May: Candy for the Eye

Cause I am so tired of coming here and seeing that Easter Post.

Easter Inspiration

Our Easter looks like it's going to turn out to be really low key. Which although, we are looking forward to, we would have loved to have spent it with our family. It will be the first holiday in literally years that it's going to be, just the three of us. Of course we plan to pop in and drop off a basket of flowers to Granniebelle's so she can see Annabelle twirl in her pretty Easter dress. But other than a picnic, and a little egg hunt and maybe some kite flying if the weather allows, we have nothing extraordinary planned. So I am going to dream up an enormous Easter dinner or brunch or both, and put up all my inspirational pictures and get it out of my system.

Hoping to die eggs tomorrow. It will be, if you can believe this, my very first time, ever. I am super excited. Like little girl, kind of excited.

But if I was hosting Easter dinner you can be sure I'd be trying some of these delicious sounding recipes. How about Garlic Prime Rib, with dinner rolls, scalloped potatoes, asparagus, and maybe a fresh strawberry spinach salad. But then how would I ever decided between making this Carrot, or this Coconut Cloud Cake ? They both look and sound soooo good.


If I end up cooking at all I think I'll do something really simple like maybe this and this .

What are you cooking up for Easter Sunday? We'd love to hear all about it.

Splash of Spring Color.

I am craving a bright spot of orange. A refreshing hint of any and every pastel shade of green and blue. Wth a generous helping of happy sunshine yellow thrown in to make it truly spring.

{ Images borrowed from Better Homes and Gardens and the last three from Pottery Barn }

Springy Thingy

Hello everyone! It has taken MONTHS for me to be inspired....... I know that may sound silly, but it is the fact. Anyone share in that feeling ever??

Well, SPRING is finally creaping in on us. First we get AMAZING, shining, bright sunny days... then SNOW, though the snow generally melts away quickly.

In light of these spring days, I have been doing some "leg work" for my sister who is throwing a baby shower for our sister-in-law come next month. In doing this "leggy work" (thought that made it sound sillier- if that is possible) I have found some very cute and inspiring pictures and have now been inspired to CREATE!

I do hope to be back up and "inspired" more often. So hopefully I will be seeing some of you.

P.S. FAIRLIGHT, I am so jealous of your drive............ :) MUAHS dear ones!

March Month of Crafting week 1

Have you started your crafting for week 1 of our March challenge?
If so, leave us a link in the comments section!
We can't wait to see what wonderful, inspiring, creative
stuff you have all come up with this week!
You can see my crafts of the week by clicking here.
Happy Crafting!

A crafting website

One of my obsessed over crafting websites of the moment is MarthaStewart.com
I was over there a few weeks ago to look up a recipe and discovered a totally new and awesome feature. You can create your own account where you can collect, rate, e-mail, and comment on each and every recipe, decorating idea, article, and craft project. When you collect "ideas" you can tag it with your own tags and then add a personal (just seen by you) comment about it. For instance, I looked up Raspberry-Strawberry sauce and made a personal comment about this being the sauce I used on Olivia's birthday cake for her 2nd birthday and how delicious it is over any kind of cake, ice cream, pancakes, waffles, biscuits, etc. This feature is so easy, so simple, and yet so handy.

Another wonderful discover was the Crafts of the Day section. Each day they have a new craft posted with instructions on how to make it. You can browse all the way back to December 31. You can even sign up to have the Craft of the Day e-mailed directly to you. You can also collect these and add to your account.
I love this feature. It's a new inspiration every single day.



The other very cool Martha Stewart thing I'm digging at the moment is the new "Easter Workshop." You can sign up for the e-mails and they will send you an em twice a week until March 23 with detail Easter crafts for that week. If you click on the link it will take you to the Easter homepage with a countdown, all the crafts, a master shopping list, and an Easter dinner menu (which I personally plan to do.)

All of these things are perfect helpers to our Month of March Craftiness.
And don't forget to check out Martha's personal blog here.
There's also the Organizing Tip of the Day, Cookie of the Day,
and five great blogs that you can check out here.
With all this wealth of information, does anyone truly need another website? :)

National Craft Month

Please tell me that I was not the only person totally unaware
that March is National Craft Month?
I was so excited to learn this tidbit of info in the March issue
of Country Living magazine and it immediately got my wheels turning.

Shall we have a crafty month of March here on Domestic Bliss?
A crafting challenge perhaps?

I would like to set one for myself and for each of you,
one new completed craft for each week of March.
Who wants to join me?
Shouldn't be to hard,
even if you only do one scrapbook page
or make one card each week,
you'll have made the challenge.

Something for your Etsy store,
something for your daughter or son,
something for yourself,
a parent, or a friend
There are all sorts of things to choose from.

And then maybe we should post about our completed craft on our blogs
each week and link back to it here?
What do you all think?

Stay tuned for a couple of my favorite inspirational
crafting websites and blogs!