Easter Bonnet Contest and a day with my Pals

1. Fancy Hat, 2. My Daughter wearing her Vintage Easter bonnet........., 3. Cute Little White Bunny, 4. Woohoooooo!, 5. Vintage Easter Chick Faux Cupcakes, 6. Beach Bun Belly Flop, 7. F. Stocks May, 8. Announcing_A Party!, 9. Springtime Mushroom House, 10. My Home, 11. Untitled, 12. bunny from Cotton and Paint #5, 13. The Cute Chicks, 14. minty duck, 15. Mucky Duck, 16. My Home

Seems I have a long list of things to do before easter comes

I just love easter, it may just be my favorite holiday

no, that can't be true 

I LOVE CHRISTMAS MORE!

But Easter is so sweet and pretty

I especially love to see how spring and easter 

inspire the such pretty new things

from sweet cookies and cakes

to little stuffed creatures 

and pretty colored eggs!

Last Friday my gal pals

Ashlee & Alissa

came over for a little girls day fun

We played at the fountain

and when the sun peaked out from behind the clouds 

we snapped a few pictures

I so wish the sun would come out more often!

The constant grayness makes me tired and lazy

What do you think of my easter bonnet?

made with yards and yards of sweet ruffly goodness

atop a vintage straw hat that I purchased at a thrift store

 months before I ever knew I would be entering a Easter Bonnet Contest! 

I call that some kind of magic, for I'm always picking thing up here and there

and I then giving myself little lecture

"why did you buy that Chelsea Ann"

"What will you possible do with that!"

but lately I've been finding all sorts of nifty ways to use my oddities

and this makes me very happy indeed :)

Voting for the Easter Bonnet Contest begins tomorrow and ends at midnight on Sunday

Please, Please show you support and take a moment to vote!

There are so many lovely bonnets just in time for Easter

My bonnet (hat) is available in my shop

and hopefully very soon I will have a few more

I'm working on a batch of small child size hats inspired by my big one

that I think you will be perfect for little flower girls 

or perhaps special tea parties

but once again we have so little sun 

and I can not properly photograph them at present :(

But I must figure out some solution this weekend

and I will have a whole batch of easter goodies

 to add to the shop by next Monday at the latest!!

ooohh and look what I found!

Chelsea Ling, my best internet gal pal 

interviewed ME for her new blog

Paper* Cakes Finds a few weeks ago

and now there is this pretty button on the side of her blog

I feel so honored to be in such good company as

Lorie Marie, Craft Pudding, and LoveleeSoaps and now Tim of Fantastic Toys!

Happy Friday everyone!

May you all be inspired by SPRING!