This week, the crafty bloggers share inspiration and information to help you make Easter eggs, Easter baskets, and Easter cake, plus other crafts not Easter related:

• Stefanie Girard's Sweater Surgery - A fun and easy crochet Easter Egg pattern.

• Mixed Media Artist - Cyndi has a copy of the wonderful new book "Steel Wire Jewelry" that she is just dying to give away!

• Eileen - The Artful Crafter - Make these darling lamb place card holders for Easter or any special spring dinner. So cute!

• Crafty Princess Diaries - Tammy has 4 good reasons why her crafting and blogging and life in general have been interrupted lately.

• Craftside-A behind-the-scenes peek at a crafty world - This week at Craftside there is a free crochet pattern for Easter Bunny ears for your Amineko (or little plushie), a link to a super cute felted egg tutorial, a 1,000 Paper Graphics Call for Entries, how to use words to create an image and a fun knit glasses photo.

• Carmi's Art/Life World - Carmi re-vamps a plain leather briefcase.

• Aileen's Musings - Aileen shows you how to make an easy Easter basket cake that's cute as can be!

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While I wouldn't usually write a review of a quilting book (I usually leave those for our wonderful quilting Guide), but the projects in this book are great for beginners. This book will help you get started on your quilting adventure or just trying to expand on the skills you have. If you want to try your hand at quilting, log cabin blocks are a great way to start and this book is a great resource...read more

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Discover how you can make your own creative Easter baskets. Browse through this collection of Easter basket crafts and make an Easter basket or two! Design your own Easter basket and then submit it to be included in this collection. You can find out when you Easter crafts are added and stay up-to-date on Family Crafts by signing up for Sherri's weekly Family Crafts newsletter.

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While we are lucky enough to not have much snow left on the ground, everything here is very brown and blah. I can hardly wait for the flowers to start blooming, but that might still take a few more weeks. After all, it is not unheard of for us to get several inches of snow in April.

I think, to help cure my longing for colorful flowers, I will make some flower-related crafts to decorate my house until I can get outside and plant the real thing. If you feel the same way, why not explore this collection of free flower craft patterns and projects. Find out how you can make a variety of flower using different supplies and techniques. Which one is your favorite?
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