Monday, March 30th, 2009
12:31 A.M.
Jeanna is hosting Fun Monday this week:
Other than Easter Sunday Sunrise Services we attended many times if the weather permitted, Easter around our home was mainly for kids. The Easter Baskets and such...toys, egg hunts and plenty of deviled eggs and egg salad for a goodly time afterward are days of yore for us. [We still hard boil eggs for the two of us, but that's about it!]
So, to add a little bit, since we only do Easter baskets now for home decoration, with no purpose other than that...I'll share a thing we did for our kids when they were small and home. Keeping in mind that we were in Colorado when the kids were young...so, most Easters it was cold and wintry outside...a lot!!! The Easter Bunny would leave treats and fun INDOORS!!! Early....WAY early in the morning of Easter Sunday, I'd get up and get out the chalk dust from the canister and dip a crafted rabbit's foot that Bud made of plywood...it was small! I'd pour a little colored chalk [pink for Irene and blue for Erik] on a paper plate then, dip the wooden rabbit's foot in and go around along the inside of the house and 'stamp' footprints all around the house...making sure I didn't run into anything in the dark and wake the kids. The tracks went from their beside to hidden places where I'd hide an Easter egg. Sometimes instead of a colored egg that we colored the day before on Saturday...all of us, including Bud! ---I'd hide a small trinket in the hidden crevice. I'd go back to bed after the job of playing Mr. Bunny, and wait for the kids to wake up. They'd be thrilled that the Easter Bunny had arrived. And at the end of the trail...the kids knew it was the end...when they found their baskets, usually their traditional personalized baskets.
During the daylight hours then, the kids would go outside if the weather permitted and hide the eggs for Mom and Dad to hunt down. A few times they'd forget where they hid them and it'd take hours to find them all. Some were never found...and I'm sure the dogs we had got them before we did. But it was all a very fun day.
We'd go to mom and dad's house for ham and all the fixin's! And there the kids would get more Easter goodies from the Grannie and Gramps Bunny!
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But today, now that we're alone and just the two of us....we only decorate with baskets. And what I'd want in the basket now is just the artificial colored grasses and plastic eggs so I can then pack them away for the following year.
~...End Fun Monday
COMMENT HERE if you'd like to skip photos of the Art Festival we attended, below
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TOMORROW: The Art Museum by the sea!!
12:31 A.M.
Jeanna is hosting Fun Monday this week:
- The topic will be Easter Baskets: Share a story, is it better to give or to receive, what would you like in yours?
Other than Easter Sunday Sunrise Services we attended many times if the weather permitted, Easter around our home was mainly for kids. The Easter Baskets and such...toys, egg hunts and plenty of deviled eggs and egg salad for a goodly time afterward are days of yore for us. [We still hard boil eggs for the two of us, but that's about it!]
So, to add a little bit, since we only do Easter baskets now for home decoration, with no purpose other than that...I'll share a thing we did for our kids when they were small and home. Keeping in mind that we were in Colorado when the kids were young...so, most Easters it was cold and wintry outside...a lot!!! The Easter Bunny would leave treats and fun INDOORS!!! Early....WAY early in the morning of Easter Sunday, I'd get up and get out the chalk dust from the canister and dip a crafted rabbit's foot that Bud made of plywood...it was small! I'd pour a little colored chalk [pink for Irene and blue for Erik] on a paper plate then, dip the wooden rabbit's foot in and go around along the inside of the house and 'stamp' footprints all around the house...making sure I didn't run into anything in the dark and wake the kids. The tracks went from their beside to hidden places where I'd hide an Easter egg. Sometimes instead of a colored egg that we colored the day before on Saturday...all of us, including Bud! ---I'd hide a small trinket in the hidden crevice. I'd go back to bed after the job of playing Mr. Bunny, and wait for the kids to wake up. They'd be thrilled that the Easter Bunny had arrived. And at the end of the trail...the kids knew it was the end...when they found their baskets, usually their traditional personalized baskets.
During the daylight hours then, the kids would go outside if the weather permitted and hide the eggs for Mom and Dad to hunt down. A few times they'd forget where they hid them and it'd take hours to find them all. Some were never found...and I'm sure the dogs we had got them before we did. But it was all a very fun day.
We'd go to mom and dad's house for ham and all the fixin's! And there the kids would get more Easter goodies from the Grannie and Gramps Bunny!
- - -
But today, now that we're alone and just the two of us....we only decorate with baskets. And what I'd want in the basket now is just the artificial colored grasses and plastic eggs so I can then pack them away for the following year.
~...End Fun Monday
COMMENT HERE if you'd like to skip photos of the Art Festival we attended, below
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A day at the Art Festival
SATURDAY
[and a side trip around the North Shoreline-with some Art Museum latest exibits]
This year, we had artists from Italy, with chalk art...fascinating!
I enjoyed attending the festival of arts --they had chalk art demonstrations, prints for sale at a bazaar inside the complex [smaller photo with the palm tree - shows the art center in the city]. So much to look at and watch. I love anything that deals with arts and crafts. Outside the complex there were more booths...crafts, paintings, music entertainment [even one segment was belly dancers...oh my. If I were those ladies, I wouldn't be caught DEAD in those revealing outfits...my tummy would start jiggling and never stop - even when the music ended...seriously. BRAVE SOULS!], bead work, jewelry and so much more. Plus food. LOL Some background on the Italian Street [chalk] artists HERE.
After spending most of the morning at the art center, we drove over to the art museum about a mile away, and perused the halls. Each month or so they change exhibits [the temporary ones, on loan]...this month it was quilt art that I wanted to see. I'll post those photos soon!
ALL images above have 'closed captions'....just place your cursor over the images to explain them.
SATURDAY
[and a side trip around the North Shoreline-with some Art Museum latest exibits]
This year, we had artists from Italy, with chalk art...fascinating!
I enjoyed attending the festival of arts --they had chalk art demonstrations, prints for sale at a bazaar inside the complex [smaller photo with the palm tree - shows the art center in the city]. So much to look at and watch. I love anything that deals with arts and crafts. Outside the complex there were more booths...crafts, paintings, music entertainment [even one segment was belly dancers...oh my. If I were those ladies, I wouldn't be caught DEAD in those revealing outfits...my tummy would start jiggling and never stop - even when the music ended...seriously. BRAVE SOULS!], bead work, jewelry and so much more. Plus food. LOL Some background on the Italian Street [chalk] artists HERE.
After spending most of the morning at the art center, we drove over to the art museum about a mile away, and perused the halls. Each month or so they change exhibits [the temporary ones, on loan]...this month it was quilt art that I wanted to see. I'll post those photos soon!
ALL images above have 'closed captions'....just place your cursor over the images to explain them.
TOMORROW: The Art Museum by the sea!!
