April In Paris and A Happy Easter

We are off to Paris on Sunday. I love April in Paris, the prettiest time of the year.

We will be staying with our daughter Charlotte and her partner Badara and get the chance to see our baby grandaughter Tiana for the first time since last October.

We will be hitting the brocantes and flea markets and I will be reporting back whilst on the go. In the meantime I leave you with these beautiful Easter images by stylist - Dietland Wolf




Paris image via Je Suis un Lapin on Tumblr

The Versatility of Eggs and Happy Easter

No one can deny that eggs are versatile and to prove it I have put together some of the things you can do with them

Pierre Marcolini has created a flat one that can be placed in this gorgeous


box with other Easter Treats

Bodie and Fou have eggs that are candles sitting in a nest of straw.

You can leave some memories of the chicken with them, they even look beautiful when broken.


Paris in an egg. Now that's my sort of egg.

Very useful for plant pots

Placed in sunlight with a simple shadow falling onto them.

Stencilled using a doilly.
Have I proved my point?

Too Busy To Paint Eggs

I am up to my eyes in work, no time to paint eggs this year. Just stick a plate of eggs in the shadow of something pretty and whala - no effort required.
I wish I could take credit for this idea but I found it on Flickr

Easter Treats From Me To You

Fabulous Easter Flowers from Herve Gambes

Laduree do Easter in Colour

Felt Rabbit for keeping your food warm from Rose and Radish - if you love it it's in the Easter Sale

Beautiful nest of handmade eggs from Zanz in Norway

Jean Paul Hevin has created this amazing Arty Compression Egg. It would be a shame to eat it.

Delicately detailed, hand painted eggs from Hungary

Look Chocolate Emails From Jean-Paul Hévin

Did you know that you can send a chocolate email courtesy of Jean-Paul Hévin the famous French Chocolatier?
Can you lick the screen to taste?

Easter Gifts With a Difference

Here's a great Easter gift for someone who is on a diet. Unless they're very hungry they can't eat soap.
From Caroline Zoob

Another Easter Idea With a Difference

No this isn't real but it certainly looks it. An unusual gift for Easter but not for the faint hearted as it has real feathers. 28cms high and only £17.50
From Joanna Wood

Another Easter Idea With a Difference

Here's an idea for an Easter gift. If the parents don't like their kids eating chocolate eggs then how about these little egg covers. So cute from Mahar Dry Goods