LAST MINUTE EASTER IDEAS

Today I'm sharing a little LAST MINUTE EASTER INSPIRATION!

Most of these ideas are easy and don't take a whole lot of time... and can be used for this Easter!

C'mone! You still have time to get Easter creative and do one or two of these hippity-hoppity-Easter's-on-it'-way projects...

BUNNY FOLD NAPKIN DIY

Isn't this little bunny napkin adorable?  What a fun way to greet family and guest at an Easter gathering!

All you need is a freshly pressed napkin, twine, a button, a needle and some thread and a hot iron. I made 8 bunny napkins in just about 20 minutes!

With just a little effort and my step-by-step instructions you can make these way-too-cute bunny napkins for your Easter table too...

ONION SKIN DYED EGGS DIY

I make onion skin dyed Easter eggs each spring. This tradition has gone back generations and generations in my family.

Onion skin dyed eggs so easy and  even more satisfying to make. A basket of these almost magical eggs are a real treasure! Deep oranges, warm browns, soft terracotta. Not your typical Easter colors. But once you see them you will understand!

I hope you will make these beautiful, earthy harbingers of Easter and start your own tradition...

AN EASY EASTER TABLE~ USING A FORMULA

Last month I challenged myself to come up with a FORMULA for setting an easy, yet attractive table... and to use that FORMULA to create a table for every month of the year!

This month's table was a breeze to put together... and with just a few changes the same dishes, glasses, flatware and linens were transformed into a table ready for Easter Brunch...

NATURALLY DYING EASTER EGGS

An  Easter tradition, here at StoneGable, is to dye Easter eggs with onion skin. This practice goes back generations and generations in my maternal family. Not what most would consider a traditional Easter egg color, these eggs say Easter to me!

Onion skin eggs take on beautiful, deep rusty orange hues with lots of marbling and character. They are works of serendipitous art... each subtly different from the next.

I expanded  the Easter egg color palette a tad this year to include peach, purple and lavender too! I think there is room in the Easter basket for a couple new colors! Making these eggs is a soul-satisfying endeavor, and they are splendid... much richer and interesting than than dying eggs with store-bought dyes.

It's not too late to make a bowl or basket full of these beauties for your Easter table!

Onion Skin Easter Eggs

Click HERE to see a complete tutorial.

Peach Onion Skin Easter Eggs

Hard boiled eggs

Liquid from the onion skin eggs

Pour off the liquid from the onion skins into a deep cup or bowl. Dip hard boiled eggs in the liquid until it takes on the peach color you like. Transfer egg to an upside down egg carton to dry.

Purple And Lavender Dyed Eggs

I think these purple and lavender eggs are just gorgeous! I have never been satisfied with the purple store bought dye. It gets blotchy and streaked with red. I was very pleased with how evenly the naturally dyed eggs came out.

3 cups 100 % grape juice

1/8- 1/4 tsp Wilton purple food coloring paste

hard boiled eggs

Put the grape juice in a saucepan and heat till it is simmering. Add food coloring paste and remove from heat. Stir until the dye paste completely dissolves.

Transfer the purple dye to a large cup or bowl.

Dip the eggs in the dye until you get the color you desire. Transfer to upside down egg cartons to dry.

I hope you will try making these naturally dyed Easter eggs!

Just a note of caution. This is a grown-up activity due to the boiling liquids.

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BUNNY BREAD

When my children were little they called white bread "bunny bread". 

This bunny bread is hippity-hoppity easy and would be a delightful surprise with your Easter meal!

I was awe struck by the creativity of this fun bunny shaped bread when I saw them HERE  and   HERE. But I was not interested in making a yeast bread from scratch... or a sweet bread.

So, I put a StoneGable spin on the recipe and decided to see how refrigerator bread sticks would work... and they did!!!! Savory with a hint of butter and herbs, this bunny bread is so yummy... and cute! 

You don't have to hop down bunny trails to make this fluffy-tail bread!  Just get your paws on some refrigerator bread dough and begin!

StoneGable Bunny Bread

1 container refrigerator breadsticks

2-4 TBS butter, melted

herbs, chopped finely

sea salt

Preheat oven according to package.

Sprinkle flour on a work surface. 

Please indulge me... I love rice china. This is the measuring cup in my big jar of flour. See how the light shines through it? Pretty!

Unroll bread sticks on to the floured work surface. Separate into individual pieces.

I pinched the ends of each breadstick together slightly to look like bunny ears. Twist until you get the breadsticks configured like the photograph at the top.

Make bunny tails by breaking off a piece of dough from 1 breadstick. Roll it into a ball and place it in the center of the hole in the body.

Put the bunnies on a large parchment lined baking sheet and brush them with butter.

Bake according to package directions or until golden.  Remove from oven, brush with butter and sprinkle with finely chopped herbs and sea salt.

Soooo cute... ENJOY!

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