Month: April 2015

Our Easter Decorations

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I cannot resist an opportunity to bring some extra sparkle to our home , so have been busy this week decorating the house ready for Easter.  Its a collection built up over the years complemented by this year’s school craft projects and Easter bonnets.  the main decorations are in the Living Room around the fireplace and the Kitchen on a window sill.  One of the essentials of my displays are bright, fresh flowers to bring colour, smell and vibrancy to the theme.

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The above are the Kitchen decorations, our driftwood tree provides the centrepiece for the window with gorgeous bright daffodils and mementos from previous Easters, the yellow crochet chicks are handmade by Grandma and whilst on Easter Sunday will be sitting on a chocolate egg, for display purposes and to avoid temptation they currently sit on empty plastic eggs!  Its not a great picture so its hard to see Little Miss’ Easter basket made at Rainbows and by the tree is a stone washed up on the beach on which I have painted a cross.  To me Easter is an important religious celebration and this should be reflected in our decorations,

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I do like my bunting, so there is more in the Living Room!  I am a little disappointed with my tulips this year,  the promise of the bright buds has not matured and at only a few day’s old I think they look like they’re withering.  However there is plenty of cuteness here with the decorations.  Finally here is Little Miss’ Easter card this year which I love!

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A Morning in the Kitchen

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This morning I have been busy in the kitchen preparing for Easter Sunday tomorrow.  I love to potter in my kitchen and in here I feel my most relaxed, creative and happy.  Apart from the functional use of the room, the kitchen is so important as Its where we eat as a family and share our day’s news.  We use the table here for all our craft projects, playing board games and doing homework.  Its where I sit in the mornings when the sun streams through the window and I read the paper or work on my computer.  Its the room where I do my sewing and listen to the radio, or in the mornings entertain the children with my Mummy dancing as I make breakfast.  It is my favourite room, the heart of our home.

Today I have been in the kitchen baking for tomorrow.  I love baking and a morning in the kitchen is my idea of bliss.  The recipes this morning were little chick cake pops and a few cup cakes topped with Easter decorations I made using a new mould.  The mould was a recent purchase from Lakeland, one of my favourite shops full of inspirational ideas for the kitchen.   This is the second time trying cake pops and I still quite haven’t mastered the art of the smooth chocolate around the cake, however I adapted my original idea and used a pastry brush to give a rougher texture to make them look fluffy!  If I try these again I might look for an alternative to icing pens for the facial features, possibly small sweets etc. The moulds were excellent and if I make a Simnel cake next year may use these for some simple Easter marzipan decorations or make some fruit crème sweets for neighbours.  Chocolate would work but there is so much chocolate everywhere its nice for a different sweet treat.

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