Gearing up for my daughter's first Easter, I'm looking to start a tradition that we can savor by creating lasting memories. Rather than embracing a dollar-store inspired Easter morning filled with fleeting sweets and plastic baskets destined for the trash, I keep coming back to the idea of making baskets together (ok, so not actually together this year) and using materials that would otherwise be thrown out. These inspirations from around the web offer festive guides to creating budget-friendly, earth-loving, and memory-rich Easter baskets with your families this year. More

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Spring holidays give us rituals for cleaning, decorating, hosting, and eating. The Jewish holiday of Passover begins the evening of March 25, and it involves all four tasks in abundance: dinner table decor for this holiday has been under scrutiny since, well, time immemorial. More

These days it seems like design trends reach their tipping point at warp speed and have much longer staying time for us to develop a love/hate relationship with them (check out the illuminating comments on this post to see where Apartment Therapy readers stand on trends). As much as you may want to resist them, if you have a recent trend itch that needs scratching then getting your fix with Easter eggs is a fun, tiny, non-committal way. More

St. Patrick's Day doesn't have to be all leprechauns and pots o' gold. Get in the spirit by setting a rustic table with some no-fuss brunch fare. Plus, it'll fill you up before all the imbibing at any parades you plan on attending.

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Look at this beautiful creation! It's called a Paskris, and it's a Swedish Easter tradition. With Spring still a few weeks off, they decorate branches with brightly colored feathers, and sometimes add eggs to bring the sunshine inside. More

Your cassette tape of Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill isn't quite the party animal it used to be back in '86, but your old tapes still deserve a better life than collecting dust in a box in the attic. Fight for your right to party all over again with these clever decorations and gift embellishments made from old VHS and cassette tapes. More

The online magazine Leaf released its Spring 2013 Issue yesterday. There are a number of fantastic garden and outdoor living stories in the issue, but one is particularly useful if you are gearing up for spring holiday decorations. More

We love having an Easter Egg hunt. It's a tradition my mom kept alive well into my college years. No matter what the weather - even with snow on the ground - my brother, myself, and our parents went outside with our baskets and color-coded eggs. I still remember the year my mom hung a colorful bra - it was Easter-like, apparently - from a tree branch just for me! More

Oh, I am impatient for spring! Since I live in San Francisco where one season blurs into the next, my main craving is for more sunlight. And spring vegetables, spring dresses, and lots and lots of bunnies..

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