The Stone Rabbit

Fresh Eggs for Easter!

 

A few days ago, my friend Mary, gave me these beautiful fresh eggs she'd received from someone whose hens had been very busy!  

 

 

THE STONE RABBIT was so taken by their lovely soft colors that he arranged them in a little mound of sedum that's coming up!  It was the perfect place to admire their beauty for a bit without risking breaking them!!

We are certain the grand kiddos will enjoy seeing the beautiful fresh eggs, too. . . . before they are  cooked as part of our Easter brunch this weekend!!

 

 

 

We sure hope you will visit the other bloggers at Beverly's link HOW SWEET THE SOUND!!  They are ready with their weekly shares!

Happy Pink Saturday....and have a peaceful and blessed Easter, too!

DANA

Oh Happy Day.....the Pink Peeps Bunnies are Here!!!

 

THE STONE RABBIT and I were sooooo happy today when we saw these PINK PEEPS at Target!!!    Spring can't be far away!!

 

 

 

Hope you hop on over to Beverly's  blog HOW SWEET THE SOUND!!  There you will find many other bloggers who have their weekly shares all ready for you to enjoy!

HAPPY PINK SATURDAY!!

DANA

 

 

 

Happy Pink Saturday Easter Greetings!!

 

THE STONE RABBIT and I are putting finishing touches on our Easter preparations.  We  wish you and yours a great weekend. . . one that is filled with many blessings of the season and perhaps a great egg hunt!!

 

 

Please add a visit to Beverly's blog, HOW SWEET THE SOUND, to your weekend list of "good things to do"!!  There you will find lots of other bloggers who have Spring or Easter or PINKS to share with you, too!!

Happy Easter and Happy Pink Saturday!!

DANA

 

Easter Ready!!!

 

THE STONE RABBIT has been such a big help  getting the baskets ready for the three Grands this year!!   He LOVES Easter. . . .especially. . . 

 

 

when it comes to hanging out with the soft bunnies for awhile!!

They have such great chats in the days before they head off to live with the Grand Girl and the two Grand Boys!!

 

 

We hope you have a wonderful and blessed Easter. . .and a great Pink Saturday!!!  

 

Be sure you visit Beverly to see all of the bloggers waiting to share their Easter and PINKS with you this weekend!!

DANA

S'more Pink Saturday!!

 

We love PEEPS.....and we LOVE making S'mores out of PEEPS!!!

Last week, THE STONE RABBIT and  I made S'mores using Valentine PEEPS!! 

Just when we were having PEEPS withdrawal. . . .

 

 

 

THE STONE RABBIT found PINK bunny PEEPS!!! 

 

 

 

 We didn't waste a moment placing a PEEP on a graham cracker, topping it with chocolate. . .then popping it into the microwave for just a few seconds.

 

 

OOOOH.....the PINK bunny PEEP puffed up and the chocolate became soft . . . 

 

 

 

and that's when the other graham cracker was placed atop and smashed down to create the most yummy treat!!

 

 

Lip smackin' goodness!!!

 

 

Yes.....we LOVE those PEEPS!!!

 

 

 

And something else we love is PINK SATURDAY!!  We know you will too!!  Just hop on over to Beverly's blog, HOW SWEET THE SOUND , and you will be wowed by the number of other bloggers who are ready to share their PINKS with you this weekend!!!

 

DANA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pink Saturday Easter Memories. . . and two more tags arrive!!

This is a two part post this weekend!!  I'm late getting it on Beverly's blog because TypePad wasn't cooperating with me last night!  Anyway...it seems to be working this morning...so better late than never!! 

FIRST...Easter just came and went in a flash this year!!  

Heck....many of the Easters in recent years have come and gone just as fast!  I realize it the most when I look back at the thousands of photos we have taken of those special days and events and am just weak. . . seeing the changes that have taken place with our precious grand kiddos. . .in what does seem like the blink of an eye.

Just a year ago, our youngest Grand Boy was barely three months old.    Then he was content to snuggle and snooze as his big sister and brother ran around, snatching up the eggs in our front yard.

 

 

 

 

This year was a different story!!!

He's now a "toddler"!!  Yes,  he TODDLES!  I can't believe it when I watch him "toddle" around.  

