I spent some time today getting our house prepared for Easter. We'll have guests before, on and after Easter Sunday this year. So I want our house to look like we're celebrating Easter and not just a "happy spring" look.
Here's the wreath I quickly put together today. I used an Amazon gift card from my birthday last year to order a faux square boxwood wreath and a large weathered white cross. Those elements arrived this afternoon.
I used florist wire to attach the cross to the wreath and also to make a hanging hook on the back side. It was quick and easy, the way I like decorating to be these days. And I love how it turned out. I hung this wreath above the fireplace in the family room.
I also wanted to show you my spring bulb flower planter. I put this together a couple of years ago, scavenging all of the plants from other spots in the yard and potting them in an old, cracked, and moss-covered azalea pot, with a free-pile bird figurine. I love how the moss just grows on pots here. The flowers in the pot are grape hyacinth, a pale yellow primrose, a violet primrose, and a lone daffodil. All of the flowers are just now looking wonderful. A completely free spring flower bowl.
Do you decorate for Easter? Any favorite Easter decorations?
Lovely decor! The flower pot is absolutely stunning!
ReplyDeleteThank you. Spring flowers are always so welcome after a long, dull winter.
DeleteThat is the perfect wreath for Easter. And that pot of flowers is beautiful. How long will they stay in bloom?
ReplyDeleteThank you, Live and Learn. The primroses will last the longest, well into May, due to our cool and wet springs, here. The daffodil and grape hyacinth will last 2 to 3 more weeks, maybe until Easter, depending on weather.
DeleteI love the simplicity of your wreath. We are having a very very very rainy day in west Michigan, so your flower pot picture added a bit of cheer to my morning.
ReplyDeleteHi Kris,
DeleteI love the wreath, too.
At least it's rain and not snow in April in Michigan. I'm glad the flowers brought cheer!
I think your decor is lovely. I don't decorate for Easter myself because when my son was little he had allergies to aromatic flowers like hyacinth and even lilies. We just never decorated with all our busyness of children's school and now they are grown up we still don't decorate! We are really having stormy weather (and they say it could snow!). Sunday night there was a tornado touchdown under 5 miles away and thankfully headed in a direction away from us. We drove through and didn't see home damage but did see trees topples and farm items scattered in fields. They say it traveled 4.2 miles in 5 minutes with 80 MPH wind. Scary.
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Hi Alice,
DeleteOh, that sounds like scary weather! I have never lived in an area with tornados, but they do sound terrifying. I hope it has turned mild and uneventful now.
I love how you can make simple so elegant and beautiful. You inspire me to find ways to decorate or make things lovely with very small means using what I have or free piles. Your wreath is just Easter pretty!
ReplyDeleteFrom reading your blog I have learned so much. My good friend has scary eye surgery tomorrow and I so wanted to drop something on her porch in loving support but I have no money to stop and buy anything. BUT! I do have items here I could use and share. I reported a pansy into a pretty used mug with birds painted all over it and also baked some "pumpkin" cookies with frozen butternut squash and dumped in some dried cranberries. I tucked all if this in a basket I had I'm not currently using and wrote her a note and my daughter dropped it off on her way to work. Friend was delighted. I have much to learn, but truly, just getting creative helped me use what I could. You are an inspiration!
Amanda, your gifts sound better than something you would buy in a store. I'm sure your friend felt loved.
DeleteHi Amanda,
DeleteThe gift you created sounds so lovely and heartfelt. Your friend must have felt spoiled by the love you put into it. I hope she is recovering well, now.
So pretty! I especially love the spring flower pot with the moss. You do such a great job of making things look nice.
ReplyDeleteHi Cat,
DeleteThank you. I love the moss on that pot. The spring flowers are so cheery, something much needed on our rainy spring days here.