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Have Your Own Easter Parade with Some Great New Jewelry
It’s almost time to celebrate our favoritest of all Spring holidays by making some new Bunny Jewelry. And we’ve got the funnest, most sparkliest Easter bunnies you’ve ever seen. (And yes, my grammar and spelling checker just had a violent conniption, exploded, and then uninstalled itself from our computer, which should make writing the rest of this article a whole lot easier.)
Easter has been with us for almost 2000 years and there have been a lot of changes over that time as to how it is celebrated, and one of our favorite traditions is the Easter Parade.
It All Started with a Roman Emperor…
It’s rumored that Roman Emperor Constantine the First, started the first Easter parade somewhere around 330 A.D. when he commanded his subjects to march around the city in their finest clothing to celebrate the resurrection of Christ. We have it on good authority that cool new Easter jewelry was featured heavily in this celebratory march.
1550 years later (that’s around the year 1880 for those of you, like me, who are mathematically challenged) New York City formalized what had become an Easter tradition when the biggest churches in town would decorate their massive cathedrals with fresh spring flowers for their Easter service. The more well-to-do attendee’s, inspired by all of this grandeur, would follow suit by dressing up in lavishly colorful, stylish, and beautiful new clothes (along with some great jewelry) to attend their respective church services.
After the meeting, these affluent parishioners would then stroll down the avenue (with their new clothes and jewelry) to check out the other ornately decorated churches as well as checking out the other ornately decorated couples also strutting their stuff (and their jewelry) on the avenue.
Meanwhile, the poor and middle class showed up (probably without a lot of jewelry) to witness all of this sartorial magnificence and to find out what would be fashionable for the coming year, fashion a good seamstress could make at home (a lot like our jewelry).
This became the annual Easter Parade, an American cultural event inspiring an Irving Berlin song, a Broadway revue, and a movie with Judy Garland and Fred Astaire (I guess that means singing AND dancing, along with a great display of some lavish jewelry), and still open to anyone who wants to show up and show off their fashion sense. It happens along 5th Avenue, in the City, each Easter.
And did we mention that along with all of the marvelous clothing there is also a lavish amount of jewelry on display? A LOT of jewelry.
But What Does All this Have to Do with Bunnies???
Well, who doesn’t love bunnies? Especially sparkly bunnies you can wear on Easter, and every other day of the year. If Emperor Constantine had known about the Pearl & Pave Bunny jewelry, he would have definitely had his minions passing out bunny earrings and pendants to all of his citizens. Judy Garland? If she had seen the Bunnies, she would have been wearing Bunnies throughout her movie. Fred Astaire? Maybe not so much. But, who knows? We are truly lucky to live in these modern times where we can make and wear adorable Bunny Jewelry.
Our Pave & Pearl Easter Bunny Jewelry kits feature the cutest bunnies you’ve ever seen. The crystal pearls are white and the crystal-encrusted pave beads are available in 8 different colors.
We have both earring kits and pendant with necklace chain kits available. Buy both kits, as a set, and we have a special 25% discount from now through Easter. You can get all of the details by going over to the Pave & Pearl Bunny product page of the HomeStrung store.
These bunnies make great gifts. They are inexpensive, fun, and easy to make. Each kit can be completed in just minutes (you can pretty much have the earring or pendant kit finished during one TV commercial break).
Become an Easter Trivia Hero
While you are making your new Bunny Jewelry, here is just a little Easter trivia you can use to astound and amaze your friends and family.
The Easter Bunny’s formal name is Egbert. He is married to Betty Bunny, his longtime sweetheart, and mother to his 20 children. She lets him get away from his household responsibilities once a year so he can deliver colorful Easter eggs to the children of the world.
Easter easily competes with Halloween each year as the two biggest holidays for candy sales. Americans are expected to spend over $18 billion dollars on Easter this year, and a lot of that goes to candy.
90 million chocolate bunnies will be produced, and eaten, during the holiday. Depending on the survey, somewhere between 75 and 90 percent of people eat their chocolate bunnies, ears first. Only 4 percent start with the tail.
Americans will buy more than 700 million Marshmallow Peeps this Easter season. In 1953, it took almost 27 hours to make a small batch of Peeps. Today the candy maker kicks out about 5 million of the Peeps each day, all year long, just to get ready for the holiday. Yellow is the most sold color, followed by pink, lavender, blue, and white.
Easter was named after the Anglo-Saxon goddess, Oestre, who was the goddess of spring and the renewal of life. She had a pet bird which she once changed into a bunny to entertain a group of children. Since this bunny was really a bird, it began to lay colorful eggs which Oestre then gave to the children.
Easter is a major religious holiday celebrated by Christians throughout the world. Easter Sunday has the highest church attendance of the year, followed by Christmas and Mother’s Day.