unexpected easter

My husband has been away for three weeks...and since I actually like my husband, that's a pretty long time. He was away for both his birthday and for Easter, so my rather sad dinner last night consisted of two slices of toast and some tea and chocolate biscuits.

It was therefore a lovely surprise to go outside just now and find a little present hanging on the door. Our former neighbor left a small basket filled with pysanky eggs, fun clips, and a large nut-covered penuchi that I'm pretty sure she made herself.

It was such a sweet and so thoughtful thing for her to do...and certainly teaches me to try and leave the house every once in awhile.

easter decorations

We've never really decorated for Easter before. We have lots of Christmas and Halloween decorations, but somehow we've never really celebrated the bunny...but when I saw these figurines in a Marshalls yesterday, I couldn't resist!

I love how two of the bunnies look like giant foil-wrapped chocolates. Several people asked me if they were real on the way to the register, which made me laugh, though it's completely understandable why they'd think so. They're pretty realistic looking in their coloring and sheen, and I especially like the little bit of blush on the lady bunny's cheeks. The big fellow is 20" tall and very well-priced at $14.99; the other two were $5.99 and $9.99 respectively.

My husband's coming home today after a few days away, so it'll be nice to greet him with a house full of rabbits. Won't he be surprised!

happy easter!

Our household is a little chaotic right now since we're in the middle of packing up for a move. We considered not doing Easter-y things this year because it's a little nutty, but we just couldn't resist the call of the bunny.

My husband and I somehow always manage to stay up realllly late decorating sugar cookies, although this year we finally found very small squeeze bottles that made the adornments much easier. They were also surprisingly easy to fill and clean, just so long as you do it while the royal icing is still liquid.

I also whipped together a pom pom bunny walking her pet Easter chick for our neighbor this year. I made the poms out of baby alpaca wool, used hand-dyed pink felt for the ears and nose, green dotted Bake it Pretty cupcake liners for the dress, a Skippy peanut butter jar lid for the base, and sewed on little beads for the bejeweled leash.

Hope that wherever you are, whatever you're celebrating, you're surrounded by great friends, a loving family, and perhaps even a bunny or two.