3 Adorable Bunny Buys For Easter

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Every year we play host to a Easter Picnic in our local park. Every year I add a little more to the “theme” box and this year was no exception. Our Easter picnic takes place Easter Sunday so we have had the full enjoyment out of these new supplies. I didn’t want you to miss out on them so I am sharing them before the party.

Oriental trading gave me some store credit and I loved getting the most for my buck with these fantastic buys!

Giant chocolate bunny – $5.18 – He is either going to be the centerpiece or a photo prop. I think he is so cute that everyone will want a photo with him.

Easter Carrots. $6.98 a dozen. These were so cheap I couldn’t resist I am thinking a garland or a few throwing games for the adults depending on the wind conditions.

Hoppy Sacks – $14 a Dozen. I probably bought too many of these 24 to be exact without thinking that the 20+ kids could actually take turns and play in heat rounds. They seem very durable and are sure to last more than a few picnics which is fantastic.

I have some more great ideas too but you will need to wait to after Easter to see those.

Here are a few more of the great buys I bought.

Glitter Easter Tattoos $5 for 72.

Chocolate Bunny Poem Kit. $5.68 for 12.

last Year we used these stickers on mason jar’s for salads and rice salads to go.

There are a lot of stories out there these days about AI use in the crafting space for everything from answering technique questions to writing patterns.

And there’s a lot of content about how to spot AI patterns, or even just photos on the Internet that people are claiming to have made but are clearly AI generated.

As the models get better, though, it can be harder to tell. Gone (mostly) are the days of AI sewing patterns with models who have too many fingers, but one thing it’s still hard for AI to replicate is individual stitches.

You’ll see this in knitting, crochet and cross stitch, where a project might look good from a distance but if you zoom in you’ll see there aren’t individual stitches, or they don’t look the way real stitches would look.

That’s part of the rationale behind a change at r/CrossStitch, the largest cross stitch community on Reddit, which now requires people to show a close up of their finished projects (lots of people seem to be showing off the backs, too) to prove their projects aren’t AI.

Lord Libidan reported on this news and I agree with them that I’m not sure why people in an online forum would be sharing AI “finished objects” when it’s a venue where you can’t sell patterns. But I understand their desire to keep the forum free of AI images. I wish Etsy had such a requirement so that people selling patterns had to prove they’d actually stitched them (though there are plenty of patterns that just show a chart and not a finished item, AI or not.)

Lord Libidan probably has a different perspective because he’s seen people selling kits made from an AI version of a free cross stitch pattern of his. Which is another layer.

I have my own feelings about AI and crafting but I just think it’s really interesting both the things people will do with AI without saying it’s AI and the lengths other people will go to in order to prove something is or isn’t AI. Or even calling something AI just because it’s really detailed and looks good? What times we live in.

[Photo via Lord Libidan, closeup of an image made by Google Gemini’s Nano Banana]

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