Easter Wild

Rabbits, candy and eggs, oh my! 

Growing up in the old world, Easter was never about rabbits or eggs, it was about...what you would expected it to be about!  Soon after moving to the US, I became enthralled with the promises of candy at every holiday.  Easter, was no different.  Even as an adult, I look forward to eating egg shaped chocolate, coloring eggs, doing egg hunts and don't even get me started on bunnies...

Bun-buns!

Fluffy is a cute buns with an attitude and she is the newest addition to my sister's home.  Fluffy used to like exploring the house, but now she has become bratty and will only leave her cage if you lure her with treats. 

Buns bread

Easter for me was filled with lots of food and dessert.  As a result, I ate too much and ended up feeling guilty for trying all of the sweets.  I decided to bake red velvet cake with chocolate pudding filling and decorate it with a fluffy butter cream frosting.  It was simply delicious.  

If there is one thing you must know about me, it's that I am clumsy and have awful luck.  After stressing 2 hours on baking and preparing the below cake, it fell apart on the drive to my Easter gathering.  You can see the left side collapsing.  :(  Don't you just hate when this happens?

Nonetheless, the cake was tasty.  

In celebration, I even painted my nails to look like Easter eggs.

I hope all of you had a wonderful day, full of food, laughter and good people!

Easter Decoration

Spring is just around the corner and nothing is more beautiful and refreshing, than seeing the flowers spring up and blossom.  Spring invokes images of green, sunshine, flowers and pink and white blossoms.  It's simply divine!


As a countdown to spring, I picked up an Easter tree from Target for only $2.50.  If you don't celebrate Easter, there are plenty of other ways to decorate a tree that aren't tied to Easter.

Easter tree from Target ($2.50)

To create a simple and affordable decoration for Spring.  Simply purchase an Easter tree from the dollar section of Target. 

Next, purchase egg decorations from the Dollar Tree ($1.00), or make your own see here.  You could stop at this step...

Or add a ribbon to bottom of the tree to give it more color!

Total cost for tree decoration with ribbon is $5!

As mentioned, you could decorate the tree and substitute the Easter eggs with other items to symbolize spring like butterflies (also available at Dollar Tree) or flowers! 

I hope you enjoyed my easy decoration idea as much as I did putting it together for you.