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20 Things to Make with Peeps

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For my family, it’s not Easter without lots of Peeps!

In addition to being delicious on their own, we love using Peeps to make cute Easter party food. In past years, I’ve made Peep fruit kabobs, chocolate dipped peeps, and Peeps cake. When looking for ideas to try this year, I found a roundup of “20 Things to Make with Peeps” from How Does She. I’m thinking I might have to try their Peeps Easter basket idea for my 11-year-old, since he’s getting to the age where it’s hard to find stuff he likes for Easter.

Did you know that peeps were originally made by hand? Taking a total time of 26 hours to complete the full process (cooling time). Now it takes less than 6 minutes. The Peeps company now make over 5 million each Easter Peeps a day in a variety of shapes and colours. They also seem to come out for every occasion and season making them no longer a yellow chick for Easter. Originally that had wings but the wings were removed to streamline to making process. 

Are you all excited about Easter Peeps now? Want to make your own DIY Peep crafts? We have a blog full of DIY Peep-themed Easter Crafts and tutorials and you can see them all here.  Easter Peep Crafts & Tutorials

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Cross Stitch the National Parks in Tiny Form

I love little cross stitch patterns, but it’s especially fun when a small cross stitch design has a lot of detail going on. That’s the case with this collection of national parks cross stitch patterns from Stitchin Madness. 

This isn’t really a pattern, it’s a full-on book with designs for all 63 of the national parks in the United States (which includes the Virgin Islands). Each design is unique and shows a distinctive feature or the park or what the landscape there looks like. 

The book includes a full table of contents and numbered pages to make it easy to find the design you want to make. 

Each design is 40 by 40 stitches without the park name included, and 40 by 50 stitches if you add the name. They’re designed for 14 count fabric and if you make all of them you’ll use 72 colors, though each individual pattern uses a lot fewer colors than that. 

These would be so fun to make as you visit different parks, or make the whole set to frame together if you’re a big travel person who loves the national parks. They’d also be fun as greeting cards or even ornaments for your tree with the year you visited added to it somewhere. 

The photo above shows a nice collection of some of the patterns in hoops, but I could see them done in little frames as well. This should give you a taste for what the designs look like and might even include your favorite park (mine is Acadia because I went there on my honeymoon; it isn’t on here but you can see it on the product page. 

If you’re ready to stitch the national parks, or even just a handful of them, check out this pattern book from Stitchin Madness on Etsy. I’d love to know which national park is your favorite or what you would stitch up first!

[Photo: Stitchin Madness]