He was so adorable as he steadied himself and enjoyed his first egg that the Easter Bunny had filled with Cheerios!!

Here he is. . .carefully squatting and balancing to snag his second Easter Egg. . . just as his big sister zipped by in her quest for more oval loot!!

 

 

Oh yes!!  The Grand Girl and one of her buddies simultaneously spotted the yellow egg in the tree!!!

What to do??? 

Well.....you JUMP for it!!  During the process of "jumping for it". . .the yellow egg fell out of the tree!!  :) 

My hubby was taking these photos. . .so I don't know who actually ended up with that egg!

 

This is her two years ago.   And just like this year, she was on a run to nab those colored eggs!!

 

Grand Boy #1 really had the knack of collecting and piling Easter loot in his basket!

 

 

Two years ago, this same sweet bunny, was happy to add eggs to his basket one at a time!  He was in no hurry to see how many he could get. . .he was thrilled with just a few then!   He took his time and savoured the experience!

 

 

Thought I'd toss in a little  "action photo" of the egg hunt!!  

 

 

 SECOND...I have to say that I'm loving the experience I'm having with our Circle Journal Easter Tag Swap!

I was so happy to receive two more tags this week!!!

 

 

Shelia of NOTESONGS created this little PINK beauty!!  She adorned the front with a wonderful handstitched bunny and soft ruffled trim!!

 

 

On the back of the tag she displayed the reason for the season!  

Thank you, Shelia.   I love your tag!!!

 I was so happy to find Jeanne's (BACKYARD NEIGHBOR) sweet tag in our mail box, too! 

She chose a vintage postcard as her inspiration for the front, then she surrounded it with old trim!

 

 

The back of the tag also features a vintage postcard image. . . LOVE the painting bunny...and how the trim from the front is seen on the back, too!

Thank you, Jeanne, for such a wonderful creation!

Here are seven of my eight tags!!  I will be so happy to receive the last one. . .then my Easter Garland will be complete!!

This has been another wonderful swap experience with such a great and creative group!

You can click  HERE to see details about the other tags. . .and the ones I made.

 

 

 

 

 

Please visit our hostess Beverly at HOW SWEET THE SOUND!   You will find a huge group of other bloggers who have PINKS to share with you this weekend, too!

DANA

Easter Tag Swap!

 

Our Circle of Friends Group just completed another awesome swap....an Easter Tag exchange! 

Here are the tags I made!  They're pictured with one of my favorite little vintage baskets. . .  and my favorite rabbit!!!

 

The front of the tags were covered with burlap, then embellished with a bit of lace trim at the bottom.  On top of that background, I added one of my favorite vintage Easter postcard images.

The little flower at the bottom is old and the "leaves" are made of dyed hem tape (one of my favorite ribbons these days).

 

 

 

The back of the tag has a brown paper base on to which I stitched green burlap (that comes in a ribbon form..but I removed the wired sides, then stitched away).  On each side of the burlap, I glued vintage yellow or beige tatting scraps I'd found at a local thrift store.

 

The image is my original STONE RABBIT picture I used when I started blogging nearly five years ago!  It's set atop a piece of brown paper that had been scalloped and glittered.  A little sentiment was added below that!

 

 

I hope none of my Circle Friends are allergic to kitties or concrete!!!  :)  These two just seem to always be interested in my projects!

 

I sent my tags out Tuesday (I'm always down to the wire with these swaps!!), so I hope they make them to the ladies by today (Friday) or tomorrow!!

The others in the group are generally better at getting their projects in the mail than me!!  :)

So far, I've received five of the eight tags and want to share them with you now.  I'll add the other three when they arrive!!

The first to reach me was Nancy's creation (My Crafty Little Page).

She is such a talent!!  Look at those bright, layered colors of paper (mine always seem so dark and drab next to hers!!)

I love the little glittery bunny, the text and vintage trim at the bottom!!

The back of her tag is equally as lovely!!  She used vintage flash cards with our individual initials and old German lithograph crosses...then added a wonderful bit of text on one side and sweet embellishments at the bottom.  Awesomeness!!!

Nancy is soooo amazing. Not only is she talented, but she's timely....she doesn't procrastinate like I do when it comes to getting these projects finished!!

