Repurpose Store Hangers

Here's a great way to reuse those 

 cheap plastic store hangers.

 I used a garden lopper to lop off the end.

 It gave me lots of bag clips.

 For snacks.

 For cereal. 

( photo is for demonstration purposes only)

I store cereal in Tupperware.

 Any bags.

 It's impossible to keep the toothpaste

tube rolled-up.

This works.

I keep extra clips in.....what else?

A tennis can !
 (click on to see more tennis can
 storage ideas.)

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Paper Strip Easter Egg Craft

Paper-Scissors-Glue

That's all you need for this easy craft.

 I found this on pinterest and went to the blog

Julep for the egg template and then 

printed it onto heavy paper. 

I can reuse the cut-out egg 

and just trace it onto paper the next time. 

 Use one page with the egg outline to lay out 

an assortment of paper strips that you

 have cut into about 1/2" strips.

 DO NOT use a ruler. Just eyeball it.

You want it naturally uneven. 

 Use white craft glue to glue them on. 

DO NOT obsess about keeping them straight.

This is a great craft to do with your kids.

It would be fun to do on Easter.

(See the zigzag blue paper. That's

the inside of a reply envelope.)

Use the other cut out paper 

template as the mat. 

Frame

 I have it at the coffee station 

for an Easter vignette.

 Now, I think you could also do this with 

ribbon scraps or fabric scraps

 or even just paint the lines. 

FUN!
Happy Easter

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A Little Bit Of Easter-Bunny Spotting

Touches of Easter throughout my house.

Bunnies on the entry table.

You can see the reflection of my dining room 

plate wall that's on my header.

 Kitchen cabinet.  

The ceramic Easter Bunny house

 makes a great nightlight.

Bunny in the cabinet.

The dishes I use for Easter,

 Amapola by Villeroy & Boch. 

Bunnies on top of the microwave

Here's my new vintage apron hanging

on the chicken wire dish pantry doors.

My dear friend Cathy bought it for me

last week when we met for lunch and 

a visit to our favorite antiques mall.

My egg-shaped rag wreath hangs on

the other door. A good color match.

Bunny on the family room coffee table.

Bunny needlepoint pillow on the sofa.

 Bunnies on the family room sofa table.

Apothecary jars are filled with eggs.

 Vintage tea cups.

 A French wire egg holder holds marble eggs.

 Lucy gets a bunny too and a colorful afghan.

I found this last week thrifting. 

Can you believe the perfect Easter colors!

 Bunnies on the living room cobbler's bench.

I have my decoupaged eggs everywhere!

At the base of my moss-covered orchids.

I hung the painted eggs from the branches

 in the silver ice bucket.

Those branches have come in handy for

Christmas, Valentine's Day, St Patrick's Day

and now Easter. Hmmmm.....what next?

Bunnies on the living room coffee table.

 A needlepoint door hanger.

Hope I didn't forget anybunny!

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Bunny Art Project

This is another one of my hare-brained 
projects using leftovers: 
leftover scrap plywood and house paint.

Here's where I started.....

I sanded the rough edges from a 22"X30" 

piece of plywood.

I still had a container of yellow kitchen paint. 

I gave it two coats.

I downloaded the bunny template from my
inspiration blog Serendipity Refined.
I increased the size to 300 on my copier.

I printed in four pages.
I cut it out and taped it together.

I traced it onto the board and painted it in 

with white paint I had on hand.

The bunny got two coats too.

I did this all outside by the pool

because the weather is heavenly.

I also printed the butterfly onto card stock,

 cut it out and gave it a crease.

I attached it to the tip of the bunny's nose

 with a dab of hot glue. I also painted in a
little grass...freehand and added the
teensiest bit of gray accent. 

Larry cut a piece of scrap plywood on the
diagonal to use for the hanging bracket.
 One piece is screwed into the wall and
one piece onto the back of the bunny. 

They lock into place when hung. 

We hung it outside on the wall next to our 

double entry doors.

I was going to add lettering down the left side.

S-P-R-I-N-G

But I'm leaving it as is...for now.

I'm thinking of doing this for each

season. So easy and the wall

bracket is up and ready for more.

Happy Spring!

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