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Easter Eggs & Baskets

Easter Eggs & Baskets

Hippity Hoppity!

How to Make A Fabric Easter Basket:

My friend Heidi make this way cool Easter Basket – And then was cool enough to write up a how-to, and even provide a pattern for you to make your own!  This is from last year, but I thought it was worth a re-post.

We had a bunch of readers make their own last year… if you make one, be sure to send me a pic!

Make Your Own Easter Basket Tutorial

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Creative Egg Dying Ideas

Also from last year, but worth a repeat as the

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The Chicken Egg Family

The Chicken Egg Family

I’ll be posting this on Foodwhirl later this week, but here’s a preview for the ultra cool peeps who read Dabbled! Is this not the cutest thing? Get the whole HOW TO at Eye Candy Food Blog!

Are you looking for Easter dishes that are easy and fun to make? If yes, then these “newly hatched chicks” made from hard-boiled eggs are perfect for you (along with chicken mommy, of course). You can offer them as a snack or use them to garnish a salad. Or how about an Easter picnic? Simply pack them in the egg carton you

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Easter wrapup, and Share your easter eggs!

Easter wrapup, and Share your easter eggs!

Hope everyone had a fun easter… Did anyone try any of the easter egg dyeing techniques from last week, or do anything else cool with your eggs? If so, leave a comment with a link, or add your egg pics to the Dabbled flickr pool.

Other cool stuff that is Easter/spring related, to tuck away for next year..

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More Easter Crafty Links..

More Easter Crafty Links..

Easter is right around the corner, so here’s some extra inspirations!

10 Keepsake Crafts for Easter from Better Homes and Gardens, includes these sweet little chick egg cozys, with instructions on how to make them. They also have some simple decorating ideas, like this egg and tulip table display and for the kids, these cute little felt animals, perfect for sliding into an easter basket.

  • If you missed it, Dabbled’s own Easter Egg Roundup has a bunch of great easter egg coloring ideas.
  • Speaking of Eggs – This is

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Easter Eggs: 12 Interesting ways to color/paint/dye them!

Easter Eggs: 12 Interesting ways to color/paint/dye them!

Another Flickr Roundup for you, this time it’s Ways to Dye Your Easter Eggs… come on, you weren’t going to just go use a kit, were you? From cabbage to duct tape, we have lots of cool ideas for making your eggs memorable. Some complicated, some easy and kid-friendly!

See under the pictures for links to the original pics, and more “how to” info.

1. Kymberlee della Luce shows us the results of dying with tissue paper. Lovely! Click thru for instructions
2. From Rick Unger, Easter Egg Dyed With Onion Skins (instructions linked)
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Tutorial: How to Make a Fabric Basket, perfect for Easter!

Tutorial: How to Make a Fabric Basket, perfect for Easter!

Welcome CRAFT, Tip Junkie, and Whip-up readers… Look around, we have lots of cool projects here!
My friend Heidi Bragg gave The Boy an adorable basket filled with goodies as a thank you for borrowing his tux. I found out that she actually made this gorgeously cute basket herself, and insisted that she tell us how! She did, and even provided a pattern for you to make your own! Check out the so cute monkey and banana coordinated fabric… the possibilities are endless. Wouldn’t this be special for a keepsake easter basket? Or a gift basket for a friend?
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