Kathy's (Writer's Reverie) came soon after Nancy's!  

Isn't this just scrumptious?  The soft colors, the Easter images atop a small doily....and trimmed with a touch of lace!  She has such a way with creating gorgeous works of art!

Here's the back. She placed sweet images there, too, then added a little "flip up" book to the bottom!!!!

Just look at Susan's (Blackberry Creek)  sweet tag!!!  Such a springtime feast to the eyes!  I love the little picture she selected for the front....and how she surrounded it with flowers and sparkles and buttons and a great stamped sentiment!

 

She continued her PINKS to the back of the tag, too, with plaid  paper and floral trim!  Love how she placed a flower in the stamped basket!!

 

LaVerne (Riverside Studios) wowed me with her delightful tag!!  The vintage bunny image was placed on old sheet music, then surrounded by handmade paper flowers!  Oh my!  She is talented!!  I agree with Nancy, maybe she'll give us a tutorial on how to create such floral images!! 

 

The back is  great, too!!  I LOVE the old catalog image she included of a lady with an Easter bonnet (which cost a whopping $1.65!!!).  She then placed an Easter egg "plant" on the side and a sweet text about the hat...all on a mixture of papers! 

 

 

And here's Beverly's of HOW SWEET THE SOUND!!

How creative....she used an egg shape for her tag!!!

On the front she had a sweet little bunny sitting on some green papery "grass", with lots of glittery touches which included a sun and butterfly.  I just LOVE the surprise touch of the fluffy little chick, too!  So cute!!

 

The back of the tag has her hand written message and a pretty arrangement of fabric flowers!!  I also love her use of a single green plaid ribbon. . .it looks so springy!!!

This has been such a fun swap!!  It's awesome to share in the creativity of such great folks!! 

Please visit Beverly's blog, HOW SWEET THE SOUND.  You will find  lots more bloggers who have Eastery/Spring and Pink Saturday fun to share with you today!!

 

DANA

A SPRING SALE IN THE SNOW!!!!

 

From Thurs. evening thru Saturday, I'm participating in The Fleeting Flea Spring Sale 2013 in Overland Park, KS.

It's a gathering of about 40 vendors in and around a local clubhouse. . .sharing our vintage finds and handmade treasures!   By around, I mean . . .under tents. 

Being involved in such a sale is a tremendous amount of work and time.  

Pictured below with THE STONE RABBIT are a few of the necessary items needed to pull off such an event.

I need a dust pan and broom...in PINK of course...and some swell PINK gloves to protect my dainty hands as I lift and carry and haul many items from my van into the tent where my booth is located.

 

 

 

And here's my little corner of the world for three days in March!  It was a bit scary to see at first. . .tent flaps moving all over the place..part of my display space open to the elements.. .a hole in the ceiling of the corner. . .and a horrible weekend of winter weather predicted for the first few days of Spring.

After two trips to the sale site and many a load hauled in. . .the booth took shape just in time for the crowd of eager shoppers!!

 

 

OH....and because our temps were miserably cold and it was snowing and sleeting, I had to buy a little propane heater cuz if I hadn't had this little heat source I couldn't have survived the many hours of sitting in a tent, in March, in the snow and cold!!  :)

 

 

As our promoter said tonight in the "vendor's meeting"...we were in unchartered territory!  We were, after all, some 30 degrees colder than the average at this time of year.   AND....last year...it was 80 degrees when this sale was held!

 

 

 

My buddy Bonnie braved the elements and brought me extra propane and dinner and  spent the entire first evening of the show with me!!

 

 

I have to say. . .in all the years I've done sales. . .this has been the most challenging in terms of weather related issues.   The next two days are also gonna be doozies with more bad weather predicted.  Thankfully, there are lots and lots of customers who don't let a little cruddy weather dampen their desire to get out and SHOP!!  :)

I  give a big old shout out to my DIL and her buddies who spent several hours at the sale tonight.  It does my heart good to see the younger generation recognogize the value and beauty of vintage items. . .and to purchace pieces to add to their homes....  pieces that are unique and thrifty and individual to their own tastes!!

