Easter Bags & Buckets

I love this time of year when the evenings are a little brighter, Spring flowers are displaying an array of colour and you can hear the birds singing in the morning.  It's also the time when every boy and girl is waiting with excitement the arrival of the Easter Bunny and what better way to collect all those lovely eggs than in a cute little bag, basket or bucket.

I made the bags from felt and ribbon, they are hand stitched (because I couldn't get my sewing machine out of the cupboard without removing a tonne of other stuff first) and they are just the right size for collecting a few small eggs.  I always feel that boys are hard done by a times like this, everything seems to be targeted at girls and for that reason, I made the Easter buckets pictured below.