of carrots. I love googley eyes!

Before ending this post I would like to share some the fun stuffed animals my daughter and I purchased.

Aren't all of them just too cute. Of course we couldn't pass up getting the "Peeps" Oreos. Have a wonderful weekend and a blessed Easter!  Until next time, happy crafting and God bless!

One of My Favorite Themes

Last month I made two cards in a Disney theme for two good friends that are huge Disney fans like I am.  Along with their Disney themed birthday gift I made them these cards.

Since this post has a Disney theme here are pictures from the last time that I went to Disneyland and Calif. Adventure.  My hubby and I went to both places on a little date.  We had an adventurous date without our kids as we went to purchase Easter Egg maps at both parks as well as Downtown Disney.  We purchased the three maps and claimed the winning eggs before we went hunting for the eggs.  We did not want the winning eggs to sale out.  We found one egg at Calif Adventure and Downtown Disney but we did the entire hunt at DL.   We will wait for our kids to do the hunt at the other two places.  After a fun day of hunting we ate some food at the Food and Wine Festival and ate a fancy meal at Carthay Circle.  We ended our date with watching the fireworks.  Here are some pictures of our date.

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful rest of the weekend.

A Hello Kitty Themed Post

I hope this post is finding all of you doing well.  I am so glad that today is Saturday. Let the weekend fun begin!  :)  Today I am going to share with you a tag that I made for a good friend.  I attached it to a bag

that I put a some Hello Kitty cards in. After I attached the tag to the bag I used my bow die cut to make a bow. I think the bow added a nice finishing touch to the tag.  What do you think?

The cards are so cute that I could not resist purchasing them for myself too.  :) Before I end this post I wanted to share with you a super cute picture that I took with HK last weekend at the grand opening of a Sanrio store locally that my daughter and I went to.

Check out the cute items that my daughter and I won and received for free. 

Have a great weekend!

Celebrating Chinese New Year

Happy Year of the Dog! Hope that everyone is doing well. Lately I have been much too tired to craft.  I hope that I will have more energy soon to craft.  I have only been crafting when a swap is soon to be due or if I really need to do make a project for an event or a person.  The latest projects that I worked on were for Chinese New Year.  I decorated tags and put a magnet on the back of them to put on different goodies.  This is the one that I made for friends.

This one was for family.

It was fun using the "dog" character from the Dandelion Design Chinese New Year set. Here are a few pictures from our my family and I celebrating Chinese NY.  My hubby, my kids, and I wore our Chinese clothes.  Here is a picture of my hubby and I

and a picture of my sisters and I.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great week!