hop on over for easter

April 3, 2010 | festive decor, flowers, holidays | No Comments

Yesterday was a day of grocery shopping, crafts, baking, cleaning, and a little P90X but that’s a whole post in and of itself

we dyed hard boiled eggs the traditional way, but they dye just wasn’t right. the colors were too BRIGHT, and they just were not jiving with our “decor” style in the dining room for easter sunday! so………

we decided to take another route. we blew out way over a dozen eggs, martha stewart describes that process for you here. yes there is a little tool to do this with, but that little tool wasn’t to be found in our house. so we painstakingly removed the insides from the eggs [note: without actually touching our mouths to the eggs as BHG describes here which SCREAMS salmonella]. Once that process was complete and our brains were completely blown out, we painted the eggs.

one coat

after another

and they finally looked like this.

added to the grass table runner [from a cute store in downtown Homewood] under the “nest” of yellow alstroemeria

the lingering of our headache paid off

and we moved on to the next step…

baking our “easter stamped” cookies

and decorating the tree

Happy Easter!!

all things color

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March 24, 2010 | "things", fashion, festive decor, interiors, lovely things | 1 Comment

I find myself resorting to black, brown, tan, white, neutral….A LOT. So for the fun of it, I just thought I’d add a little rainbow inspired color to your day: