Great How-To for this adorable puppet theatre found from Make and Takes.  Thanks Marie for the idea!

Use a candle holder to arrange the dyed eggs on.  So cute!

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Use plastic eggs or raw eggs (with the center blown out) to put in the vase of an arrangement.  If using plastic eggs, put something in them to weigh them down in the water, with a couple floating on top.  

These can be great name-settings: blow out the insides of a raw egg, make a hole big enough for the flower to go through.  Egg cups, napkin rings, votives can all be used to hold the eggs.

Images from here.

Thanks to all those participated in the giveaway.  And thanks to random.org for picking our random lucky winner.  Andrea Roche will be receiving the calander.  Andrea, please email me your address so we can get that mailed out to you. Enjoy!

Elegant Reader and event extroidinaire Jen Kehrer put on a babyshower for her best friend.  

The vision: A place where butterfles might want ot live.

I think you captured that beautifully!  Everything she did was handmade–from the tissue paper “poofs” hanging on the walls, to the flag banners, water bottles, Rice-crispy rattles, games, food, table cloths and center pieces.

My personal favorites from this event are the Rice-crispy rattles and the flower puffs.  You can find the puff tutorial here.  Her space was limited, and she had to fit 20 guests in! However, it doesn’t look overcrowded and stuffed at all…infact, I love how intiamte and cozy it looks.  Thanks so much for sharing these great ideas with everyone! I love getting emails from my readers and I especially love to share what they have to offer, keep them coming!

Paper butterflies made from vintage magazines.  Fun weekend project how-to found here.

Anybody heard of Stories by Me? It’s a fun and new way of preserving your memories…besides in your memory book.  Not only are their kits great for your own family, but they can also be great gift ideas.  Stories by Me would like to give one of their kits to a loyal Elegant Reader of mine.  The lucky winner can pick between the Memory Calender Kit or Memory Tree Magnet Board Kit. 

Memory Calender: Here’s a calendar that will never grow old. We’ve finished the base magnet board and provide enough materials for you to complete the daily buttons, plus up to nine family faces. Feature more face buttons with an extra button packet. Monthly tags are displayed behind a rustic metal plate. This is sure to become a treasured keepsake!

Memory Tree Get your Memory Tree kit and start hunting for family pictures. Our kit provides enough materials to display three or four generations. The featured faces are magnetized, so it’s an easy way to learn family lineage

The winner will be randomly picked and announced next Wednesday.  All you have to do is comment below to qualify.  To get FIVE more entries in the drawing all you have to do is blog about this giveaway and link to it.  Good luck my Friends!

I remember growing up with silhouttes of all seven kids on the wall.  My mom would “update” them everytime we’d go to Disneyland.  I still rembmer the shop off the Main Street in Disneyland; trying to sit incredibly still while the artist tries to draw the silhouette.  For some reason there’s just something a little mysterious about a silhouette.

All photos courtesy of Country Living.

Fun little afternoon sewing project for you or your kids.  Only $12.

I love this garland made by Whitney Deal of Darling Dexter for Style Me Pretty.  Was that confusing enough?  Anyway, the colors are so bright and classy.  Like I said earlier: I’m a fan of being festive for holidays, but not being cheesy.  This epitomizes it.  Step by step directions with pics found here.

Lovely poster by Dwell studio, found on Graham and Brown’s site.  Although, I’m sure someone crafty can make it for much cheaper.  Anyone want to try?

Umm, how cute would this be for your next kids’ birthday party?  From their site:

Adorable tape by Japan’s Shinzi Katoh boasts almost 50ft of happy friends to add to your next wrapping, packing or decorating project. Enjoy an entire roll of ring around the rosie!

A beautiful blog on a talented crafter and her budding business.  I love reading her experiments and real-life lessons.  Thank Shannon for making beautiful things.

Ooh La La! I’m so excited for Amy Butler’s new spring line. I can’t get enough of her patterns.