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Easter Gifts

Well Easter is always a fun time away for our family. We go to Katoomba Easter Convention with family and friends. It's a great time to spend together, celebrating Jesus death and resurrection which gives us such a great hope. I'm hoping to blog about the excellent talks we heard this year but I'll never do them justice - so just go and download them

This year I thought I'd be a bit creative and make my Easter gifts.

My inspiration came from this lovely website. My don't look quite as good but never mind. The jars were so easy, found them at a $2 shop and filled them with my favourite kind of eggs. The ribbons just made them look like I put some effort in! 
I thought the bunny tails I found here were hilarious.  I found the clear cellophane bags at a $2 shop and just printed the header onto card and coloured it in. The tails are marshmallows. I even included a little note that no bunnies were harmed in the creation of them, just to reassure my sister-in-law who has a very cute pet rabbit who is a well loved member of the family. 
Added a few other goodies and put them all in a nicely styled brown paper bag and job done. Easter gifts for 2012 I declare to be a success.



Dino the Dinosaur



Dino the dinosaur is my latest creation made from wool left over from the Union Jack cushion I knitted and a little bit of green I found at my favourite wool shop. The pattern was in a book I borrowed from the library called "Kitted Dinosaurs" by Tina Barrett.


This particularly creature is apparently a Spinosaurus, the largest meat-eating dinosaur. They had a sail running down their backs to disperse heat, attract mates and intimidate other dinosaurs. I have my doubts about dinosaurs in general, but we shall leave that for another blog post and just accept the above as doctrine - it was printed in a knitting book about dinosaurs after all!

I'm hoping to knit some more dinosaurs if the library will let me keep the book long enough. In the mean time, I hope the little boy who received this dinosaur for his birthday finds it to be lots of fun. When was the last time you received a knitted dinosaur for your birthday?!