Pinterest Fun

So I finally caved in and got a Pinterest account.  For a long time I resisted because 1) I thought I would probably waste waaaayyyy too much time on it, and 2) I was afraid that it would make me feel really horrible about myself for not being as creative and talented as other people.  But I gave in when I wanted to start looking for ideas for St. Patrick's Day themed stuff, and I've actually done pretty well at resisting falling into the aforementioned traps.  I also gave myself a rule that I couldn't pin anything I couldn't see myself ever actually doing or using for inspiration.  And so, this little project was born:

I'm not so sure I like the gray tulle bow.  I may be changing that soon...

The idea on Pinterest was to have a jar that you put notes of all the good things that happen that year in, and you open it and read them all on New Year's Eve to remember what a great year it was.  So since we're a few months into the year already, we took a Family Night and listed some of the good things that have happened so far.  Then I painted the jar lid (white was the only paint I had on hand; otherwise it would have been much more exciting) and tied a bow around it and voila! I'm pretty excited for New Year's Eve so we can go back and read them all :).

Easter 2013

For our first Easter as a married couple, Chrisser had to teach me how some things work.  Like the Easter Bunny.  The Easter Bunny never came to my house growing up, so I had never gotten an Easter basket (I did get lots of candy and coins from the egg hunt at my grandma's, so I wasn't completely deprived of Easter festivities, just no baskets).  So I didn't really know what comes in Easter baskets.  I also didn't know that the Easter Bunny leaves jelly bean trails behind.

Luckily he told me about this before Easter.  We were each other's Easter Bunny, but since our apartment is so small I only had one room to work with.  So even though the jelly bean trails are usually rather loose (basically just showing what rooms the Easter Bunny had been in), there was an actual trail leading around the room where Chrisser's basket was.

I couldn't figure out what to put in it besides candy, so his wasn't the most exciting basket.  I'll do better next year, I promise!

Unfortunately that made it so Chrisser didn't have to search very hard for his basket.  Maybe we'll come up with a better system next year.  Chrisser had the whole rest of the apartment, though, so his trails were much looser and my basket was much harder to find.  I finally found it up in the corner of our storage closet.

I hadn't done my hair yet, so uh, don't pay attention to that...

Later in the day we dyed Easter eggs.  We had lots of fun with that.  This was another thing Chrisser taught me:  normal crayons work on eggs.  For some reason that had never occurred to me before, so I was super excited about all the new colors and stuff I could use.

Mine are on the left, Chrisser's are on the right.

We had just finished our last eggs when we got the idea to do minions from Despicable Me.  So of course we had to boil some more...

Oh, and for a couple weeks leading up to Easter I had these window stickers up, too.  They were fun, even though no one could really see them since we're on the second floor and this window just overlooks our balcony.  Oh well.