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Last edited by Vicki on Sun 02 Mar 2008, 9:44 pm; edited 1 time in total

Are you ladies still interested in doing this challenge? We totally missed it in February! If so would someone like to head it? Let me know please!
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Vicki

March is a really great Momth St Partick day and Easter year.
So many thing to do ..
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Gayla

"They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little."

---Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Okay how about we let each person choose which one they want to do and then post what they did?
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Vicki

Sounds like a good idea Vicki, it opens up the choices. I remember last year Teri sharing her lovely St Patrick's Day craft.
Also, it could be a craft or food huh?
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~ By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest. --Agesilaus ~

That sounds good...

March Craft Challenge is........

You pick food or a craft

St Patrick's Day or Easter!

have fun and don't forget to tell us!
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Vicki

so far I made those big muffin tin crayons ( for the little baskets) and I found some wonderful cookie cutter at a local store an egg shape and shamrock .

I am thinking of making some treats .. Gorp came to mind and
some candied nuts..
I found some little Golden books with Easter stories ..
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Gayla

"They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little."

---Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Great ideas gayla. I haven't even thought about Easter. Not sure what I am doing. I will have to figure it out soon though
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Vicki

I have so many to do I have to act fast .. my DH still expects me to make him a basket ..and for Sarah mission project this month she making up Easter basket for kids who family come to the food bank ...
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Gayla

"They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little."

---Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

That is so sweet Gayla.
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Vicki

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Easter is so busy as all or almost all of our treats are homemade in the kids baskets and I'm busy making decorations.. Smile

I LOVE and mean LOVE!!!! Spring!!!!

For some reason I just cannot get into the Easter mood. I love Easter but I think I am burned out on the whole basket idea. I have really cut back on our junk and sugar intake and hate to blow it with easter baskets.
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Vicki

I feel the same way about Easter treats Vicki,,I think Im gonna do a St.Patrick day challenge..not sure craft or food yet.

Moderator Age : 27 Joined : 12 Oct 2006 Posts : 1693

Well...for easter you could make really cool easter eggs...from real eggs...there not unhealthy? I know what you mean about the sugar...with Ty's ADHD we can't do a bunch od sugar either...it's tricky.

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I know this isn't a craft/food challenge idea...well, maybe it is a little Wink

...but home made fillers for Easter baskets brought back some memories of things that I have done in the past (25 years of being a Mom!!).
My Hubby has always been SO adament about NOT purchasing those premade baskets...i mean, sometimes I would either be so burnt out or tired or at a loss of what to fill the baskets with over the years, that sometimes those Walmart premade baskets would look SO cute to me!! But Hubby would always shake his head, tell me I could do whatever I wanted to of course, BUT...his disapproval of them was always hovering around me, so needless to say, I never purchased a premade basket for my kids, ever.
And wow! I would always end up filling them nicely, I would even take photos of them! (not digital way back when! Wink

).
Anyway, here's some of the things I have done for home made goodies:
Rice krispie treats shaped into balls with jelly beans added into the mix! (yummy & cute!!)
Peanut butter spread in between two ritz crackers & then dipped into chocolate (these were popular!)
Obviously, homemade chocolate candies shaped with candy molds (chocolate lollipops, etc.)
Healthy snacks like little pkgs. of pretzels, sunflower & pumpkin seeds and sugarless gum (found on sale of course.)
gorp/trail mix is a GREAT idea, Gayla!!
I also often get small items the day after Christmas for including in the baskets (can't seem to save them for the next Christmas when there are other gift-giving holidays during the year before Christmas! Rolling Eyes

)

Now, because my kids are so old now....I only do baskets for the two youngest. I give them 16 years old as the cut-off. They don't like that idea (well, some of them!) but I say it has to end somewhere doesn't it? I mean, I don't totally stop giving them something for Easter, but let me explain.
The older kids (16 & older, AND the girlfriends of my two older sons) get a pkg. (one) of their favorite candy, and some money in a special Easter card made just for them.
My two girls (this year, my oldest daughter is 16), and my 11 year old will get the baskets. Small though...not BIG like when they were little. Plus, the Easter egg hunt ends after 10 years old, too. Only because it's not terribly fun anymore when they know exactly where all the eggs are & it's not eventful, ya know? Like when they're little & they're so cute looking for the eggs, and they take a LONG time finding them (not 2 minutes!) and they get excited when they find them. Adorable & memorable when they're little. Not so much when when you're only down to one 11 yr. old child (the 16 yr. old would be the one hiding them).
oh well, time passes, things change...and we've just had to adapt.

Hope I was helpful with some basket filler ideas (though not a craft challenge)....perhaps it could be though, eh? Any more ideas on home made Easter basket fillers?
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Thanks for the ideas cheapy
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Vicki