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The most apparent and significant sign that indicates the beginning of the celebration of a happy easter day is the Easter eggs. You probably wonder why eggs are closely associated with the Day. The answer turns out to be simple and the notion has its roots in the ancient view of the object itself. An egg is where a chicken comes from.

This symbolizes the cycle of life; an egg is viewed as the bearer of new life multibetzone.com and, to an extent, rebirth. The Christ was crucified and entombed, only to be resurrected and ascended to heaven. The parallelism is so blatant between the two that the eggs are made to represents Easter, the day the Christ resurrects.

Interesting Facts about Easter

In the beginning, the eggs were stained red, as practiced by first Christian settlers in Mesopotamia-who also originated the tradition of incorporating eggs in celebrating Easter Day. The red stain was meant to symbolize the blood the Christ shed due to the crucifixion.

Happy Easter Day and Here are Some Interesting Fact about the Celebration

Traditional Easter Decorations

The tradition of decorating eggs other than red stain seems to have been originated from Pagan customs to commemorate the arrival of springtime-the Easter Day is said to coincide with the new season so the Christian incorporated the custom of decorating eggs to commemorate Christ’s Resurrection.

The link between easter day and the Easter Eggs is even more apparent if you are to observe them on a more physical level. The eggshell symbolizes Jesus’ Tomb that has been sealed shut following His death on the cross. The eggshell is then cracked, an act that represents the unsealing of the Tomb of Christ and His resurrection.

Another association with happy easter day is the Easter Bunny, a character that is comparable to Santa Claus for Christmas. As is the case with the Easter Eggs, the presence of the Easter Bunny during the Easter Day is influenced by Paganism, although the Bunny is grounded more on the myth rather than practices.

The bunny was mistaken as a hermaphrodite animal yet it can produce offspring. This caused people of the olden days to associate a bunny with Mary Mother of God. The bunny is also said to have been the beloved animal of Ostara, Goddess of the Spring, further tying the Easter Day’s connection with the coming of a new season, new life, and rebirth. The bunny was at one point a beautiful bird, which was transformed into a bunny by the Goddess, which explains why the bunny can lay eggs.

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In the middle of our crazy bedroom switcharoo project, we stopped for a quick, green little snack in honor of St. Patrick’s Day.

The inspiration came from the plastic mesh bag that grapefruit and onions are sold in. After the kids inhaled four giant grapefruit, I was wondering if I could possibly make something out this sack before I tossed it. The result was a quick little basket perfect for taming that treasure at the end of the rainbow (or at least a rainbow of fruit flavors.)

Want to make one?

For this project you’ll need:

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As always though … rock what ya got.

Trace and cut out the outline of a small cup or jar on a scrap piece of paper …

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… then place paper against the bottom of the glass, wrap the mesh tightly around the sides and trim away the extra mesh. You should have just enough length at the bottom to fold into the middle to make the bottom of the basket.

Carefully add a ring of hot glue to the paper base and carefully fold the mesh into towards the center. Again … carefully.

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Trim the top edge to make it flat and run a small bead of glue down the back seam of the mesh to close the side seems. When glue has set, carefully remove basket from the mold.

My kids liked the look of a handle Easter basket style so I added a narrow strip of mesh with a dot of glue on each side to the smaller one. A quick coat of spray paint …

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…  and my pot of gold was done. Drying time was only an hour.

(And I’m already thinking ahead to Easter and picturing a table setting with these little baskets painted white and filled with small pastel Cadbury Robins Eggs. Yum!)

At the last minute I added a quick shamrock out of felt. No biggie.

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So there you go!

Some recycling magic and yummy treat that even St. Patrick would like.

Now that’s my kind of green.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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My quest to bring Spring to the freakishly red upstairs continues.

Today’s attempt:  Make An Easter Tree

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Or as I like to call it, “One last holiday display from my ready-to-retired stick tree that keeps hanging around.” (See it for other holidays here and here).

But as soon as I drug out those bright plastic eggs and saw just how violently they clashed with the walls, I immediately switched tactics:

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Plan B: I’ll just paint them.

Except as it turns out, I didn’t have spray paint in the colors I wanted … and craft paint isn’t on speaking terms with plastic …

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so I dug through the left-over birthday stuff and improvised.

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Paint + Podge + left over gift bag tissue =

Easter eggs that play nice with red

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And these were so easy to make:

Glue eggs together … paint a base coat to match tissue paper …

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… mog podge tissue paper to eggs … let dry and swoon.

A small loop of clear thread hot glued to the top finishes these little babies off.

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Of course then you could skip the loops altogether for display on a bookcase or coffee table.

Other than wanting a few more eggs to fill in the bare spots on my Easter tree …

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… I’m loving my red-friendly Easter tree with the beautiful damask print and bright teal pop.

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