Easter Decor for a Dollar

It's so much fun to go through the aisles of Target and fill your cart with cute-sy Easter knick-knacks.
But I want to show you how you can have cute Easter decor without spending an arm and a leg.

I came up with this arrangement using dollar store vases and printable vintage Easter postcards.

For this one, I put a few artificial flowers in a festive Diet Coke bottle.
(Have you seen those bottles? They're just too cute to throw away.)

I added a vintage postcard and set them both on a silver platter that I had picked up at a thrift store.
You could even use a trio of the bottles.
Easy-peasy.

To make the first arrangement, I bought three tinted vases at the Dollar Tree.

I put a few artificial flowers (also bought at the Dollar Tree) in all of them.

Then I set them on a larger silver platter and surrounded them with old coffee beans.

I searched Etsy for vintage Easter postcards and found these.

I printed them off and set them in menu holders that I found at a thrift store.

You could also use office binders or mini clothespins.

Then I set three of the postcards in front of the vases.
Nothing fancy, but cute!

Thanks for stopping by and God bless.

Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! 

Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.

Psalm 95:1

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Simple Easter Centerpieces

Need a last minute Easter centerpiece idea?

Take a look at these.
Simple, quick, and easy.
You may even have this stuff sitting around your house:

Easter grass, bags of candy, mason jars, and glass candle sticks.

 This one is a Ball jar with a small candle holder in the center which is surrounded by jelly beans.
I tied a simple piece of raffia around the opening of the jar.

Here are three small Mason jars with a bit of colored Easter grass at the bottom of the jars.
On top of the grass in each jar is an LED tea light candle.
A twine bow finishes off these cuties.

For this one, I placed an artificial nest on top of a glass holder, then placed eggs inside the nest.
This would be cute with lace-covered eggs, too!

This is a tall candle holder with raffia across the bottom
and eggs stacked up inside.
You can't get simpler than this!

This idea would be great as name card holders.
Just use Staz-On ink to stamp names onto the eggs.
Then prop the eggs on top of crystal candle holders.

Finally, how about placing a candle at the bottom of a tall candle holder,
then surrounding the candle with bunny Peeps?
Just make sure the candle is high enough above the Peeps so they don't start to melt
 when you light the candle.

Think how cute it would be to mix and match these for a very Easter-y centerpiece?

Here's a little secret: all the glassware above I purchased at a thrift store!

I hope you all have a lovely Easter!

Thanks for stopping by and God bless.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,

 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

John 3:16

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Button Cross Revisited

In planning some spring and Easter crafts, I happened across one of my projects that I did in the past

. . . a cross made from buttons.

 

To make it, I lightly drew a cross on a piece of muslin.

Then I used fabric glue and attached random buttons to fill in the cross.

To finish it off, I placed the fabric inside a frame and used rub-ons to put the word "Believe"

on the glass.

 

This would be a delightful project to re-create for Easter.

Think how pretty it would be with all white buttons!

 

You can go here to see the original post.

 

Thanks for stopping by and God bless.

The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,

and His ears are open to their cry.

Psalm 34:15

 

 

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