Our Easter Tree

We make our Easter tree from twigs collected from the garden and put them in a vase with some daffodils. This year I made felt Easter egg decorations. I bought the felt, ribbon and embroidery thread from Hobby Craft and the retro fabric I have collected from charity shops and jumble sales over the years.

I mixed colours and fabrics…

The finished Easter tree…

Easter Treats

This year we made Gingerbread biscuits (Primrose Bakery Recipe) and iced them to give as Easter gifts. I put them in candy bags and made labels using mini luggage labels and vintage style fabric from Hobby Craft.

We also made chocolates by melting Green and Blacks milk chocolate and adding chopped nuts and raisins. I thought afterwards that mini marshmallows and pieces of fudge would also work well. After letting them set in the fridge I put them in jam jars…

Easter Decorations

Like Christmas, I love decorating the house with Easter decorations I have collected over the years, spring flowers and vintage floral bunting from dotcomgiftshop.com…

 

For my boys’ birthday parties I try to make them as traditional and simple as possible…with of course a hint of retro and a lot of fun!  The invitations hopefully also reflect this.  I usually stick to primary colours and this year the invites started life as a red and white striped paper bag…

I used my paper cutter to cut them into 8.5cmx6cm pieces.I then cut white card into 10cmx7cm rectangles.  I then stuck the striped pieces of paper onto the white card.I then cut blue card into 12.5cmx9cm rectangles and then used a corner punch to finish the corners with a curved edge.

Next it was time to use the ‘Party’ rubber stamp from lollipop designs (lollipopdesigns.co.uk) to complete the invitations…a production line!….

The finished invitation 🙂 

Getting ready for a family Mother’s day lunch…seasonal blooms, jam jar bulbs, vintage crockery and tea lights..

The place settings…

Jam jar bulbs…

Seasonal blooms in glass jars…

Vintage crockery