The Works - Easter Decorated Crates

My apologies, I know I ask this every year, but why do I always find Easter such a struggle to craft for? Perhaps it’s the colours or being seemingly limited to bunnies, chicks and eggs, but nothing I do ever seems to gel, despite poring over Pinterest from February onwards for inspiration. I guess I’m just not a spring person!

Even these decorated crates for Iris and Bertie are seem awfully lack lustre to me, but there again I know they will be loved and filled with all manner of treasure, Bertie’s, probably with teabags and Iris pens!

The wooden crates came from The Works last autumn …….

………. when they were reduced from £2 to £1 each for a couple of weeks, so I stocked up.  They still sell them, but they’ve now gone back up to their original price.

All the wooden embellishments, which have been collected over the years have mostly come from The Works, with the exception of the rabbits.

I suppose, all told, this idea was an excellent way of using up a few more of the Easter stragglers still left my seasonal take-away boxes.

The leaves were coloured using a green Sharpie pen, before everything was simply stuck on the sides of the crates using E-7000 glue. This was followed by adding a few clusters of three dots here and there with a black biro (to prevent any ink bleeding into the wood) to help fill in some of the empty space.

The bunnies came from Home Bargains and cost 99p each, as did the carrots which were 79p, I believe for a pack of 6 or 8(?).  The carrots, which have a hanging loop, are a bargain, especially when you see what they are charging for similar packs in other shops and online. I particularly like the paper “leafage” on them much better that the really plastic-y stems I have seen on other carrots elsewhere.  Needless to say I bought a couple of packs which I think I will scatter here and there and hang on my small, charity shop, illuminated table twig tree nearer the day.

I then put a few chocolate bits and pieces in the crates. Iris and Bertie like chocolate but in small doses, unlike their Nanny, who can never have too much! Bertie still has a stock of his Christmas chocolate in his bedroom, which he has, on occassion, carefully wrapped in a dried out wet wipe and a mountain of Sellotape, that boy loves a tape dispenser, to present to me when he feels the occassion is right!  What is he like?  You just got to love him!  Happy, happy days!