**RERUN**Easter Eggstravaganza** Crafting With Cats ~ Easy Catnip Easter Eggs ~ The Only Kind of Easter Eggs Mew'll Want

Welcome to

Supurr Greetings Pawesome Pals

Thanks for joining us for our first Easter Eggstravaganza Crafting with Cats rerun.

  Mew know we have so much fun making all this stuff, and we hope mew enjoy seeing it and/or making it too. 

If mew missed any of our previous CWC posts, here are the links:

Merlin's Wizard Hat

Smoochie's Supurr Hero's Cape

Magical Kitty Lantern

Supurr Luxe Pom Pom Hammock

Kitty Observatory ~ Cativity Centre

Halloween Catnip Toys

Valentines Heart Crinkle Mat

Puzzle Treat Box ~ Fish Fur Treats

Catnip Pumpkin Toys and The Spooky Haunted House Photo Set 

Valentine's Catnip Hearts & Kicker Toy

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**Purrlease Note**

All Crafting with Cats ideas and creations are of our own design and we share them for purrsonal/home use only.

  So purrlease do not copy fur commercial/resale purrposes.

Copyright ©BionicBasil®

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This time we're making some pawesome

The only kind of Easter Eggs mew'll want this Sunday! MOL 

What Mew Will Need:

Cotton Fabric, we used a selection of fat quarters in different prints

lining fabric [optional]

needle, thread ~ optional sewing machine

scissors

stuffing/wadding

a great big pile of catnip

Optional Bunny ~ Blossom was today's Craft Room Snoopervisor

Let's Get Started

1.  We're making six eggs, and here are our fabric choices fur 4 of our eggs.

2. And here's our fabric choice for the last two.

3. Cut out your egg shapes - ours are approx 7" tall by 5" at the widest part prior to sewing.

4.  Check with an optional bunny to make sure they meet FULL BUNNY approval.

5. Cut out the lining fabric and place either side of your patterned fabric.

6. Pin eggs together ready for sewing [right sides together].

7. Sew, either by hand or machine, leaving a gap for the stuffing at the bottom.

8. Your egg/s should now look something like this.

9. Turn the fabric right sides out and get FULL BUNNY approval before continuing.

10. This is one side of our eggs.

11. This is the other side.

12. Now stuff with primo catnip - we used our homegrown, organic primo nip in our eggs.  And used a ratio of 1/4 stuffing/wadding to 3/4 catnip to fill them - that way the eggs are springy but are really stuffed to the brim with the primo stuff making sure they're extra fragrant and delicious, as nopurrdy wants a BAD EGG! MOL

13. Once your eggs are fully stuffed, hand sew the fabric opening together.

14. Now mew should have something that looks like this, with FULL BUNNY approval.

Now we're at the critical stage of testing, so what did Smooch think?

As mew can see there was no stopping him, the eggs were amazing and Smooch said, "Dudes these Easter Eggs are eggstraspecially nip'a'licious!" MOL

In fact, the P.A. had to remove him from the room as he went a little wild and refused to share with anypawdy else, I think that's because the P.A. used a special combo of Catnip and Catmint that we affectionately refer to as Psychedelic Puma Blend - OOPS - so maybe not for newbies like young Melvyn! 

So there mew have it, straight from Smooch; catnip eggs are the best, make some, get some, try some this Easter and don't miss out on the fun! MOL 

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And that pawesome furiends furry sadly brings us to the end of today's Crafting with Cats rerun, we do hope mew liked it, and we look forward to sharing more crafting exploits from BBHQ in the future!

We'll be back with more fun Easter crafts on Tuesday and do hope mew can join us then. In the meantime, we're back tomorrow with our usual Sunday Selfies post.

Epic crafty purrs

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team 

Basil & The B Team @BionicBasil® on Instacat, Twitter and Facebook

Disclaimer:

We at BionicBasil HQ are not responsible or liable fur any injuries to person/s and/or cat/s, crafting addictions, glue on cats, paper cuts, misplaced pins and needles, cats stealing your supplies, broken scissors, cat fur stuck on your projects, or your project not turning out as planned.  By using this information you hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless BionicBasil and staff from and against any and all claims for personal injuries or damages of any kind arising from use of any Crafting With Cats posts we may share.

Graphics created and used under paid licence www.canva.com

Crafting With Cats ~ Part XXIII ~ Easter Eggstravaganza **POSSIBLY THE BEST EASTER HAT EVER** ~ How We Made The Epic Easter Top Hat ~ Human and Cat Versions

Welcome to

Supurr Greetings Pawesome Pals

Happy Caturday, and thanks so much for joining us today for Part XXIII of our Crafting with Cats segment. We have so much fun making and creating stuff, and we hope mew enjoy seeing it and/or making it too! 

