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My son and I had a really fun time yesterday decorating eggs for Easter. He is at an age where he enjoys crafts and making things with mommy. I love it!

I bought a really cheap egg dyeing kit from the dollar store (yup, it only cost $1!) that turns dyed eggs into these decorated eggs on wheels. Hence called VehEGGles. What a clever little kit! I am definitely going to buy more of these if I can still find them for $1.

We also had some plain styrofoam eggs that I got from the craft store which my son just randomly placed stickers on top. This is also a cheap and easy way to have toddlers decorate eggs (my son loves peeling the stickers and placing them on the foam eggs).

We turned old tissue boxes into Easter baskets by just cutting the top off and adding a strap out of construction paper. One of the tissue boxes already had a bunny on it so I didn’t even bother covering it with construction paper. We stuffed some coloured straw into the baskets and added our decorated eggs in there. Ta-da! What a fun and easy way to craft with a 2 year old.

Anyhow, if you’d like to see the pictures click here to see the Flickr set.

Happy Easter everybody!

Make a hot drink sleeve that you can use over and over again! (Of course it’s better if you could actually use a reusable mug, but sometimes you just cannot carry a spare mug around in your purse.)
Here is my 10 step tutorial below…

How to Make a Reversible Drink Cozy

Step 1 - Find an exisiting hot drink sleeve to use as to make your pattern.

Step 2 - Open and disassemble the cardboard sleeve, so that it looks like the picture above.

Step 3 - Trim off any excess cardboard that you may not want as part of your pattern.

Step 4 - Lay out the “modified” pattern. This modified cardboard sleeve will be used as your template.

Step 5 - Place your choice of fabric for the drink sleeve and lay them right sides up together. Trace your template on the wrong side of one of your fabric pieces.

Step 6 - Place a piece of felt at the back of your fabric pieces as additional insulation. (This extra piece of felt will really help to insulate your drink and keep your fingers safe from burns.)

Pin everything together and sew on the line that you drew with your template in the previous step. Don’t sew all the way around though, leave one of the side edges open for flipping!

Step 7 - Trim off the excess fabric edges with pinking shears.

Step 8 - Flip the drink cozy inside out. You may have to use something sharp (like a crochet needle) to get the tight corners flipped out properly.

Fold and tuck in the unsewn edges. Pin them down, and then topstitch around the edges.

Step 9 - Sew some velcro along the edges of the drink cozy. I used some special velcro made for doll dresses which worked really well because it is not as bulky as the regular velcro. Make sure you align one strip on one side, and place the other strip on the other side or you won’t be able to seal your cozy together!

Step 10 - Assemble the drink cozy together and you’re done!

You can reverse the look by using the other side of the fabric as the exterior. How versatile!

Don’t forget to enjoy your hot beverage carefully.