Easter Table Setting Ideas

It's about that time...... are your Easter baskets ready? I wish I could say mine are, but I been feverishly busy working on a really special birthday party for my oldest daughter. I can't wait to reveal the photos after I'm done. It's been a true labor of love!

With just a few more days until Easter, I'm sure we are all trying to find some great ways to decorate our Easter tables with unique and fun table settings. Here are a few ideas that I found from around the web:

This gorgeous display from Better Homes and Gardens uses peony "nests"

in footed glass bowls with some speckled eggs as centerpieces.

Using butterflies as table decorations signifies Spring right away. These beautiful ideas from Southern Living can be executed in minutes after a quick trip to the craft store.

A collage of Easter ideas from Bliss Wedding Market, Delish, and BHG.

The Easter tree makes such a statement for very little time or money.

Martha Stewart shows a beautiful Easter table using large baskets of tulips as

centerpieces and some colorful compotes of jelly beans. The repetition of coral from the tulips to the tablecloth, jelly beans and even the drinks makes an eye-catching display.

Just a few simple blossoms in an egg cup sitting on your plates make a wonderfully easy place setting from Celebrations.com

Or you could try this egg cup idea from the Farm Chicks

using a little moss and a place card flag.

And again, simple is good! I love this place card Easter egg idea from

Better Homes and Gardens.

I hope you all have a wonderful day.... and now to work on those Easter baskets!

{Customer Party} - Easter Birthday!

Today I'm sharing a few photos a sweet customer sent me of a party that I designed the printables for. Little Ella was celebrating her 6th birthday, and with it being so close to Easter, her mom, Andrea, decided to go with an Easter theme and use my Bunny Birthday collection as a good starting place.

The party was held at Twin Oaks Fun Farm where the kids enjoyed lots of fun activites like riding ponies, picking strawberries, feeding animals, hunting eggs, stuffing bunnies and playing on the farm's huge playground. Can you even imagine how much fun those children had!

And with 65 guests, children and parents alike, Andrea did an amazing job of decorating and organizing all of those activities and even served a full bar-be-que lunch.

Andrea chose cupcakes from a local bakery, Bliss, and used the sweet personalized cupcake toppers from the Bunny Birthday collection to dress them up a bit.

The dessert table also included some cake pops and cookies that Andrea made herself.

I love a DIY girl!

What a beautiful setting!

And the birthday girl.....

Andrea used my napkin wraps from the Bunny Collection to wrap around store-bought bubbles which made a fun and inexpensive prize for the kids. And about her cake pops, Andrea says, "For my first try at cake pops they turned out pretty good and were a big hit."

And that's not all Andrea can do! This smart mom used her Cricut to cut vinyl names which she then used to personalize each of these Dollar Tree Easter buckets.

What a smart idea for an Egg Hunt.

Andrea's mom came in to help, too, making all of the table runners for little Ella's party.

What a great mom!

Andrea says, "We had a wonderful time making some special memories for Ella on her 6th birthday." And from the looks of things, I think everyone there must have had an amazing time, too!

Thanks, Andrea, for letting me share Ella's party! You did a wonderful job!

{FREE} Easter Printables for Operation Shower - Part 2

I hope you all are enjoying the FREE Easter printables download I designed to raise money for Operation Shower. To find out a little more about Operation Shower, just take a look at my post from Part 1 yesterday. Amazing how raising only $250 enables them to throw a full, fabulous baby shower with gifts for a military mom to be whose spouse is deployed. How wonderful!

I thought I'd post a few more photos today of these super sweet designs, perfect for all of your Easter brunches, egg hunts and parties.

I hope that once you download the FREE printables, you'll be sure to

1. Check out Operation Shower’s website to find ways to donate or volunteer.

2. Tell your friends, family, and neighbors about Operation Shower and the Give Thanks project.

3. Facebook/Tweet/Blog about this FREE EASTER DOWNLOAD to help spread the word Operation Shower.

4. Donate to Operation Shower here.

Our military families have made so many sacrifices for us. I hope we will all join together in supporting them and this worthy cause!

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Cupcake Wrap Easter Basket Favors

Easter is just around the corner and I can't wait to share some fun ideas I've been seeing around the web. So many creative girls out there!!

Today I thought I'd share a simple little tutorial of Easter basket favors made from the cupcake wraps and party flags from my EASTER PRINTABLES COLLECTION. How much fun are these! And so simple to make, too.

Here's what you'll need:

- Mini Robin's Eggs (Whoppers brand malted eggs)
- Green Easter grass
- Paper Nut/candy cups (find on cake decorating aisle of craft stores)
- Printable cupcake wraps and straw flags (or some scrapbook paper of your choice)
- Hot glue and gun
- Scissors
- Scotch tape
- Easter suckers (mine are from the Dollar Tree - $1.00/6pieces)
- Piece of green florist foam or styrofoam

Step 1: Print and cut your cupcake wraps and toothpick flags out.

Step 2: Assemble cupcake wrap by wrapping around nut cup and securing with tape.

Step 3: Now take your straw flag piece and hot glue one edge inside the cupcake wrap.... then glue down the other side to create a basket.

Step 4: Cut small pieces of green florist foam or styrofoam into squares and hot glue to the bottom of your paper nut cup.

Step 5: Stick Easter egg sucker into your florist foam and add a few robin's egg to weigh down the cup so it won't tip over.

Step 6: Add Easter grass and robin's eggs.

Step 7: Dab a small bit of hot glue to the back of your sucker where it meets the handle of your basket and adhere the sucker to the handle. This way the sucker will stay in place.

You're done -- that's all. EASY! If you'd like, at this point, you could wrap each basket in some cellophane and tie it up with a sweet ribbon and favor tag to give to classmates, teachers or Sunday School classes.

I hope you enjoyed this simple little Easter project. More to come soon! Have a wonderful weekend!

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Birthday {EASTER} Printables!

After releasing Shindig Parties TO GO's Easter printables set last week, I've had quite a few requests for BIRTHDAY packages. What a wonderful idea! Do you have a little one with an April birthday? An Easter egg hunt party is the perfect theme!

So I'm happy to announce that I've put a BIRTHDAY EASTER PRINTABLE set in the shop this morning. It's super cute and includes a personalized invitation and a thank you note, too! Just take a look at some of the files below:

It also includes these cute bunny topper silhouettes, cupcake wraps and flags that you can make cute paper Easter baskets from for favors, drink wraps, cupcake toppers, candy bar wraps and more!








And at only $25.00 for the SET, with all the personalization of the invitation and other printables included, it's affordable, too!

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