Have you ever found yourself in a scrapping store, staring transfixed at some new product wishing like mad you had a reason to buy it? Well some cute Easter products had me doing just that this weekend.
The bunnies were so cute and the colours so delightful, I really wanted to work with them but I just had no photos that I could use them for. With no children of my own I had no Easter Egg hunt photos to use. So I quickly checked with my sister but her kids were all grown up and she had no photos of earlier hunts. I had held a hunt for the neighbours children years ago (pre-scrapbooking) and I had given all the photos to them. I really wanted those embellishments and papers, I even considered buying photos from istock to use with them and I still might do that someday and journal about my childhood Easters. But I think a vintage Easter range would be better suited to that.
So, what choice was left with but to organise an Easter egg hunt and rope in friend’s kids. I know my friend Gail will lend me her kids for an hour or so and Lorraine and Pete down the road might lend me their grandkids too.
OK, so the next hurdle to overcome is buying chocolate eggs and not being tempted to eat them before Easter. I think the solution is to buy heaps of eggs.
Keep a couple out for hubby and I and then hide the rest way up high somewhere where I will forget about them till the day.
Now, how to stop my two white fluffy dogs from finding chocolates that the kid’s may not have found? After all, chocolate is deadly to dogs. We could hold the Easter egg hunt in the front yard, but it’s pretty small and my cottage garden could get trashed. It really does need to be the backyard. I’ll just have to make scrapbooked egg tokens for each size of egg and hide those, and then each time a child find’s one they can come and get an egg from a basket on the table (out of reach of the dogs). That will work. It’s also a way to control who get’s the bigger eggs because I can put a child’s name on one large egg token each and instruct them that if they find an egg with someone else’s name to leave it there for them to find. OK this is shaping up. I’ll make invitations today and send them out. I’ll shop for eggs this week in case the best ones are all gone. I can make the egg tokens on the weekend. All good!
Oh, and before you tell me I had better head back to the scrapbook store for those embellishments before they are all sold. Don’t bother. You don’t think for a minute that I actually left the store without buying them did you!
Now all I have to do is find a way to use the cute caravan range and the camping embellishments. I wonder if John has thought about getting a tow bar for our car. Are caravans very expensive? Never mind. Where there’s a will there’s a way...
Cheers till next time!