 

It also warms my heart to have younger folks appreciate handmade items (like I make :) .  I had a mom and her three children shop in my booth tonight.  They all came to the decision of what they wanted to buy (all my handfashioned Easter items).   Later, they returned to buy one more bunny to send to their Grandmother. . .and then she (mom)  asked if I would pose with the kiddos for a picture so the Grandmother could see who made the bunny they'd picked out for her.   And while huddled with those three sweet peas, I forgot about the hours it had taken me to make the items I had for sale,the expense of actually being involved in a sale (overhead), how exhausted I was after spending two days traveling and setting up and figuring out how to make the best of a really cruddy weather situation. . .because folks appreciating what I do really is what keeps me doing it!!

 

 

 

 

I also really, really appriaciate what Beverly of HOW SWEET THE SOUND does for us each and every week.   She consistently makes sure our little group of "pinkies" are up !!

Have a great Pink Saturday!!

DANA

The Return of Special PINKS!!!

 

They're baaaaaaaaack!!

That's right....the PINK PEEPS are back on the store shelves!!!

Sadly, a few of the ones in this box are missing their right eyes!!

That's OK.....I love 'em no matter what they look like!!

 

Just wanted you to appreciate just how much snow we've been dealing with over the last two plus weeks!!  We had back to back storms roll through leaving us with nearly 20 inches !!  Thankfully, we are having some warmer days this weekend (and some RAIN) so the melting should start to roll!

We are in a drought in the mid-west , so while the snow was not always welcome with what it did to our traffic or roofs (we had some fall in around town), it will certainly be appreciated by our lawns, gardens and farms!!  Actually..that grass beneath THE STONE RABBIT and his friends, THE PEEPS, is green now!!

 

 

Please visit Beverly at HOW SWEET the SOUND !  You will find LOTS and LOTS of other bloggers who are ready to share their PINKS with you this weekend!!

 

DANA

 

TOUCHES OF PINK ON EASTER DAY 2012

 

 This was the front of our house shortly after brunch on Easter morning!!!  

You can see that the big CHOCOLATE BUNNY (featured in last week's Pink Saturday) had decided he liked the view better from the front porch, so he positioned himself in a planter by the windows.

In fact that bunny was so excited because he was able to watch the Easter Bunny hide eggs all over our front yard while we ate our brunch!  If you look closely, you can see several of those eggs waiting for the two older grand kiddos.  

At the moment this photo was snapped, the two older Grands were eagerly waiting behind that closed door.....decked out in their bunny ears and holding their empty baskets....ready to fly out and snatch up the eggs!!!

 

 

The doors flew open and the kids flew out!!!  The hunt was ON!!!

You can see the Grand Girl wore her Easter Pinkness..right down to the bunny ears!!  She was a PRO at egg snatching this year....note she's going for egg #2 before putting egg#1 in her basket!!  Easter Egg Hunt Rule #1!!!

Grand Boy #1 loved gathering eggs this year, too.  Being three years younger than the Grand Girl, he's a little slower at it, but that's made up for by how much he savoured every little moment of the event!!

Grand Boy #2, who is now three months old, was all about "napping" on our girl's shoulder while his siblings nabbed the eggs.  :)  Next year. . . .he just might be ready to collect an egg or two!!

We had a wonderful "non-traditional" Easter dinner, too.  Our son grilled brats, Italian sausages and hot dogs. . . and awesome corn on the cob!!  Our DIL fixed scrumptious butter for the corn by combining Feta cheese, chopped fresh mint and real butter.  SO GOOOOOD!  We also had fresh asparagus!!  

All in all, it was a heavenly meal. . . our first "grill" of the year! And, because the weather was so perfect, we were able to dine outside on the patio!!

As I type this post, early on the Friday after Easter Sunday, the wonderful yellow tulips my son and his family gave us, are still gorgeous. . . a constant reminder of a perfect time together on Easter 2012.

THE STONE RABBIT told me recently, he thought he'd give our Easter Celebration 2012 a "10"!  Everything was great. . . the Easter service at church, the brunch, the egg hunt, the dinner, the weather. . .but most importantly the fact that we were able to spend quality time with people we love so very much. 

Please visit our hostess, Beverly, at HOW SWEET THE SOUND.  She will have a long list of fellow bloggers eager to share their Pink Saturday posts with you this weekend---lots of quality computer time is in store for you!

Happy PINK SATURDAY!!

DANA