30+ Unique Easter Basket Stuffers from Small Businesses

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Easter is late this year, but it’s never too early to start shopping for Easter basket stuffers!  Today, I’m sharing a bunch of unique Easter basket stuffers for kids of all ages, and the best part is, when you purchase any of these items, you’ll be supporting someone’s small business. 

In recent months, I have started being more intentional about where I shop, and I’m also being more intentional about the companies that I promote here on the blog, so I have some really great stuff for you today rather than the same old things everyone always sees from Amazon and Target.  I am really, really excited about this post, y'all!

These yarn cross kits are perfect for the crafty kiddos, and they make a beautiful keepsake!  This shop has several other designs in addition to the cross.

 

This “Happy Easter, Bruh” money holder is hilarious and perfect for older kids who are hard to buy for.

 

And if the version above isn’t for you, these little personalized carrot money holders are darling.

 

We love to stuff the kids’ Easter baskets with things they can use for spring and summer, so these personalized sunglasses would make a great gift.  They come in lots of colors, and they can be personalized with any name or phrase.

 

Swimsuits always make a great Easter basket stuffer, and these darling monogrammed seersucker suits could not be any cuter.

This sweet little bracelet set can be personalized with your child’s name, and it’s something they can wear all year.

 

These bunny fidget toys come with a personalized tag and they are so fun.

 

And these bookmark sets are awesome – each set comes with a bookmark that your child can color, and the set also includes materials to create a bunny beaded tassel.

 

This “Treat all peeps with kindness” tee comes in tons of color, style, and sizing options, and it would be such a cute gift for kids of all ages.  We need more kindness in the world these days.

 

This Disney princess themed top has the princesses in bunny ears so it would be perfect to wear on a Disney spring break trip!  It comes in t-shirt options, too.

 

These cross bookmarks are beautiful, and they would make a great gift for any kid who loves to read.

 

These personalized notebooks are great for writers and doodlers.

 

And these plastic cups are absolutely darling and can be customized by color and name.

 

These Peeps bath bombs would be much appreciated by tweens and teens.

 

And these wooden eggs can be customized with your child’s name.  They can then color them and display them in their rooms. 

 

How sweet are these personalized bunny bubbles?!  We always put bubbles in our kids’ Easter baskets when they were little, and it was always a favorite.  I just love the personalized twist on these.

 

These Jesus tomb Play Doh gift sets are the perfect way to teach your kiddos about the true meaning of Easter and they are just so unique!

 

And if you’re looking for non-Easter themed items to put in the baskets, a personalized bookmark is always a great idea!

 

These personalized jewelry holders are another non-Easter themed item that would be great for any tween or teen.

 

And I absolutely love this set of Easter egg tokens… each token has a different activity on it that you can do together as a family and it’s such a creative way to decide how to spend time together.

 

Fuzzy socks are always a great gift… I know I love to receive them!

 

And these cross bracelets are absolutely gorgeous.

 

These personalized cereal bowls are absolutely precioussss.

 

And this tic tac toe board is so sweet!

 

This set contains everything your child needs to create a beautiful paper lantern including a battery operated candle to light it up.

 

And this slingshot set comes with soft, felt balls for a safe and fun way to play.

 

Personalized pencils are another item that would be great for anyone.

 

And this gorgeous mug is perfect for teens who drink hot tea or coffee.  This has been my favorite Bible verse for 15 years.  It can be customized with different colored handles or you can choose an all-white mug.

 

These Bibles are so cute – perfect for any tween – and they can be personalized.  I love the unique heart or cross loop closure.

 

And this large sticker is perfect for your child’s water bottle… a constant reminder for them to keep their hearts focused on God.  Gaaaahhhh I love this one so much!

And finally, if you’re into silly gifts, your child will get a kick out of this “bunny breath” and “bunny farts” lip balm.

Happy Monday, y’all! 

Five on Friday - Gorgeous Gold Frames, All the Colors of the Dark Book Review, and More

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Happy Friday, y’all!  For some reason this week has dragged on and on, so I’m relieved that it’s finally Friday!  I’m co-chairing the Mother/Son dance at our school tonight (even though Jacob is too old to attend) and then I hope to get some things done around the house this weekend. 

But first, some favorites!

