knitted bunny

Is it too late for bunny crafty things? (I don't think so..) Here's one I recently finished. I got the pattern from this book.

Remember this post? I gave myself a challenge to make at least 4 things from my older craft books and 2 things from my newer ones before I can buy any new books. Well, that didn't really work, because I have since bought even more (oops). But I'm still working on that little challenge, and this bunny is the 4th project from this book (The other ones are a bit boring and not really worth showing, but I did post a photo of the drawstring pouch in this post).
So, isn't he cute? The directions were pretty simple; I didn't use the two circular needles like they recommended, I just used a set of double pointed needles and it worked out fine. And I added a pom-pom tail, because what kind of bunny doesn't have a little puffy tail?

coffee cake

I hope you all had a great Easter! We did... how can you not have a good time when chocolate, mimosas, and lots and lots of baked goods are involved? Our family gets together for an Easter brunch, so every kind of breakfast food you can think of we had.. and then afterwards we had dessert too!
I was to bring a coffee cake. I have a big bag of frozen raspberries that we picked last fall that I thought I'd use. I found a recipe for raspberry almond coffee cake on allrecipes and it was really tasty. I think everyone liked it. And it actually looked like a coffee cake! I wasn't really expecting that.

I'm a guest blogger today on Cathe Holden's blog, Just Something I Made (a warm welcome to those of you who are visiting from there!). Cathe is incredibly creative and she does some amazing things with clip art. I'm always inspired when I visit her blog.

I put together a little tutorial to make a business card holder. You can check out the post here, or download a PDF version of the directions right here.

Happy Easter!

love, Charlie and me. :)

more easter crafts

- sew a bunny Easter basket at disdressed (top left)
- craft some fabric covered eggs at V and Co. (top right)
- make a fabric egg garland with Make It and Love It (bottom)
- whip up adorable DIY Homemade Marshmallow Peeps with Twig & Thistle
- print chick party favors from Martha
- sew a chenille Easter bunny softie from Smooch Designs
- find a whole lotta bunny love over on LollyChops
- print and stitch a free egg embroidery pattern from Bird Brain Designs

easter crafts

(photo from Curbly)

Some Easter/spring inspired things to make or print:

Learn to dye eggs naturally at Curbly (pictured)

Print some cute Easter gift tags from babalisme

Make faux-chocolate bunnies from Martha

Knit Easter finger puppets at the Purl Bee

Craft little chicks from pom-poms with Fiona Carter

Download free Easter embroidery patterns from Tangarang

Make a wheat grass centerpiece with Martha

Make paper tulips with cheeky magpie