If mew missed any of our previous CWC posts, stop by the Crafting with Cats Page and see all our previous projects, and mew don't have to be an expert in anything to make any of them. Plus, we offer workarounds and no-sew projects for those who don't like to sew.

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**A quick note before we begin**

All Crafting with Cats ideas and creations are of our own design, and we share them fur purrsonal/home use only.

  So purrlease do not copy fur commercial/resale purrposes.

Copyright ©BionicBasil®

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This time we're showing mew

 How We Made The Epic Easter Top Hat

A couple of weeks ago, Nanny asked the P.A. if she could make a totally bonkers Easter hat for her W.I. Group, and so the P.A. got her thinking cap on and designed this! 

And then she made a smaller version for us, which is furry kindly modelled by both Parsley and Melvyn; see further down the post. 

Luckily there were plenty of supplies in the craft room, so we didn't have to buy anything at all to make this.

What We Used:

Cardboard

Tissue paper in various colours

Glitter in various colours

Paint or spray paint

Non-toxic PVA Glue + paintbrush

 Hot glue gun

Scotch tape

Scissors

Ribbon in various colours

Easter chicks

Polystyrene eggs

Cocktail sticks + polystyrene sphere and dish

Let's Get Started

1. Get some cardboard; we used an amazon box and a couple of the thinner cardboard  A4 pockets. Measure your head circumference and draw the brim to fit, so basically two circles with the inner one matching your head circumference.

2. Cut out.

3. Take the thinner cardboard and measure enough to make the tube just a fraction larger than your inner circle.

4. Stick together with glue or tape. 

5. Cut tabs approx 1 cm or 1/2" deep all the way around both edges of the tube.

6.  Fold the bottom tabbed edge outwards.

7. Fold the top tabbed edge inwards.

8. Glue tube to brim furst.

9. Cut a cardboard circle to fit the top of the tube and glue it in place.

10. Paint. We used silver spray paint.

11. & 12.  Get your glitter and polystyrene eggs.

13. To make them easier to decorate, we got a large polystyrene sphere in a small bowl and used cocktail sticks in the eggs. 

14. & 15. & 16.  Get your PVA glue and brush and decorate the eggs with glitter. We did one colour at a time and waited for it to dry before adding the next colour. So it is quite time-consuming. *Note do not use hot glue on polystyrene - it will melt.

17. These are our finished eggs; eat your heart out Faberge! MOL 

18. Take a sheet of tissue paper and fold it into a strip approx 4" inches or 10 cm wide and cut a petal shape along one edge. 

19. Join the strips together with a piece of tape to look like a large Xmas hat from a cracker.

20.  Scrunch up along the straight edge to make a flower shape and tape in place.

21. Repeat #20 until mew have lots of flower shapes.

22. Stack together and glue, we used hot glue for this, and mew should now have a lovely flower like this one. Repeat if mew want more flowers; we made 7 in total in different colours.

23. & 24. Decorate your hat. We used some grosgrain ribbon around the top portion of the hat in nice wide stripes. We then attached the flowers all around the brim and a smaller one on the top. Next, we glued the Easter chicks around the top flower, and finally we added the glitter eggs and nestled them between the flowers and voila, see the final finished Epic Top Hat below.

Isn't it fun and totally bonkers? 

The Mad Hatter would have been proud to wear this to a tea pawty! MOL

After Nanny's bonkers hat was completed, the P.A. followed the same system to make a cat-sized one, and here it is, modelled by Parsley and Melvyn.

What do mew think, who looks the best, Parsley or Melvyn?

We only have one complaint, the P.A. used all the Easter chicks on Nanny's hat and we would have liked one on ours! MOL

And that furiends furry sadly brings us to the end of our 23rd Crafting with Cats post; we do hope mew liked it, and if mew decide to make your furry own Epic Easter Top Hat, tag us on social media as we'd love to see.

And if there's anything mew'd like us to make, leave a comment, and we'll do our best.  

We'll be back tomorrow with our usual selfie selection, so stop by to see what we have in store fur mew this week!

Until then...

Epic Easter purrs

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team 

Disclaimer:

We at BionicBasil HQ are not responsible or liable fur any injuries to person/s and/or cat/s, crafting addictions, glue on cats, paper cuts, misplaced pins and needles, cats stealing your supplies, broken scissors, cat fur stuck on your projects, or your project not turning out as planned.  By using this information you hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless BionicBasil and staff from and against any and all claims for personal injuries or damages of any kind arising from use of any Crafting With Cats posts we may share.