O N E – New Frames for My Desk

I’ve had three very old, beaten-up frames on my desk for years that housed pictures of Brian and the kids, and I decided that it was time for an upgrade after Maui passed away because I didn’t have a picture of her on my desk (although she’s in several other pictures around my office).  I wanted to find frames that fit perfectly under my monitor, and I needed four of them so I could have a picture of me with each member of our family.  I found these frames on Amazon, and they. are. stunning.  The quality of these is incredible… one of my favorite Amazon finds ever!  They look exactly like the picture on Amazon’s website, but they are even more beautiful in person.

Each frame is 4x4 (although they do come in many other sizes), so they fit perfectly under my monitor, and each frame contains a mat for a sleek, uniform look.  I framed my favorite wedding picture of Brian and me, one of my favorite pictures of Jacob and me at the beach from when he was a baby, my very favorite picture of Olivia and me from her newborn session, and a recent picture of Maui and me that we took for Christmas cards.  I love having these front and center all day while I work… they have definitely been a favorite this week!

T W O – All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

I just finished this book earlier this week and I thought I’d share it because I loved it so much.  If you’re looking for something with substance, then this one is for you.  The book is very long, but don’t let that deter you – each chapter is only 1-2 pages (occasionally 3) – so there are many half-pages in there which cuts the overall length of the book down by a lot.  I appreciated the short chapters because it allowed me to pick it up and read 2-4 chapters even when I only had five minutes to spare.  That said, sometimes when I had longer amounts of time to read, the shorter chapters kind of drove me nuts since the short chapters allowed the author to skip around a lot in the storyline.  Overall, though, the plot was riveting, the storyline itself was so beautiful, and contrary to what some people have said in their reviews, I was very pleased with the ending.  It has a little bit of everything – love, mystery, thrill, beauty, and tragedy – and I highly recommend it… 5/5 stars!

From Amazon,

1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the smalltown of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing.

When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake.

Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.

A missing person mystery, a serial killer thriller, a love story, a unique twist on each, Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession and the blinding light of hope.

 

T H R E E – Sharon Says So on Instagram

With all of the craziness going on in our country the last couple of months, I have been very intentional about how much news I am consuming and which sources I obtain my news.  I started following Sharon Says So on Instagram back in 2020 during the pandemic / election, and she has been my go-to for headlines, deep dives, and explanations for the things I don’t fully understand ever since.  She is one of the very few whose Instagram activity I consume daily, and she has been such a blessing, especially these last couple of months. 

She believes in reporting facts, speaking the truth (and not her truth, but the actual truth), and preserving the principles on which our nation was founded.  She is kind, smart as a whip, witty, verrrry knowledgeable about our government and how everything works, and she has the biggest heart on the internet.  She has raised hundreds of thousands (maybe millions?) of dollars via her social media accounts these last few years since I started following her… she is a true gem.

I have mentioned her several times on my blog, and I share her posts in my Instagram stories often, so many of you may be familiar with her simply because I love her so much.  But here I am, sharing some of her work again, because she is a favorite of mine every day.  It’s refreshing that there are still people on the internet who are honest, have integrity, and have good values.  She is someone who I would entrust our country with entirely, but unfortunately, she has stated multiple times that she has no desire to run for president.  Haha.  Can you blame her?  So, I’ll just continue to follow her on Instagram and be grateful for all the good she does there.   

She shared this post the other day, and it is such a great reminder for everyone.  We should all be doing everything we possibly can to protect democracy, and we should always, always choose principle over party. 

 

F O U R – Olivia’s Painting for Her Friend

One of my favorite things from this week was this drawing.  One of Olivia’s best friends had to have her beloved cat of 15 years put to sleep on Monday.  Olivia hangs out/sleeps over at her house often, and she loved Rolex like her own.  She was so sad for her friend that she decided to paint this picture of Rolex, and she gave it to her the day after they had to put him to sleep.  She painted this from memory and it absolutely looks exactly like their cat.  It is shocking how accurate her painting is.  So this is a favorite for many reasons – watching my girl use the creative gift that God gave her, watching her have empathy for others, and watching her show kindness to someone who is going through something difficult.    

F I V E – Maui’s Instagram Post

And finally, Sunday will be four weeks since we lost our beloved Maui, and I am still in shock because four weeks later, I am still getting notifications constantly on this post.  I don’t put much effort into Instagram as 99% of my effort goes into this little blog, so my Instagram posts don’t get much engagement.  Most of my Reels have thousands of views, but static posts?  They hardly ever get any engagement, and within 24-48 hours they get buried in the Instagram algorithm never to be seen by anyone again. 

