Happy Easter

It’s a beautiful crisp sunny day here in southern New England.

It couldn’t be a better day.

Hope you are spending it with good friends and family.

HAPPY EASTER!!!!!

Happy Easter

I’d been thinking for weeks about what I would show and write for

an Easter post.

Still not sure???

but a few weeks ago I decided to

make our breakfast table look a little more Springy

           

Remember my cute sheep that I got from Susie ?

I had fun playing around with them on the table

The glass dome was one I bought at the fleamarket

a few weeks back for $5. It had a horrible dried

flower arrangement in it that had seen better days.

….and boy was it stuck on with a lot of glue.

They must not have had hot glue guns back then

…..that glue comes off much easier.

I still need to paint the base white but for now I can live with it.

These were our Valentine carnations that I dried.

Inspired by June.

The queen of dried flowers.

Have you ever seen her dried peonies????

I envy her garden and at times her dry climate.

My peonies would rot before they could ever dry that beautifully.

These salt and pepper shakes I bought in a thrift store yrs ago.

Just realized that they were in the shape of eggs : )

and perfect of Easter.

Well I’m running late as usual

it’s already 3 in the afternoon on Sunday

so going home and adding

fresh flowers to the table

for Easter dinner…..

but before that

going to do a little yard work.

HAPPY EASTER!!!!!!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

I hope yours was as wonderful as ours!

The weather couldn't have been any nicer.

We had stayed open til 2 in the afternoon but mostly to get our

usual routine done.

We had planned on having a picnic by the beach but then decided we'd go home,

whip up a few batches of bread and have a late lunch.

Much nicer then yesterday

when we never had any lunch due to being so busy.

I took my camera with me just in case.

This rock reminded us of a frog hut .....but for a gigantic frog.

I had never noticed it before. I wish we had raked this area out in the fall it...it's where we have a huge patch of myrtle that's just starting to bloom.

I don't dare disturb it now and knock all the flower buds off.

While George got started making lunch Nigella and I worked in the garden.

Pulling onion grass.... tons of it.

and catching this hairy bittercress ( cardamine hirsuta) before the seeds spread everywhere.

It's also known as the "Greenhouse weed".

Gosh.. no wonder I have it everywhere.

If you'd like, you can read more about it HERE and how to get rid of it.

One of my other kitties

Nigella getting some well deserved sunbathing in.

Poor girl she's been cooped up in the house all winter and now that we're working all

the time she never gets so enjoy the nice weather,

It was such a treat to be home in the middle of the afternoon in what felt like a

summer day.

Felt oddly unfamilar but wonderful.

I think Nigella enjoyed having us home.

I never wanted to come in even to have lunch.

I hope you all had a wonderful time on Easter and that the weather was as nice where

you are as it was in New England.

Happy Easter!!!

When you walk into Paula's home you immediately know your entering a special place....much like the feeling you get when your about to enter a secret garden full of magical and wonderous things. Easter time is no exception.
These are just a few of her collection of bunnies. These were made by Evi of Evi's Country Snippets which Laura talked about in a recent post after going to one of her shows. Aren't they just so sweet sitting next to each other in their Easter clothes...

....and this little bunny who's just woken up from a long sleep and still in his bed shirt.
The other corner of the Strawberry room as Paula has appropriately named it. When her Nieces would come over for a visit they always called it the Princess room. You can see why......

Easter vignette with an antique postcard of lily of the valley and eggs tucked into small glasses with angelvine.

This bunny was made by Nicol Sayre. She sits on an old weathered Irish pine sideboard in her living room.

.....This little guy sits in a wicker chair waiting for you at the top of the stair landing. He may have been made by Lori Baker but I'm not sure.

Wooden eggs lovely nestled in angelvine in a wire basket

Fabric bird on a nest atop a wooden cup also made by Evi. It's probably all of 4 inches tall with such beautiful details. Looks so perfect against her collection of brown transferware. The name of the collection escapes me now. Charlotte something? We had been out one day shopping when she spotted a small tea cup. She was so delighted to find it and add to her collection. When we got back to her house she places in on a small shelf with the others. It looked perfect there. It had found it's new home.

May you all find your happy home...

Happy Easter everyone.

Carole

Shop at Easter time

Thought it might be about time I showed you our shop. I only just recently finished setting up last Saturday morning. I couldn't believe how much glitter and mica flakes I had to clean up from Christmas but once it was all swept away it really looked like Spring and I'm really happy with how it turned out. Sweet little Easter Chicks on a box with vintage flowers made by Paulette Andrews

Not too many Easter bunnies like some years just a ton of eggs and nests

Garden angels

Little mini bird magnets~so sweet

Jeanne d' Arc Living Magazine 2nd edition

I think what attracted me to these flowers were their brown hand wrapped stems. The flowers themselves are made from plant reeds and pods

Love this little nest tucked into a display box

So happy to have found some crowns. I'll have to come up with something more interesting to do with them later, but for now putting it on a mercury glass compote seemed like a good spot.

This metal cone I've had forever. I get asked all the time to sell it but it fits so nicely on this spot next to a door. I'm starting to feel badly about refusing to sell it, but you know how it is when you just can't let go of something quite yet.