Enchantingly Easter (:

So Easter is this Sunday.  I'M SO EXCITED!!  I always love Easter.  The spring flowers, sunshine, and it's just a light, sweet, and wonderful holiday. (:  So here are a few things that I love to do for Easter that are easy and super adorable. (:

Dip Dye Hard Boiled Eggs

First off, an all time tradition that's really great and fun for all ages would be dying the eggs. 

 All you need to do is hard-boil some eggs, then set up a few different colored bowls of food color dye and dip them in.  Sometimes you have to dip the a few times to get the color you want but it's really a great fun project for the littles if they want to get involved in the cooking. (:

 Just be sure to set it up where the dye wont stain anything.  Then you've got cutely colored eggs for eating and making deviled eggs with. ;)

If you want to get creative with it and have some extra time you could also take some silver or gold sharpie markers and put designs on some solid colored eggs for a little extra flare. (:

 Dip Dye Ballet Flats

 Now I really love this one.  It takes a bit more effort, but I saw someone doing it and I thought it was super smart.  Easter is full of light colors and there's nothing better than matching shoes so why not customize your shoes?

Materials:

- ballet flats (mine are poly satin and faux suede from H&M, but works best with natural fabrics like suede and cotton) (similar here)

- RIT liquid dye ( purple, fuschia, and teal)

- sponge brush

- measuring spoons

- gloves

Steps:

1. Create your dye baths. First, boil water. You will need about 4 liters.  For the fuschia dye bath, pour about 1 1/4 liters of water, along with 3 tablespoons of salt into a container. Then, add about 3 tablespoons of fuschia RIT dye. For the purple dye bath, pour about 1 1/4 liters of water, along with 3 tablespoons of salt into a container.  Then, add about 2 tablespoons of fuschia RIT dye and 3 tablespoons  purple RIT dye.  After, for the teal dye bath, pour about 1 1/4 liters of water, along with 3 tablespoons of salt into a container.  Then, add about 3 tablespoons of teal.

2.  If your ballet flat has a bow, you can tape it to the inside to prevent it from dying. Then for the fuschia/pink ballet flat version, quickly dip the front end of the flat into the fuschia dye bath. Then dip only about 1" into the dye bath for a couple minutes, so the tip of the flat is richer in color. Let this dry. For the purple/teal ballet flat version, quickly dip the front end of the flat into the purple dye. Then dip only about 1" into the dye bath for a couple minutes, so the tip of the flat is richer in color.  

3.  To finish up the purple/teal version, paint on the teal dye with the sponge brush.  Leave a gap of about 1 1/2" unpainted.  

4. Afterwards, run the sponge brush under water until fully clean. Then, paint on water at the edge to smoothen the ombre. Let fully dry.

((From: swellmayde.com))


String Easter Eggs

These are the coolest.  I really love these and they're actually not too hard!

     

Just stick a chocolate or piece of candy in the water balloon and then mixing either craft glue or mod-podge glue with water and dipping the string into it to wrap around the balloon.  When it's dry, pop the balloon and you've got yourself a string Easter egg!

You can also make larger ones for decorating purposes by using bigger balloons. (: 

 Construction Paper Bunny Ears
Pretty plain and simple.  I'm pretty sure everyone made those Indian feather ones in grade school and this is pretty much the same.  Just grab a stapler, some scissors and some white (or brown if you'd prefer a brown bunny) and pink construction paper!

Bunny Cookies

This is for all the bakers.  If you are making some Easter cookies and you'd like to personalize them to make everyone compliment you, you might like this idea.  Hardly takes any time at all.  Quickly clip a bit for the ears and poke little eye dots to make your cookies little bunny babies. (:

I really hope you all enjoyed these ideas!  Even if you don't make them, reading about stuff you wish you did is still fun too. xP  Hope you guys have a bright and pleasant Easter. (: 

Truly yours,

Belle

P.S.  I will not be posting tomorrow which is Good Friday, or on Holy Saturday.  I hope your weekend goes well and you all rest up, unlike me, who will be working two shifts and on Easter Sunday.... *hd*  Heaven help me.  xP

The Key To Keys

((Sorry re-posting for technical issues))

Hey so I decided I wanted to start doing some DYI posts. *waits for the applause*

*continues when none comes*
There's quite a few things that I do that I think are pretty great and I was so happy when I thought of or saw someone else doing it.   So I'll be posting some DYIs in the future.  Hope you like them!

I know guys, I know, I'm so great, cause no one else in the history of man kind has ever thought of putting up do it yourself posts. xP

Alright, so, *claps hands together*  Let's get started with a simple one that's really useful.

So, I'm the person who always gets to my door and remembers after I smash my nose into the door that I need to get my key to unlock it.  But then I have to stand there jugling a million things while at the same time trying to find the right key out of this:

 So what I decided to do was be smart and get different coloured permanent markers and just sharpie them so that I knew which ones were which.  But unfortunately sharpies don't apparently work on metal and it all rubbed off giving me a black thumb.  Quite Literally.   So, I had pretty much given up until I saw a picture online of someone who was so much smarter than me!

They were completely genius and used nail polish.  So all you have to do is put a coat of nail polish on and maybe a layer of clear to make it shiny and they're cute and stupid proof!

You can also do cute designs and customize them if you want. (: Pretty much the options are limitless. 

So yeah, there you go!  Hope it helps you next time you're standing at your door and you have to find your key in a key factory. xP

Truly yours,
Belle

For I Am A Fool

Happy Belated April Fools Everyone!  

So, I love April fools, but I hate it when it goes extreme in both ways.  First way is when people get way too offended bye small cute and funny pranks.  It's all good fun and people should chill out.  But I also hate it when people get way to intense with their pranks and they become mean.  I don't like the ones that make you gag, such as anything to do with your toothbrush, unless it's just putting a bit of dye into the toothpaste but when people go all out and are horribly mean it's just not fun anymore.  So Here are a few cute, fun and easy ones you can do in like two seconds that will anyone think twice. 

Also, I know they're all fun because I've fallen for all of them before.

Dye your milk. ;)  Green is more fun and a lot of times makes people wonder if they should drink it. :P  

Put some tape under the mouse. You'll be a devious little devil and watch the victim get all frustrated thinking that the computer is frozen. :P

This, well, this is just perfect.

Okay so you love your best friend and you love prank calling, so here's an amazing way to get a nice punch in the arm that shows how much your friend loves you back. xP  Maybe leave out the 50 bucks bit though, I'm savin' up for college, I gotta be stingy. xP

This just makes me laugh so much. xD

This is really easy and really great.  nail Polish on the soap bar.  They'll wonder what the heck happened.  But you might go in later and be a victim of your own deed if you're not careful. :P

Okay and I know this one you would never do but it just cracks me up and I thought I'd throw it in here. xP

Hope Everyone had a great safe April fools day!

Truly yours,

Belle