Except for this one.  For some reason, this static post has been my most-viewed (17,061 and counting), most-liked (3,775 and counting), and most-commented on (1,073 and counting) post of all-time by a long shot (including my Reels), and the funny part is that I didn’t even do anything special to boost it or use any hashtags other than Maui’s personal hashtag that I created for her years ago.  The craziest part is that I am still getting notifications four weeks later. 

It just tickles me that Instagram loves our girl so much, and reading and responding to all of the kind comments has been a favorite for these last four weeks.  <3 

I miss her so dang much.

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 Top Ten... Songs of 2024

Happy Friday, y’all! 

*Linking up with A Little Bit of Everything for Friday Favorites.

Top Ten… Songs of 2024

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Remember when I said I was going to start doing a series of various Top Ten posts and then I did three and never did another one?  Yep, me too.  Haha.  I intended to do this post in January when I was doing all of my 2024 wrap-up posts, but I never got around to it… mostly because it was too hard for me to narrow the post to just ten songs.  I have had several requests from readers to do more music posts, so I’m glad I finally got around to doing it, though… this one is for y’all!

Hi, my name is Lindsay, and music is the most important thing in my life besides the obvious things like God, family, and necessities.  I have loved it since I was tiny.  I listen to it all day while I work, I listen to it in the car, I listen to it when I work out, I listen to it when I cook.  NOTHING makes me happier than music… especially live music.  It makes me feel alive and it allows me to get lost in the present moment like nothing else (which rarely happens for this Type A, planning, scheduling, not-spontaneous girl who always has a million things going on in her brain).  I also LOVEEEE introducing music to fellow music fans and connecting with others that way.  I honestly think that they need to add a sixth love language because music would most definitely be mine.

I love pretty much every genre, and my music collection is incredibly eclectic, so it was verrrry hard for me to narrow down this list.  Keep in mind that some of these songs have not yet been released as singles by the artists… they just happened to be my favorites on the albums that were released last year.  Also, I made sure to only pick one song per artist.  Otherwise, my Top Ten could have easily been just two or three artists.  Lol.  And finally, I listen to some obscure stuff, which means that several of these are not mainstream, so if you’ve never heard some of them, I encourage you to check them out if you want to find some excellent new music and artists.

Working backwards from #10, here we go!

10.  Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter – Yes, yes, I know that this one was very mainstream, and everyone is probably sick of it by now, but it was definitely one of my favorites from 2024… I have to say, I’ve heard it hundreds of times and I’m still not sick of it.  Now that is really saying something!  I also have to say that I was really torn between this one and Bed Chem... I loved that one before she ever released it as a single!

 

9.  Pretty Bird by Dave Matthews – I have loved this man since I was just 12 years old, and I have seen him solo / with the band in concert 28 times and counting.  Dave released this solo cover (originally done by Hazel Dickens) in 2024, and it is such a gem.  The lyrics make me cry every time I hear it.

 

8.  Good News by Shaboozey – I absolutely LOVED A Bar Song by Shaboozey, but his song Good News is, by far, his best song yet.  It was released as a single, but didn’t get much radio play (at least not that I heard), and for the life of me, I don’t understand why.  He performed part of it live at The Grammys and it’s just so good, y’all!

 

7.  Teddy Swims – Some Things I’ll Never Know – I am a HUGE Teddy Swims fan, and I have been listening to him since before he became massively popular, so I actually started listening to this album in 2023 when it came out.  However, the media is considering it a 2024 album because of his hit Lose Control, so I’m going to just go ahead and consider this a 2024 song as well.  This is the first track on his album I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy and it is one of my favorite songs he’s ever done.  This whole album is just fantastic.  We are going to see him in concert in August and I couldn’t be more excited… it’ll be a major bucket list check for sure!

 

6.  It Is What It Is by Judah and the Lion – Brian found Judah and the Lion randomly many years ago.  I thought their first album was okay, but nothing super impressive in my opinion.  Fast forward to 2024, and I fell in love with an artist named Abe Parker.  I found him on Instagram of all places, but it was love at first listen.  He went on tour last year with Judah & the Lion as he was their opening act, so I told Brian I wanted to see him live.  We ended up staying for Judah & the Lion after Abe Parker’s set (of course), and unbeknownst to us, Judah & the Lion had released a new album called The Process.  They played that album from start to finish that night and, y’all, I have never been to a live show where I knew zero songs and loved it so much.  I swear to y’all, I cried real tears at that concert because it was so good.  I downloaded the album the next day and proceeded to listen to it on repeat for months.  The album is about grief, and it goes through all of the stages – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, and it is just fantastic from start to finish.  It was hard to choose a favorite song from the album as there are several that were vying for a spot on this list in my mind, but It Is What It Is has to take the cake.  The last couple of years have been rough for me because of my vertigo issues and this whole album felt so healing to me, especially this song as it’s about accepting the things that you cannot control.  As someone who has major control issues, it felt like it was written just for me.

