Easter Gift Idears

Well with Easter only a couple of days away now I'm super excited as it's our little misses first and our very first as a completed family. I've been browsing the web in search for the perfect gifts for our little ones. Lets face it we really don't want to be filling our 2 year old and 7month old's basket with a heap of chocolate. So what does the Easter bunny like to give younger kids for Easter??
Take a look at my favourite picks below. I'll be giving not only our little ones a few of these but also the youngsters amongst our extended family these gifts rather than chocolate this year.

GIFTS FOR BABY
1. A gorgeous Jellycat Bashful Beige Bunny (from LimeTree Kids)

2. A bunny Rattle (from Peti Luxe)

3. A Bunnykins security blanket (we got ours from Target)

4. Some supper soft cute slippers (these ones were $6 from Best and Less)

5. A Baby Record Book. There are many beautiful first year book's available from a variety of book stores, Kmart, Target or Big W.

Looking for something DIY...

Why not sew up one of these adorable little bunny softies using the tutorial and pattern from the very talented Melanie over at The Crafty Cupboard.

GIFTS FOR TODDLERS
1. A Melamine egg shaped plate ( we got ours from Myer)

2. Egg shaped Chalk (we purchased ours from The Reject Shop)

3. Any Easter or bunny themed book. (Ours are 'Snuggle Time' and  'Snuggle Bunny' both purchased from Target)

4. You can find a variety of Easter/bunny themed PJ's in stores right now but we love these from Snugglebum.

5. A growing egg. I can not wait to see our toddlers face when he sees the little chick hatch from the egg. ( I purchased ours from Spotlight and are also available in blue)

Looking for something DIY...
Try making some pretty home made play dough in soft shades of lemon, strawberry and lime just like featured by Ness over at her wonderful blog One Perfect Day

So tell us.. What little gifts will fill up your kid's baskets this Easter?

Until next time smile, take care and be happy

Our Girls Nursery Makeover

Well its been 7 months since our little girl graced us with her presence and now its time to move her into her own room. Yes I admit I'm a bit selfish when it comes to bubs and I really find comfort in having them in our room. Our first bub Lachlan stayed in with us till he was 8 months old. However as our little miss is now sitting and pulling herself up it is no longer safe for her to be in her crib and so the fun of setting up her own room begins.

 

Before I started I did many hours of research (Pinterest browsing). I found so many ideas and wanted to do them all! Of course this was just not practical and the bank balance would never allow for it. So I started of with what we already had.

 

I had purchased a lovely cabinet a while back in the hope to turn it into a sewing storage space however since us moving it has not been used as all my sewing goods are still in boxes (disgraceful I know). So since it was sitting there empty I decided why not give it some love and use it as a change table. It works perfectly.

 



Next was to purchase a cot. Ever since having our first 2 and a half years ago I wanted a sleigh cot. So as our girl is our last bub I took the now or never approach and got what I wanted. I wasn't disappointed! I had a great little helper to put the cot together and it was relay simple.   

My little helper

Our little Miss exploring her cot

I purchased a tree wall decor stickers to put up on her wall. I really don't know how I was lead to believe that this was going to be an easy task. All I'll say is that I'm a person with a lot of patients nevertheless this put me to the test. Fiddly, annoying and grrr worthy is my conclusion.




Wall sticker not playing nice... crinkling
and bubbling at every opportunity

I survived and managed not to swear in front of the very repetitive Mr LJ. There was however a lot of cursing going on inside my head. None the less the tree and birds looks wonderful and I'm very glad I spent the day to put it up.

We were given spare birds so I found a home for them along the bottom of our blind. I also found a gorgeous dona setting from Target that matched perfectly for her cot.

 

In the corner above her cot I added two tissue paper pom poms along with a birdcage that I had purchased from Kmart some time ago. And to complete her cot area I hung up the netting that was once over my bed as a baby.

As our kids are lucky enough to have there very own toy room there was no need to have toy storage in Charlotte's room. However I decided to added a little play picnic corner to house some of her teddies along with her picnic tea set and a gorgeous vintage tray. I can see our little miss enjoying a picnic tea on her rug with her teddies sometime in the distant future.

 

 

And so there you have it.. our little girls nursery.

I'm sure it will be forever evolving as she grows but for now I adore this space and can not help but grin each and every time I enter the room.

 

Next job... to finish organising her wardrobe. Stay tuned!

 

 

 Till next time stay safe, be happy and smile

  

 

Decorating for Easter

I'm super excited to share with you all our very first Easter decorating.

I've been looking forward to decorating for Easter for a while now and have had to be very strong not to go silly and buy everything I see, even though I really wanted to.

It was very hard for me to take the more sensible approach to decorating for Easter only buying a few items. I then browsed through what goods I already had that could be turned into Easter deco goodies.

And here is what I've come up with....

The first Easter deco to be put together was our mini lolly buffet. It was super easy with the gorgeous Woolworths bunny candy jars along with two jars I already had in our party cupboard. I placed all five jars on to a white tray (again already something we had) and to add a little colour popped some green tissue under the jars. I then filled the three smaller jars with m&m's, marshmallows and bananas, chosen to match our pink, blue & yellow colour theme. I also wanted something other than chocolate in each of these as I just knew our Mr LJ who is two and a half would not be able to keep his little hands off them.

In the other larger jar I put some berries & cream milky ways as they just sounded yum and I had to try them. I the RHS jar holds some polystyrene egg's that I painted. I had seen adorable spotted eggs around and wanted them so bad hence when I found that I had polystyrene eggs in the cupboard I knew exactly what I wanted to do with them. Lucky I had never gotten around to making the into Xmas baubel. (post on making them coming soon)

Included in our Easter buffet decorations is a cute little bunny tail bum. I actually got this idear from an Easter cake I had seen and decided to try make it into an ornament. It's suppose to be as if the bunny is digging into the table... I think it worked!

When I saw this free Easter printable from Love a Rhino I was so excited. It was just the piece of subway art that I was after. So easy just download, print and place into a frame - done!

Now to my big project.. an Easter tree.
I had drooled over ones in shops like Bed Bath n Table and adored others trees like the beautiful Clair's from The HOME She Made. But my challenge was to come up with one without spending any money. I had a Kaisercraft Fmily Tree on my 'to do' list for ages and had never gotten around to actually doing it. So I thought why not turn it into an Easter tree instead. And so I did!

Under our tree I have a Happy Easter hanging sign along with a small cute globe bunny.

 

 



To finish off I added one cute green bunny along with three little tin pails (purchased from Woolworths) and borrowed my cook book stand in order to hold our Easter reading and activities books. I left our believe wall hanging there as Easter is all about believing so I thought it was fitting.

 

And so there you have it.. out very first decorations to help us celebrate Easter.

 

 

 

Do you decorate for eater? If so what decorations have you added to your home?

 

 

Until next time take care, smile and be happy.

^YKylie