Burlap Bunny

Since Easter is right around the corner, I thought I would share the burlap bunny door hanger I made last week. It was super easy to whip up and cost me nothing since I already had all the supplies!

Burlap Bunny Door Hanger
|| supplies needed ||
- Burlap (about 1 yard)
- Paint (white, pink, and black)
- Scissors
- Hot Glue Gun
- Plastic Grocery Bags
- Tan Twine
- Tulle or Ribbon for Bow
- Florist Wire

- Cut out the shape of a bunny (or a flower or whatever you want your door hanger to be) from the burlap. Lay the bunny shape on the remaining burlap and cut out another shape for the bunny's back.

- Paint the whole front bunny shape white. Let dry. Paint pink on the insides of the ears. I used black puffy paint for his eyes and mouth, but regular black paint would work just fine. Let dry.

- Cut out a little nose from the burlap scraps. Paint it pink (don't glue it on to the bunny yet, even though my photos above show it already on there). Paint little pink cheeks on the bunny. Let dry. Hot glue the ends of twine to where the nose would be above the mouth. Glue the burlap nose on top of the twine.

- Start hot-gluing around the edges of the front and back pieces of the bunny. Go all around the ears and both sides of the head. I stopped when I had just enough of a pocket to start stuffing grocery store bags in it. Stuff a ton of bags in the bunny's ears and head, or until desired fullness. Hot-glue the bottom of the head all the way up.

- I used florist wire to make a hook on the back of the bunny to hang. I also made a big bow out of Tulle for the bow. And finished.

These burlap door hangers are pretty expensive around my town. A smaller one goes for about $40 or so. Yowza. I'm pretty proud of my free bunny, ohandplusalso my crafting skills.

Please disregard my dead ferns. I promise I just bought new ones after I took these photos. I don't have the best timing. Or green thumbs for that matter.

Bird's Nest Cookies Revisited

It's finally April 1st! But I'm not going to have any April Fool's jokes for you guys. I don't like all that nonsense. Ohandplusalso, this is officially my birthday month! ::fist bumps:: 

Since I want to go run outside and scream I LOVE APRIL and feel the warm spring sun on my face, I'm stopping in real quick only to share this yummy recipe. I blogged about these bird's nest cookies a few years ago. They are pretty much the perfect treat for both spring and Easter. Hey-oh!

Easter Buns

Here comes the obligatory and adorably awkward Easter Bunny shot. My Cadbury egg is melting from the cuteness below.

I also have a question that might also be a concern. Why don't Easter bunnies talk like Santa? What the eff? They are already creepy looking enough. And then they just look at you and wave? No hello? No goodbye? Just hand gestures for you kiddos. Adrienne had been so desperately wanting to tell him/her? the Easter Bunny about the spaceship she wants (my kid's expectations are high). I guess it didn't really matter that the Easter Bunny didn't talk. Adrienne stiffened right up and didn't move a hair when it was our turn. She was like a taxidermied kid that I had to position on the bunny's lap.

I ended up taking my own photos, because let's be honest, I refuse to pay 21 dollars for two lame photos the Easter elf? woman, who hates her life, snaps. My kid isn't even looking at the camera, lady. No, I don't want your crap photo.

Adrienne was also glued to her daddy's hip during our outing. From wanting him to ride the carousel with her, to him getting to ride in the caboose of the train, to wanting to sit next to him at lunch, they were pretty tight. She kept exclaiming that they were "best fwends." I was just the photog.

We also got to visit with our dear frands and their new baby. We really just went to pretend see them, but our main goal was to love on that little babeh boy. And goodness if the fever didn't set in. He was so perfect in every way. I pretty much wanted to kidnap him, but then I thought about how our two frands deserved all the greatness of that little being. And I won't have to change any diapers anytime soon. So it's pretty much a win slash win situation.

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Thoughts and a Bird's Nest Re-post.

This week has been such a long one. I usually don't like sharing super personal stuff on here. Especially depressing things, because, hey, I like to portray my life as one that's nothing but rainbows and unicorns and ish that never hurts. But, sometimes our world does hurt us. And sometimes it's so painful that you don't know how to deal. You eventually learn how to come to terms and your beautiful life goes on. Except there's a piece missing.

Death puts into perspective how short of a time span we have together on this earth. Please pray for us as a member of our family has passed away. 

Hug and kiss your favorites. Tell your friends you appreciate them. Enjoy your weekend.

If all that depressing talk has killed any appetite you might have had, go HERE to read this delish recipe to get it back.

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Mama May I

Adrienne is ahead of the game. I'm not even being biased. Her pediatrician said that she is way beyond a four year comprehension level. And she just turned three. She can count to twenty in Spanish, counts to fifty in English, recites and can also write out her ABC's, can spell and write her name, and knows where she lives. And she is a boss at the Subway Surfers app. Those are just a few of the things off the top of my head. Just give me the teacher of the year award now.

