Organization, Make It Monday & Easter Recap. Also, 1,001 Photos.

Sneak Peek!

There are so many things happening at Two Ten in the upcoming weeks - new site design, new items in the shop, all new baby goodies, and hopefully a new blog - that is, if I can figure out how to get this imported to my webpage blog feed. Either way, it'll get a facelift, and there will be regular feature postings (yay) every Monday, Tuesday and Friday. Monday's will bring Make It Mondays where I'll post a tutorial on a project I've done, or someone else's tutorial that I've used to make something adorable. Tuesday's posts will be Studio Tuesdays, where I'll post updates to whatever I'm making or working on in the studio, as well as posting new items. And finally, Fab Fridays will be a post dedicated to anything I think is fantastic, whether it be an item from an Etsy shop, fabric, project, blog, food - whatever!  Interspersed through the week, I'll be posting here and there about pretty much anything. Read more after the jump!


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First things first... get organized!
I typically find myself to be quite an organized person, but recently with trying to sell our current house, taking two classes to finish my teaching certification, creating new things & working on my webpage, making Easter things, and daily toddler issues, I've felt like I've been living in organized chaos for a few days. I enjoy that sometimes for some reason, but it's not conducive to daily productivity. I have cleaning checklists, homework checklists, toddler checklists, store checklists, checklists for checklists, and checklists for those checklists of checklists, but there were many too many checklists. The main things I needed to organize were my blog & store, the household, and the daily. This is the list of amazing printables that I've been using to get it together...

Blog/Store/Project Organizers:
The Project Girl - Project Organizer w/Master List
The Project Girl - Blog Brainstormer
The Flourishing Abode - Weekly Blog Planner


Home Organizers:
The Project Girl - Storage Organization
The Project Girl - Menu/Grocery List Organizer
The Project Girl - Moving/Packing Labels
The Project Girl - Chore Organizer

Daily Organizers:
Skip To My Lou/Vale Design/Fresh Picked Whimsy: LatteList - Activity Organizer
Creative Mamma: General Cleaning Lists & ToDo's 

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Now that I've successfully wrangled my chaos, I'd like to introduce you to my first Make It Monday!

  

You may remember the green ruffle one-shoulder dress I made for Lilly using Prudent Baby's One-Shoulder Dressy Dress tutorial, no? Using that tute, I made Lilly's Easter dress with this amazing floral print linen I found on sale. Yay for sales on 13$/yd fabric! It turned out incredibly adorable, and I swear everyone should try making this. It only took about an hour and change, and it's great because it can grow with your tot into a tunic and top when it's too short for a dress, not to mention you can make dressy ones, and casual ones, and even BATHING SUIT COVER UP ONES! Which will be happening, don't worry. This pattern/concept is incredibly easy to do, and I'm totally totally making a million more for this summer. Go check out Prudent Baby, they've got oodles of other tutorials and great things to try! Highly recommend! Here's another shot of the dress, while hunting for eggies.

On deck for next week: Lilly's Bubble Romper!
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Speaking of Easter... ours was awesome!  Lilly and I made cookies for Andrew, which actually turned out really deliciously - chocolate chip and about 59 cups of marshmallows, courtesy of Lilly's heavy hand. I wanted to use about a half cup, but there ended up being almost a half bag in there. Tis what I get for letting her dump them in, right?  The marshmallow ended up melting into a carmel-like crunch/goo and was fantastic. She loves baking and making glitter decorations.

She also loves dyeing eggs, which actually was a ton of fun, and she didn't like making a big mess.  Win for me!

Very thrilled with herself, and dad. 

We also baked sugar cookies with Aunt Shar & all 3 kids, using a bunny and carrot cookie cutter set I found at target.  They turned out delicious as always!

Since Andrew had to work on Easter, we opted to have the Easter Bunny come to our house ahead of schedule. Such nice baskets he left Lilly!

For breakfast, we had Bunny Pancakes, which I made using the same bunny cookie cutter on a pancake, with some strawberries in the ears and powdered sugar sprinkled on top. So cute! And tasty!

Then we hunted for eggs the Easter Bunny hid.

Sunday we had Easter mass at church, followed by the annual Easter Egg hunt in the church yard. So. Much. Fun. The kids all had a great time scooping eggs filled with candies and sugar and things I should not eat, and then enjoyed a little cake and juice afterwards. 

After all the hunting and eating, my mom, Lil & I had an awesome ham dinner complete with a boatload of roasted veggies, bunny biscuits, sweet potatoes, and well, ham. Too bad I got ZERO photos of the meal! I failed yesterday, but here is one of Lilly hanging out in the tulips! 

Thanks for reading!