 

5.  What’s Left of Me by Grace VanderWaal – This is another obscure one… I heard it on The Elvis Duran Show because they were talking about how “the little girl who won America’s Got Talent in 2016 was all grown up and had a new single.”  They played it and it was so good that I downloaded it right then and there.  I don’t think it was played on mainstream radio, but it should have been.  I listened to it on repeat for weeks. 

 

4.  I Love You, I’m Sorry by Gracie Abrams – Frankly, I could put this entire album on this list because it’s so, so good.  I started listening to Gracie Abrams right as she was on the precipice of becoming mainstream (I *think* I found her because I’d read that she was opening for Taylor on the Eras Tour but I'm not 100% sure if I'm remembering correctly), and I loved this entire album from the start.  I Love You, I’m Sorry is my favorite song on the album with Us. coming in a close second.  And it ended up being the first song that Olivia learned from start to finish on the guitar, so that makes it even more special.

 

3. It Is What It Is by Abe Parker – Is it not so weird that two of my favorite songs of 2024 both have the same title?!  What are the odds?!  Anyway, Abe Parker is the artist I told all of you about earlier when I was discussing the song by Judah & the Lion.  I found him through a friend on Instagram last year right as he was releasing this song, and I loved it so much that I went and downloaded all of his music from his entire career (which is quite a bit)!  Again, I found this song when I was suffering terribly from vertigo and couldn’t get answers from any doctor, so it just really spoke to me and made me feel less alone.  I ended up going to see him live and I got to meet him afterward.  He was kind and humble and gracious, and when I told him about how his music helped me feel less alone on my vertigo journey, he told me that his sister had suffered from something similar.  Days later, his sister ended up reaching out to me and telling me her story, and all of the resources she provided for me have been so helpful.  If all of this doesn’t have God written all over it then I don’t know what does!  Music is literally healing.

 

2.  Hard Fought Hallelujah by Brandon Lake – This song right here will forever be in my top favorite songs of all time.  It’s all about finding joy in God during the midst of even the hardest struggles in life.  It’s raw, powerful, and so very beautiful and I have listened to it a hundred times since it was released, and I still can’t get enough.  I don’t honestly know what else to say about it because my words could never say what the lyrics in this song say, so all I can do is tell you to give it a listen if you haven’t ever heard it.

 

1.  LOML by Taylor Swift – And the top spot goes to... MY GIRL, TAY!  She released The Tortured Poets Department in 2024, and it is 31 songs of pure brilliance.  Prior to this, I didn’t think she would ever be able to create anything more beautiful than her album, Folklore, (I declared it her magnum opus right after it was released), but friends, TTPD comes in a very close second.  And LOML is a MASTERPIECE from start to finish.  The simplicity of the piano, the way she sings it so quietly, and the lyrics… ohhhh, the lyrics.  This song will absolutely break your heart in two.  I love Taylor Swift, and she has hundreds of songs, but this one?  This one will live in my top three forever.

 

And just for fun, a few honorable mentions…

MILLION DOLLAR BABY by Tommy Richman – It was so hard not to include this one in my top ten, y’all, because WHAT A BANGER.

Stick Season by Noah Kahan

Boo’d Up by Ella Mai

Beautiful Things by Benson Boone

Stargazing by Myles Smith

Belong Together by Mark Ambor

A Lot More Free by Max McNown

All My Love by Coldplay

Lil’ Boo Thang by Paul Russell (technically I think this one was 2023, too)

To wrap up, I came across the song Gravity by Sarah Bareilles last year.  It played in the background while someone was performing on America's Got Talent and I thought it was new.  I Googled the lyrics to see what the song was called and I downloaded it the next day.  I think I listened to this one a hundred times, too, but I didn’t include it in my top ten because as I was looking it up, I found out that it was released in 2007.  Haha.  I don’t know how I went 18 years without hearing this beautiful song, though… if it had been from 2024 it would have taken a spot in my top ten for sure!  The lyrics are beautiful.

This was fun!!  What were some of your favorite songs from 2024?

And if you want to see any of my other Top Ten posts I'll link them below!

Top Ten... Favorite Scents

Top Ten... Favorite Shows

Top Ten... Things I Love About Fall

Happy Wednesday, y’all!