Happy Easter

 

Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it.

Today I give you the Easter bunny.

 

My adorable bunny started out as a K-cup, which cannot be recycled where I live.  I feel Europe and Australia have far better recycling than we have here in the states.  We are so far behind when it comes to reducing waste here.

 It's so chilly here, the poor bunny is shivering.  Or that may be the person behind the camera!

Ah, better.

The bunny has large feet,

observant eyes,

and whiskers that appear to have been damaged by a fight.

This bunny has big ears that are able to listen for the sound of little children.

The little bunny's ears are keen to the idea of the great art in the background, too.

To make the bunny, I removed the filter and washed the white K-cup.  I then freehand cut the rabbit ears, nose, and feet from a sheet of recycled copier/printer paper. Using my gifted pink watercolor pencil, I colored the ears, feet, and nose.  I adhered the feet first, because I wanted them to hide the raised markings on the K-cup.  It was then time to adhere the ears and nose.  

 

I had a hard time finding a good adhesive that would adhere well to plastic.  I finally used glue dots.  Next, I used a black Sharpie to paint the eyes on the cup.  Finally, I added the whiskers and mouth using a black fine point pen.  When I was moving the bunny to the table, I must have smudged the whiskers and mouth.  I was disappointed because I had worked so hard to make it look like a bunny.  Had I realized it before I took these photos, I would have tried to remove the whiskers and mouth and I would have reworked them.  As it is, I just have to believe the bunny must have gotten in a fight with something or someone on the way to celebrating Easter.

 

This is Day 4 of 22 and I recycled another K-cup (see my St. Patrick's Day hat from yesterday's post) and white copier/printer paper from my recycle bin. Thank you so very much for sharing time with Bleubeard and me today.  We both greatly appreciate it.  Happy Easter everyone.