Happy Easter & the rest of the crafty bits.

The daffodils are now looking beautiful all over the village green, we've done some Easter baking:

A rather messy ( helped by 3 yr old) bunny cake, egg nests, hot cross buns, Easter biscuits and jelly bean Biscotti.

I finished some more crafty bits: crochet Amigurumi bunny & chick, crochet eggs,

some more crochet hair slides.

I think the egg cosies are breeding!

A couple of lambs.

Yoyo & lace brooches.

and some Hen hearts.

L made this really sweet chicken card at school.

She also overloaded this table centre piece and the Easter tree :)

And finally I did the Easter craft and produce market yesterday, which was very successful in our new venue, even though it was absolutely tipping it down with rain.

Thankyou for all the comments on my last post re the 'makes' just to let you know they were made over quite a few weeks not all done in one :D and Gill I will try and find out the name of the hen/bird fabric for you, it is gorgeous.

Hope you all enjoy the rest of the Easter holiday as the sun is now thankfully out I think we will be going to the beach for an egg hunt.

I'd also like to say congratulations to a family friend who had a beautiful baby girl in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Easter swap and other Easter doings.

I've been neglecting my poor blog, that's the trouble when the sun comes out, too much to do. I popped on the other day and noticed 2 new followers, Lyn and Sylvia, which brought me up to 49 today I see it's 48 so I hope I haven't upset anyone! This happened before it was on 39 and suddenly went back to 37, strange, blogging is definately not good for paranoia!

Anyway more importantly my gorgeous Easter swap arrived from Nicky at hollypops I was thoroughly spoiled with a beautful hand painted card,

the cutest bunny ever and a very pretty lavender filled heart.

Look at this exquisite tray cloth and embroidered mats, aren't they beautiful?

And finally some very pretty napkins oh and of course some chocolate eggs and a Lindt bunny, don't know were they've gone!

Thankyou so much Nicky for such a lovely swap and thankyou also to Pixiedust for organizing it. My faith in swaps is now restored, after not receiving my Christmas decoration swap so I've now signed up for Silkie Sue's freestyle swap and have been partnered with Lyn .....Hi Lyn.

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Now on to what else has been happening here .... Lily and Tara have been decorating gingerbread bunnies.

Lily made some Easter stick puppets.

And we went to Eden to see the fantastic display of Spring bulbs.

The smell of Hyacinths is overwhelming.

Beautiful tulips everywhere in an array of colours.

And some amarylis

Daffodils

Anemones

And this delightful display advertising the big lunch on the 19th of July, you can look on the website for the event in your area.

Now I must get ready for toddler group, it's a couple of hours before it starts but Lily likes to take her time getting ready!

Fluff and Feathers.

In my boredom this morning I thought I would gather together my bunnies for an Easter portrait. Starting with an Easter garland that I copied from Lisa.

There are quite a few bunnies in this house, sadly no real ones.

I know ..... the hare snuck in there!

I then started on my feathered friends again no real ones, not yet anyway. Some fat hens I got the pattern for these from the April issue of Prima magazine.

This one's already had chicks.

Group photo.

Lilys' efforts - the card we made at toddler group and pompom chicks/ bunny.

I didn't want to leave the geese out,

or the lambs!

So that's that all the fluff and feathers now bring on the chocolate!

Nearly forgot my Easter tree, I must add it doesn't usually block the kitchen door, it was the only bit of blank background I had.
Hope you all have a lovely Easter.