Easter Basket Awesomeness - and a story.

I had a lot of leftover decorative eggs from my Easter wreath, and some ribbon that I didn't use. So I decided to make an Easter Basket!
 The basket I got was 50% off at Michaels... I was jumping up and down! Plus with my coupon I got an additional 40% off of my purchase. The hubby was looking at me like I was a crazy lady when I squealed and jumped up and down watching the $$ drastically reduce! If you can't already tell, I am a pretty happy -go- lucky person, and I get excited easily.

First I wrapped the handle with ribbon

I accidentally found out that if you take out the wire from the wired ribbon,...

It bunches up like this. Ha! I guess you learn something new every day, well at least I do. I glued the bunched up ribbon all the way around the edge of the handle, on top of the wrapped part.

then I started putting my leftover eggs in and some Peep brand stuffed bunnies that I found on clearance at Toys R Us.

added a gerbera daisy, my favorite

and voila, the finished product. The handle totally reminds me of a bonnet, and I think its cute! 

And now, if you would like to keep reading, a little story from my life :) :


 My cutest Grandma in the entire world has this lovely tradition: every Easter {after church} we go to her house and have an Easter Egg Hunt. She lays out in her ginormous yard a BUTT LOAD of candy, and different eggs with money and the amounts vary by age category. The youngest get quarters and the next get about $1 and so on. This year I am excited because 18+ get to hunt for money eggs. I usually only find a $20 {and I usually squeal because I don't normally get gifted $20} but others find $50's and the highest is $100! I've never found one, its really hard. My g-pa is super tricky and finds weird places to put them. But, in total there are 39 of us grandchildren, and almost half are over 18 so yeah, its a wild goose chase! haha! I love my family so much, when we all get together you have to yell just to hear! {oh yeah and the great grandchildren are growing too, it used to be just my brothers and sisters having babies. I have 14 nephews and 1 niece. Now there are 4 more babies from other families. My grandma is going to go broke buying candy! haha!}