We ad quite a busy weekend planned, Good Friday was spent in craft heaven for me, painting Easter Eggs and making Easter bonnets, this carried on into Saturday as well and even Sunday morning for Paul who was taking it all very seriously.
My top tip for painting is ice cube trays! i have loads of them from when i used to make baby food, so for painting i give one to each child and they can put in whatever colours they want, this stops the older ones getting annoyed when the little ones mix up the colours.
Everyone enjoyed it even Alex did an egg
Afterward though was carnage!!! it took me hours to clean up and i ended up taking the chairs outside and scrubbing and hosing them down. I got everything clean and put away then Paul started making his so out it all came again!!!!
Saturday night we went to my friend wedding evening party, it was at a lovely local wedding venue Mains Hall and it was really nice and also just nice for Paul & me to have a night out, it doesn't happen that often and it was our first night out since the beginning of December for the Gala Ball
I loved the light curtains, i am thinking i might have to make something like this for home, not that i have these amazing beamed ceilings at home, but i would like to do something.
Sunday morning we went to an Easter Egg hunt that i was helping with, for one of the groups i am involved with. It was in Pheasants Wood, where we held the Halloween walk. We also held i a Decorated Easter egg and Bonnet competition as well. It was pouring down with rain as we were setting up and then just as people were due to arrive the rain stopped and then just as we had packed up down it came again
Ewan had decided he preferred playing xbox to making hats and painting eggs, so he modeled Alex's hat which i had made for him and Alex was to busy jumping in muddy puddles to stand for judging so it worked out. I suppose Ewan is starting to get to that age where he is not as interested in getting involved with things like this, or in the making part, its sad really.
I wan't the judge by the way!!!
So these are the eggs that Paul made, Angry Bird eggs.
Paul is really artistic and is fantastic at drawing and painting.
Molly is holding her rainbow egg and my glittery spiral egg
Paul also did this chewbacca egg
With piles of Easter eggs, lots we won on the hunt, as well as a big egg we collected from a local shop where Fred won a coloring competition, we spend a lot of time eating chocolate, in fact i was not really looking forward to making dinner so i put the Pork in the slow cooker early in the morning and prepped the veg so it wouldn't take that long, when we got back from the woods i sliced the soft fat of the top of the pork and put it in with the roasties, all i can say is that it was the nicest pork i have had in years, and i am glad now that i made the effort to cook a roast,
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