I couldn't really accept that trophy, though. I haven't even begun to actually "teach" her. She has basically picked up those things by herself. I have never ingrained anything. I focus more on fun. Like spelling her name out in a song. Or drawing pictures with letters. Being three should be all rainbows and unicorns. All. the. time. Okay. It really isn't. It's sunshine and glitter, like, less than half of the time. The other half deals with tantrums. And time outs. And lots of wine for me.

Since we are talking about schoolin' kids, let's talk about toys that teach. Mama May i, a company who specializes in learning toys, sent Adrienne a Chick A Dee play set. I am totally big on wooden toys. If you are an avid reader of my blog, you know that. I love how simplistic wooden toys are, but can hold a child's imagination longer than a plastic toy that yaps. Amiright or am I right? Right.

My child literally played with this bird and his bowl of eggs for an hour straight. The first thing she did was get her Little People fairy playhouse out, because it had a tree for the bird to nest in. Makes since. See? My kid is a genius. Then she hid the little eggs around the house and made the grown up kids, aka her parents, find them. If I would have known a little stuffed bird and wooden eggs would keep her so entertained, I'd have gotten some sooner. The more you know. I guess.

Mama May i has so many colorful wooden toys to choose from. Like this Fairy Friends set, which comes in all the different colors of the rainbow. How adorable is that? We adopt fairies on the reg and are always on the look out for new fairy habitats.

If you like the concept of Montessori teaching, you will love Mama May i. If you'd like to purchase any of these durable handmade toys, make sure to use the coupon code that's specially for Coffee and Cashmere readers. That's YOU. Enter CANDC at checkout for 15% off your total purchase (excluding shipping).

Now you really don't have any excuse not to do some online shopping. Get your Valentine's and Easter stuffers in one swoop or kill two birds with one stone.

Those puns were totes intended.

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Easter Wrap Up

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This holiday was a week long celebration over here. From dying eggs, to making treats, to having every blog post be related to anything Easter. I'm pretty much over it. On to muh birthday next week!

YOLK

I can’t even begin to express how peeling 30+ eggs to devil filled me with such a zest for life. Jay slash kay. I hated it. I did find out that older eggs peel much easier. Don't ask me why.

BEING A KID

Egg hunt.

EAT

Easter get together. Food for days.

CRAFTS

Easter art sesh. I love these little keepsakes. They make me oh so happy. Just color me two years old.

CANDY

The Easter Bunny came in full force. I was thisclose to taking the Cadbury Eggs for myself, but then I saw the little note on them. "Happy Easter Daddy, Love The Bunny." What the what? I totes didn't get any? It's okay, I'll shoot for next year.

Is Easter Over Already?

Easter has always been one of my favorite holidays. To me, it officially marks the end of winter. I've never been a cold weather warrior. I mean, Christmas feels like the whole month is in preparation for Christmas Eve and day. Thanksgiving I eat way too much. Forth of July is too hot and dangerous. Fireworks and boating. Danger. Hello. Halloween has always been fun, but I have a feeling it's going to be work now with a child that needs to go trick-or-treating. 

Anydon'tskimponthecadburyeggs, I just love Easter. I enjoy all the pastel colors. The flowers are in bloom, spring is here, and the Bunny isn't near as scary as Old Saint Nick. Plus, dying Easter eggs gets me all nostalgic. I feel like I'm an eight year old kid just looking at the things. 

I've added a few Easter decorations around the house. My arsenal isn't as full as I would like. But, then again, I am still new in the "grown up" stage. Now, it's time for them to all come down. I'm alreads depressed.

We inherited this bunny from William's parents. It says, "Be fruitful and multiply" on the bottom of the apron. Considering William's parents have eleven kids, I was a tad bit scared that this rabbit may possess some sort of crazy fertility power. I took my chances, and she came home with us.

Paper mache bunnies for days.

Shabby chic wooden sign. Heart it.

Love how Mama Bunny is bigger than Daddy Bunny.

Adrienne's Easter tree for her room.

Love Martha Stewart Living.

How amazing are these Lilly Pulitzer animal crackers? Nabisco is so fashion forward.

Easter chick. Read my blog post about this guy here.

Found this little twig of a tree at the Dollar Store. They have the ornaments there, too! Super score.

Baby Easter

Happy Easter you wonderful people. Here are some photos of my child last year at the same time. What a beautiful baby. Where in the world has this past year gone? I know I'm gonna be like this every time another holiday goes by, asking that same question. I mean, next thing I'll know, she'll be 14 (sans the whole bunny and basket thing) and wanting Birkenstocks instead. Everyone has them and not the ones from Walmart. Mother. Eww. And probably her own Nokia phone with a green snap on cover. And maybe even some power beads. Just because. 

Oh. Wait. See how fast time flies? Guess those fads are over. But, she will be demanding something. She is practically driving. Okay. She drives her scooter. But still. These years need to slow the fudge down.

Full disclosure: I still rock some power beads.