Easy craft: Google eyed egg people

I'm bored! Seriously, the amount of snow we've had over the last 2 months has made me stir crazy and I can't wait for summer and gardening season to get here! So I've been working on my garden. Planning mostly, but I've started seeds for some of the smaller plants like herbs. Herbs are a great choice to start early because they do well in pots on the windowsill. Plus, herbs transplant into the garden easily once the soil warms up.

I've been saving eggshells and using them to start seeds. They are perfect for herbs and look so much cuter on the windowsill then those plastic nursery starter pots. The lavender started sprouting and the way it was growing almost made the eggshell look like...well, an egghead! 

First I started laughing at it. Then I started thinking. Guess what happened next? I discovered a cute and simple Easter craft!

When you don't have the "money"

First I feel like I should preface this by saying: what we are discussing here is paper money, dollar bills, cold hard cash. NOT the availability of money as in a bank card, or the chance to borrow money as a credit card. Cash!

One day back in the fall, I had some running around to do  which led me past a road side nursery stand that happened to still be open. What luck! Everyone else here in chilly Pennsylvania had closed down for the winter months. Maybe they will have the elusive Pear trees I'm looking for. I pulled in and got out of my truck. As I walked toward the door I noticed a sign "Fall closing sale....CASH ONLY" I froze. 

I usually have at least a few bucks but just that morning one of the kids had informed me (as she was running out the door for school and didn't have time to wait for me to write a check) that she didn't have any money left in her lunch account. So I handed her all the cash I had in my purse to put on her account and out the door she went. Unfortunately between then and now I didn't stop at the bank. I had to get back in my truck and go on my merry way without my pear tree.
 

I did some more running around and decided to stop at the Butler farmers market. Maybe they will have a pear tree? I know they take credit cards! Just my luck, they do not have a pear tree. They did have some yummy looking jelly pumpkins! Only $1.66 for a container full......oh yes, I have to have them! I keep looking and find a plant that had gone to seed for $ .50! Might as well try growing these next year....into the cart it went. Can you believe, I could not find another thing to buy? I couldn't buy anything perishable because I was going to the dentist and it would have to sit in the truck for over an hour. Of course I couldn't charge only $2.16, so back on the shelves they went and out the door I went.