We don't have too many opportunities to really get dressed up  in our small town lives, so we do it up big for Easter... or at least Rowan does (I am usually so exhausted and bleary eyed by Easter Sunday I am lucky to put my clothes on right way 'round).

In your easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it,
You'll be the grandest lady in the easter parade.
I'll be all in clover and when they look you over,
I'll be the proudest fellow in the easter parade.
On the avenue, fifth avenue, the photographers will snap us,
And you'll find that you're in the rotogravure.
Oh, I could write a sonnet about your easter bonnet,
And of the girl I'm taking to the easter parade.

This year, I spotted the pattern for the 'Darla Jumper' from Kati Cupcake and I was smitten.  Combine that with a passionate spring fling I am having with kate Spain's 'Central Park' line and I couldn't wait for spring!
I was not overly happy with the pattern itself and found it had a number of shortcomings in both the writing (lack of photos, unclear directions) and in the finished dress. While I would make significant changes were I to use it again, we did enjoy getting Rowan all dressed up for Easter Sunday services!
  A shrug and a very hastily made satin flower brooch on Easter morning finished it off.... (just what a crafty mom needs between services and an unfinshed sermon, a sewing project!) (note the hint of her  stitches on her chin ~ chin met pool changeroom floor.... floor won)...


Rowan was so taken up with getting dressed up that she even let me do something pretty with her hair (usually ponytails are as much as she will allow) although she 'hated' it when it was done!  I loved it ♥.
 What's in your spring project basket? What projects are you excited about right now?