Embroidery Thread Easter Eggs

Happy Wednesday, ladies! As I said a few posts back I have a couple non-polish related posts I am planning on sharing. Today is one of them.

I have been on a huge Pintrest kick lately taking ideas for food, crafts and decorations from this awesome internet sensation. I did have a post back around St. Patrick's Day where I made some Pintrest food and a Peeps Wreath when my sister Jessica came to visit. Over the Easter holiday, Jessica and my parents came to visit and us girls did another cute craft we took from Pintrest.

embroidery thread easter eggs

Here is the tutorial Pintrest link for these cute eggs. We made one big change with ours in that instead of using fabric stiffener we used Mod Podge since I already had some. The Mod Podge was very messy, but we didn't mind. Although, it was a bit difficult to remove the balloon at the end when it dried. Here are some pictures of making these eggs:

blown up small balloon hung with thread and ready to work with

my Mom adding her Mod Podged embroidery thread over a balloon

some of the completed eggs hanging to dry

This was a fun and fairly simple, if not messy, craft. We always used to decorate Easter eggs when we were growing up as a family, but in the last few years we have fallen out of this habit. This year it was like us girls got to decorate our own homemade "Easter eggs" so it was fun! I also think they turned out very cute. The fabric was still a bit malleable at the end after it was dried, so maybe the fabric stiffener would have been the better option, but I am pleased with the end result.

I don't plan on making this my last post about Pintrest, so I hope you don't mind! Enjoy your evening and thanks for popping by!

Wicked Weekend

Hello, ladies! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. My oldest sister, Jessica, came to visit from Maryland to come see Wicked with the hubby and me. It was a fantastic show which I have been yearning to see since it came out! We went on a small Sally's trip and did our nails and then we had what my sister proclaimed to be a "Pintrest Day". We chose crafts and food found via Pintrest and made a day out of it.

First, I will start with our polish haul.

We dug into the China Glaze Magnetix display and each chose 2 colors because their special is buy 2 Magnetix get the magnet free. I grabbed Drawn to You and Attraction while Jessica nabbed You Move Me and Cling On. We both tried to swatch and didn't have much success. You Move Me is a blue that had the best effect with the magnet. My purple, Drawn to You really seemed like a dud. Many of the reviews on this collection say the magnet it weak and maybe that was why we were struggling. For now, these polishes will go un-swatched though. The other polishes in the picture are 2 Savvy polishes that were on sale 99cents each: Gotcha Grape and Totally Teal, then the  mini polish up front is a Sally's scented polish: Lime. We both bought new nail buffers and my sister renewed her Sally's card and got a free ion product, she chose their dry shampoo.

Now just some random photos from our "Pintrest Day!"

link to Pintrest tutorial

fried egg in orange pepper with candied bacon and St. Patty's colored deviled eggs

hasselback potatoes

Chicken Pot Pie mini biscuit muffins with kale

Here are links to the pinned food tutorials: baked hasselback potatoes, chicken pot pie biscuit muffins, fried egg stuffed pepper.

We unsuccessfully attempted to make a homemade face mask as well out of peaches and honey and yogurt, but it didn't turn out. We both also did St. Patty's themed polishing while we were watching The Big Bang Theory, but I will post those pictures in a separate post.

Check back in later today for her mani and my pedi! Thanks for stopping by! I hope you can find Pintrest as inspiring as we did. :-) It's great fun!