All My Eggs in One Basket

Well maybe not all...

 

Happy Easter, Happy spring to everyone!

                   

Do you all decorate a lot for Easter and/or spring? Now that my kids are beyond the Easter Bunny age I don't decorate much for Easter most years.....

I love my collection of speckled eggs and old peeps, the fluffy Easter toys, not the candy marshmallow kind. I often find the old chickies inside the vintage papier mache eggs, relics of a long ago child's Easter basket, now treasured again, by me.

The eggs are a mixture of real, blown and dried eggs from the flea market, some hand painted robin's eggs from my mother,

...and plastic eggs from the craft store...[yes, plastic. I love the colors...]

But this year, since I have been finding the German papier mache eggs now and then, I decided I'd get out my collection and display them this year...

Recent flea market finds...

Often the best time to buy holiday collectibles is off-season, like don't try to find great Christmas stuff in December.

I found these two last fall...Turquoise! my fave!

And this cutie!

He came from one of my favorite etsy sellers: Joan at Anything Goes Here. Here is a link to her wonderful blog, telling about this adorable tiny red bunny egg and companion chickies eggs. They just had to come join my admittedly humongous collection here at the beach.
Here's the small egg from Joan with a similar large egg from a local antiques show (The big guy cost a fortune, geez...)...

So....Uh. Um..I opened the bin with the German eggs last week. OMG, I must own every old egg on the east coast!

These pix are just a fraction of the group.

I was a bit astounded. I think they reproduced in the bin! Each big egg held three or four smaller eggs...

Most are pre-WW2 German, a few date from my childhood and some from my first year in NYC when I lived near a once-long-ago German neighborhood...

And sleeping at the bottom were my bunnies!

I especial;y love the white homespun ones...

Bee Happy! Spring is here...soon?

love

                     lizzy

 gone to the beach.....

PS Be sure to check out Joan's blog Anything Goes Here. The photos and display ideas are wonderful! And her collections, oh my! Lucky for us she shares them, on her blog and in her shop! Her shop link is on her blog, so you can see even more treasured finds. Enjoy!