Easter Weekend with Peter Rabbit

Peter Rabbit greets visitors and poses for photographs (both days). Concert by the Richmond Concert Band on the lawn at Bloemendaal House (Sat.); Easter Brunch in the Tea House by reservation (Sunday).

EXTENDED: The Real Cute Easter Contest is HERE!

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EXTENDED: Register and book your FREE photo session before March 22nd! Spring time is here!! It’s time to shake off those February blues and put on your spring time shoes! We’re super excited about this contest because not only do you get a FREE hour long spring time session with Butler Photographic Artistry at their absolutely gorgeous […]

Real Cute Easter Contest is Coming!

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    Be on the lookout! We’re getting ready to launch the Real Cute Easter Contest. Richmondmom is paring up with the incredible photographer at Butler Photographic Artistry for some absolutely stunning easter portraits this year. Forget the Easter Bunny (he’s scary anyway) and get your picture taken with live animals at a stunning local […]

DIY Volunteering: Easter Egg Hunt

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Each month HandsOn has a DIY project you can do any time, any place (or you can even plan on doing it one day, but then really do it a couple days later).  Find out more about HandsOn Greater Richmond’s DIY Volunteering initiative here. We’ve partnered up with HandsOn and will post the DIY for […]

Craft Time

Preschoolers through age 10 are welcome to make an Easter basket at Hull Street Library.  

“What’s the deal with that Easter basket?”

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Since my style more closely aligns with modern furnishings and accessories, I do not particularly like baskets in general. However, there is something about Easter baskets that I love. I appreciate their bright colors, their shape and the way the traditional Easter basket handle arcs over the basket itself.  Easter Baskets also convey a rich, […]

Easter Egg Decorating Ideas

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Rather than the box of dye and shrink wrap decorations and stickers, try something different for your Easter eggs this year. Follow the links to get the tutorial on how to make these creative Easter eggs. Sharpie Dyed Easter Eggs // Housing a Forest What makes these more fun is using an eye dropper to […]

My Favorite Easter Egg Hunt

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As I have mentioned in a previous article (Happy Easter, It’s Gonna Cost You!), we don’t have that many more Easter Bunny visits left. This sad realization has me reminiscing about all of the Easters we have celebrated as a family over the years. I have decided that my favorite one was when my little […]

Happy Easter! It’s Gonna Cost You!

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So the Easter Bunny (in other words, me) suddenly realized that my tween won’t officially turn into a teen until after Easter. This raises an Easter basket dilemma.  You see, although he no longer believes in Santa, the Tooth Fairy, or the Easter Bunny, his nine-year old sister does. And so, we have still go […]

Helicopter Parents: Please Don’t Kill Easter Egg Hunts

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Yesterday, we attended a lovely community festival including the highly-anticipated Easter Egg hunt. My children, per usual, were armed with their plastic grocery store bags (I am gonna have to really dig in my storage bins to find their actual baskets.) The sun was shining, everyone was thrilled to be outside without a jacket, and […]