Our Spot: Happy Easter

Friday, April 10, 2009

Happy Easter

Pass it on:

A thoughtful action passed on from my Mom...

"Last night as I was painting eggs (as I usually do this time of year) I was reminded again of what a great symbol of hope an egg is. How it symbolizes rebirth, renewal and sends the message that life goes on. Many in our community are suffering loss of jobs, loss of homes, or other losses with this economic crisis. And while I believe it will change, it is not going to happen overnight and whatever “suffering” we’re enduring, it’s going to take awhile. But just as spring always follows winter, I believe that a message of hope and encouragement to all would be a good thing. So many times we can’t change our problems but we can change our attitudes and points of view and that often makes the biggest change of all. Perhaps you’d like to “paint an egg” and pass on a message of hope, love, and appreciation to someone who needs it. Or maybe you could pass on the idea and share a message of hope and good will. " -Gail Greenfield

We keep a tradition with good friends of ours. For the last five years the Easter bunny delivers a basket of goodies. This year we get to be the Bunny!

Another option for getting in the Easter Spirit, that I HIGHLY recommend, is going to the Easter Pageant "Journney to Jerusalem". Located at the LDS Church Off Linder Rd in Meridian on Cayuse Creek, just inside the Paramount Subdivision. Friday Night from 6:30 - 8:30 and Saturday from 3:00 - 5:00.It is free and the pageant is a tour that takes groups through every 15 min. It lasts around 45 min. and is WONDERFUL! It is for everyone so take your children or yourselves and feel the true spirit of the resurrection.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Thanks Amy for the reminder. I loved the quote at the begenning.; April 12, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Angie Miller said...: Thank you for mentioning this, Amy!; April 14, 2009 at 5:33 PM

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Spotlights

Fall Felt Flower Wreath
Try this tutorial site for how to make the felt flower.
http://junepfaffdaley.blogspot.com/2009/09/sweet-sweater-rosettes.html (I changed part of this method, see below)

Items Needed:
12" Styrofoam wreath
20 - 24 felt sheets from the craft store
fabric scissors
glue gun (with plenty of sticks)
berry sprigs, garland, whatever you can find for cheep

Note on flowers: After cutting the spiral I rolled my flower up with out glueing. I added a dab of hot-melt at the end. I did not put a felt circle bottom on the flower either. I just went with gusto on the glue and stuck it to the wreath ;) That's crafting my way.

Method: First I cut two and a half of my felt sheets into one inch strips. Spiraling the strips around my wreath I glued them to the styrofoam surface. Next I went to work on the flowers.

For the Three largest flowers I simply cut the spiral and then loosily "swirled" it and added hot-melt wherever needed. I cut three sizes of flowers (5 in, 4in, and 2 in) That made something like 8 large, 12 medium, and a gazillion small flowers (don't worry you'll need them). After making all my flowers I went about arranging them. That's the hardest part for me. AND the nice part for you since you can put them anywhere you want. In the end I decided I wanted My focal spot to be the bottom right "corner" of the wreath.

I started with gluing the three large flowers first. I then snipped off a few berry's and glued them in the centers. Then I just worked out from there, using the 5in flowers to get me going out away from the focal flowers. Because I used five colors in my wreath (sage green, berry, tan, chocolate, and mustard) I tried to not only work with the right size where I needed it but also tried not to have the same color ever touching. With five colors it was easier to accomplish this than I thought. One thing I learned was to periodically lift my project up to make sure I was covering enough surface area that I didn't see the skin of on the inside or the outside of the wreath.

Voila! Ready to hang.