Monday, April 1, 2013

Easter

We had a very simple, low-key Easter this year, and it was just the right pace. I've been wanting to make Easter dresses for my girls for a long time now, and since they'll soon be growing out of the wearing-matching-dresses stage, I decided to finally take on that project. I also made Troy a matching tie, which he destroyed. I don't have any pictures of it, since he spent the day wringing it out, as you can see in every shot. We are not too hung up on aesthetics here; this is what we looked like after church.
 The dresses and tie are a kind of pale celery-colored satin that I stumbled upon. In all I spent under $10 total on both dresses and the tie! I used this pattern and spent many hours sewing and ironing and picking a few seams (but surprisingly few, considering it's me). I was so proud that I showed Travis my work when he came home. He studied the dress and finally asked, "So what is it supposed to look like? Scales?"
AAAARRRGGGHHHH!!!
Yes, I dressed my daughters as Easter lizards.
Or snakes.
Or mermaids.
Yes, mermaids at the very least.


Travis came home for the weekend, FINALLY, although he only stayed a day before heading to St. Louis.
(I'll write a separate post about where we went this weekend, later!)
We had to squeeze all our Easter-related festivities into one room. We had a big Easter dinner, dyed Easter eggs, and had a little Easter egg hunt.








2 sweet nothings:

Wendi said...

We dye eggs on the counter too! I thought their dresses were super impressive! So amazing and talented! Love the family pictures too! So glad you got some face time with Travis!

Lauren said...

The dresses are beautiful Krista!!! I wouldn't have thought mermaid myself. They look like little flowers! I am impressed.