Flowers for Breakfast

I always say I won't do it and then some how I end up helping with some high school youth group fundraiser!  This year I decided to give my hubby a break and help plan the Easter Breakfast at church.  It ended up going so well and everybody worked really hard.

We have table decorations at church we could use, but I wanted to make something special for Easter.  Thankfully, I knew if I didn't get it done there was something to fall back on!  (Think fake flowers in tiny little coffee cups...)  I had a plan for balloons and gerber daisies.  Sadly, I didn't have my list together in time for my trip to town.  I got home Tuesday night and was bummed.  No special decorations until I came up with this!

Let's call them recycled flowers.  My lovely friend, H, let me borrow her cricut.  (Which my son thought was an actual "animal" and was wondering if H brought the cage and if we were keeping it outside!)  I used left over scrapbooking paper and jars I had for another event at church.  I wanted to do that fake "grass" stuff, but no more trips to town were planned.  So, I just shredded the scraps and some other paper I knew I wouldn't use and stuck it in the jars.  I thought they looked pretty good!  I was amazed that I could actually finish the whole project without a trip to the craft store.

I hope you had a wonderful Easter.  Join up with Sarahndipities and let's see what we can make this week...