Okio B Designs

Wouldn't you know it? We're gearing up for what I hope will be the last snow storm of the season. I'm keeping myself busy by making some Frenchy peat pots.

I didn't want to make these too Easter-y as I will likely keep them out all year. So instead of adding bunnies and chicks, I added some French book paper, lace and buttons.

And just because Easter is a few weeks away, I did add an egg and a Dollar Store bird - who has apparently seen better days. Lol! Luckily, they can easily be removed and swapped out with something else.

I really am obsessed with peat pots. So easy to make and so stinking cute.

I pick them up whenever I see them at a local garage sale or I stock up by ordering them from Greenhouse Megastore. They have a great variety and are reasonably priced. I am not being compensated for mentioning them - I just really love their stock and prices!

I have a few more in the works, but for now I'm loving these new ones!

Jeanine

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I wanted to make a simple banner for our front door. After searching Pinterest for some cute Easter designs, here's what I came up with.

I have a ton of this leftover muslin so I cut a large square of it to use as my backdrop.

Then I printed my bunny and the Happy Easter text to some TAP paper - reversing the images of course. After ironing the images on and letting them cool, I used fabric glue to add my banner to the wood dowel - which is a leftover from last summer. The boys used it to roast marshmallows. Ssshhh...don't tell them!

Once the fabric was secure to the dowel, I added some twine and hung it from our front door. Super duper easy! I would have preferred some black lettering for the Happy Easter but the touch of color is growing on me.

Jeanine

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I picked up some napkin rings a few weeks ago at our local thrift store. I finally got around to giving them a quick nautical makeover.

I started by using my handy hot glue gun and wrapping twine around the rings. Very tedious to say the least.

Once the twine was on, I used this great anchor rubber stamp I bought off Etsy last year to hand-stamp the image onto pieces of muslin.

I cut them down to size and clipped them on using some red safety pins. I have four more to do, and have to fix the top of the one I just noticed is showing some of the old napkin ring color. Doh!

Jeanine

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I had the perfect piece of muslin fabric lying around in the craft room. Just the right size for a little pillow.

I used this great bunny silhouette again from the Graphics Fairy. I used it a couple of weeks ago for a bunny banner.

I used TAP paper to apply it to my fabric. I probably should have done a better job of ironing my fabric first - doh! How did I miss that huge wrinkle on the left side????

Either way, now I have a sweet new pillow for spring/Easter.

Jeanine

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Photo courtesy of The Graphics Fairy

From this Irish lass to all of my bloggy friends!

Jeanine

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I never seem to have any luck finding old rusty tools during my garage sale shopping sprees. I popped by a random one and guess what I found? Yup, you guessed it...some old, rusty tools.

I love this ice grip (if that's what it's called!). Not sure where it's going to end up but for now it's hanging off an old pump in the yard. The pump still works!

You can never have enough pitchforks, can you? Or the heads at least.

I love this big one. Hoping to grow some flowers through it this spring. Still trying to figure out what to do with the other two. Might just safely prop them around the yard and pray my boys don't go near them.

Jeanine