Graphics created with paid licence www.canva.com and www.befunky.com

Crafting With Cats ~ Easter Special Re-Run ~ Easy Catnip Easter Eggs ~ The Only Kind of Easter Eggs Mew'll Want! #CalorieFree MOL

Welcome to

Supurr Greetings Pawesome Pals

Thanks fur joining us fur our Easter Crafting with Cats post. Mew know we have so much fun making all this stuff for feline fun and enrichment, and we hope mew enjoy seeing it and/or making it too! 

If mew missed any of our previous CWC posts, stop by the Crafting with Cats Page and see all our past projects, and mew don't have to be an expert in anything to make any of them.  Plus we offer workarounds and no-sew projects for those who don't like to sew.

*    *    *

**Purrlease Note**

All Crafting with Cats ideas and creations are of our own design and we share them fur purrsonal/home use only.

  So purrlease do not copy fur commercial/resale purrposes.

Copyright ©BionicBasil®

*     *     *

This time we're making some pawesome

The only kind of Easter Eggs mew'll want this Sunday!  #CalorieFree MOL

What Mew Will Need:

cotton fabric, we used a selection of fat quarters in different prints

lining fabric [optional]

needle, thread ~ optional sewing machine

scissors

stuffing/wadding

a great big pile of catnip

Optional Bunny ~ Blossom was today's Craft Room Snoopervisor

Let's Get Started

1. &  2. We're making six eggs - one each of course, and here's our fabric choices fur our eggs

3. Cut out your egg shapes - ours are approx 7" tall by 5" at the widest part prior to sewing

4.  Check with optional bunny to make sure they meet FULL BUNNY approval

5. Cut out lining fabric and place either side of your patterned fabric

6. Pin eggs together ready fur sewing [right sides together]

7. Sew, either by hand or machine, leaving a gap fur the stuffing at the bottom

8. Your egg/s should now look something like this

9. Turn fabric right sides out and get FULL BUNNY approval before continuing

10. This is one side of our eggs

11. This is the other side

12. Now stuff with catnip - we used our homegrown, organic primo nip in our eggs.  And used a ratio of 1/4 stuffing/wadding to 3/4 catnip to fill them - that way the eggs are springy but are really stuffed to the brim with the primo stuff making sure they're extra fragrant and delicious, as nopurrdy wants a BAD EGG! MOL

13. Once your eggs are fully stuffed, hand sew the final part of the seam together

14. Mew should have something that now looks like this, with FULL BUNNY approval if mew had a bunny on-site snoopervising

Now we're at the critical stage of testing, so what did Smooch think?

As mew can see there was no stopping him, the eggs were amazing and Smooch said, "Dudes these Easter Eggs are eggstraspecially nip'a'licious!" 

In fact, the P.A. had to remove him from the room as he went a little wild and refused to share with anypurrdy else, I think that's because the P.A. used a special combo of Catnip and Catmint that we affectionately refer to as the Psychedelic Puma Blend - OOPS - so maybe not fur newbies like young Melvyn! 

So there mew have it, straight from Smooch; catnip eggs are the best, make some, get some, try some this Easter and don't miss out on the fun!  

Happy Easter! 

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And that pawesome furiends furry sadly brings us to the end of our Easter Crafting with Cats re-run post, we do hope mew liked it, and we look forward to sharing more crafting exploits from BBHQ in the future!

And if there's anything mew'd like us to make, leave a comment and we'll do our best next time we're here.  

We'll be back on the morrow with our fab Easter Selfies and do hope mew can join us then.

Bestest crafty purrs

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team xox

And don't furget while we're all on lockdown, we The B Team have got your six and can entertain mew fur weeks; there are oodles of colouring pages to download and not furgetting the colouring books too.  There's a page full of crafting projects to keep your mittens making stuff, and if books are your thing, check out Amber's Book Reviews fur your next pawesome read! 

There are some epically exciting adventure stories too, so read our thrilling tales episode by epic episode.

The Extraordinary Adventures of Capt'n Basil & His Motley Crew 

Fast, Furry and Dangerous

The Clockwurk Labyrinth 

We've also added some new Brain Training posts, just to keep your little grey cells in tip-top condition. And we’ll be adding extra jigsaw puzzles to the puzzle page.

If mew want to see more of what's been happening at BBHQ since the lockdown began, check out our Instagram feed where mew can see our daily diary and exclusive videos that we don't put here on the blog.

Basil & The B Team @BionicBasil® on Instacat, Twitter and Facebook

Disclaimer:

We at BionicBasil HQ are not responsible or liable fur any injuries to person/s and/or cat/s, crafting addictions, glue on cats, paper cuts, misplaced pins and needles, cats stealing your supplies, broken scissors, cat fur stuck on your projects, or your project not turning out as planned.  By using this information you hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless BionicBasil and staff from and against any and all claims for personal injuries or damages of any kind arising from use of any Crafting With Cats posts we may share.

Graphics created with paid licence www.canva.com and www.pizap.com