Eastering up

Usually the early bird gets the worm. Sometimes, though, procastination pays.

When the holiday decorations hit the shelves in local stores, I usually don’t have my act quite together enough to buy anything right away. Easter shopping on February 15? Please.

So by the time I start thinking about my daughters’ Easter baskets, it’s … um … today.

Lucky me, I’ve been spotting some great deals around town, not the least of which are these charming decoupage eggs at World Market (top right corner of the ad at that link). They’re 25 percent off right now, so get ‘em before someone else does.

I swung through Williams-Sonoma this morning, too, and oogled over their bunny dinnerware . So cute. Unfortunately, I didn’t see last year’s 3-D bunny cake pan—something I snatched up a couple days before Easter 2008—in the store or on their Web site, but (like most things) you can find it on eBay . The photo above is the cake I made with it last year.

Not on sale but worth checking out are the homemade Peeps available at Madeleine ‘s, at 707 W. Main Ave. in downtown Spokane. Madeleine’s also is taking orders for gigantic bunny sugar cookies. You can even have someone’s name frosted on top.

Anyone else spot some neat products or deals around town? Leave a comment here with your tip.

Hop to it (I couldn’t resist). Easter’s only a few days away.