A Simple Spring ~ Easter

Happy Spring, dear friends! Happy Easter, Happy Passover ~

This year I have tried to keep my spring and Easter decor low key and simple.

But I dearly love Eggs! And bunnies, and spring flowers.

New this year, wooden eggs from Target. I painted them with pastel chalk paint.

Mostly real blown out eggs, a long time collection. Bunny from folk artist Michelle Pooler.

Overblown yet beautiful parrot tulips.

Tiny branches found on walks after windy days. Seaglass bottles from my beach.

Faux nest, a long ago gift from my mom.

Tiny pugs!

Mr Bunny. My new piece of quilted batik gives a modern beachy hint to my traditional decor.

Chocolate molds.

The eggs again. I like them in the egg-like speckled old bowl. 

The real thing: Cadbury eggs in an old Mason jar.

Bright eggs in an old blue trencher or treenware bowl from Maine.

I made the rag ball eggs this year too. Hot glue gun and acrylic sealant, much more effective than last year's flops made with ModPodge.

Wishing you a happy weekend filled with all good things, and family and friends!

love

lizzy

gone to the beach................

Searching for Spring

Hello! Is it spring yet? Not here! My weather app tells me it's a balmy 75* in the city, but here at the beach it's barely 50 with a gale wind blowing hard out of the south. The chill does not stop beach people from sprouting shorts and flipflops, I noticed when I went to the village today for  Monday errands. It's school spring break and by gosh, the kids who didn't go to Cancun are gonna celebrate in style anyway. The surf beach parking lot was pretty busy, so I popped in to see what was happening, how it fared over the winter.

The boardwalk is installed.

It looks oddly the same as my own dune ramp, doesn't it?

 But then...The View. The dunes here are quite high, the beach is a steep drop blow. The view is amazing.

There's a horizontal  a ramp this year to help make the downward sloping scramble a bit easier and safer.

There were a few kids on the beach, some teens, some young moms with their out of school kiddies. Hahaha, all bundled up in parkas.

No surfers because of the onshore wind and hard choppy seas and shorebreak.

But beautiful in its windswept glory, as always...

I live a few miles beyond and behind these straw covered dunes.

No hint of green.

Maybe soon? In June? Is it spring-like where you are?

love

lizzy

gone to the beach....