Hoppy 4th Tuesday, dear friends! Our friend Cindy of County Road 407 has challenged us to create a Spring Lantern for this month’s Pinterest Challenge, and boy do we have cuteness inspiration ideas on overload for you…
Welcome, everyone! If you are coming over from Carol at Bluesky at Home for the first time, an extra big welcome!! For anyone who has never been to one of our Pinterest Challenges, Cindy finds a photograph for us to recreate in our own way, and we run with the idea.
Ann from On Sutton Place has created our inspiration tablescape this time. She has used a couple of white lanterns filled with coconut fiber bunnies, some easter grass, and a sweet pitcher of pussywillows. I personally love all the white!
How did I begin my Spring Lantern?
I began by sorting through my box of spring decor, of course! I looked at everything and pulled some things out and put others back.
I went to Hobby Lobby looking for an new lantern but they weren’t on sale, and I just didn’t want to spend a lot. So, I pulled out the lantern I used in a previous Pinterest Challenge to use again. 🙂
I didn’t come home with a new lantern from the store; however, I DID come home with these cute flower-strewn Easter eggs, some fun paper carrots, and a new vintage-looking sign!
Love ’em!!!
So, I set down this grey tobacco basket and began tucking in shredded green grass, then I added a tree cut as a base for my lantern, and picked a bunny and the whole lot of Easter Eggs to put inside the lantern…
That’s when a story popped into my head:
The Story ~ BunBun’s Jam
BunBun, our sweet little girl, busied herself bringing in Easter eggs to fill her glass lantern garden greenhouse. She worked diligently and swiftly prepping for the year’s early morning Easter delivery of eggs to good little girls and boys of the town.
She was so busy bringing in all of these freshly painted eggs, tucking them here and there inside that lantern greenhouse, she didn’t think about how she was going to get herself back out the door again once those eggs were all indoors…
All of a sudden, BunBun realized that she was stuck! Poor little bunny…
What was she going to do? She’d really gotten herself in a pickle this time.
Meanwhile, her friends were busy outside…
Ducky and Princess Chicky-Poo were busy with spring gardening. They were planting more carrot seeds, seeing that the fall-planted ones had grown so well (and they were still picking those delicious carrots to eat!).
The rabbits were busy setting out spinach starts, a few chive seeds, as well as some daisy and Texas bluebonnet seeds for future picking! The rabbits especially love purple flowers for their dining table bouquets!!!
Looking up and hearing BunBun’s muffled voice and seeing her tap-tapping on the glass, they quickly realized her predicament. The group thought swiftly and hatched a plan. They would lift one corner of the glass lantern so their friend could slip underneath without disturbing the carefully placed eggs.
“Okay, on three!” shouted Ducky to the others. “One, two, three!!!” Everyone grunted a bit while paws and palmate feet slowly lifted the lantern side skyward.
As the glass house was tilted up, BunBun slid down and underneath. She was free! Cheers arose from this gaggle of friends! Everyone hugged BunBun, and she hugged and thanked each friend in turn.
They celebrated BunBun’s release with a cream tea and, of course,…
a slice of carrot cake. :)’
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Thanks for stopping by, friends! If you haven’t subscribed to FE, I’d love it if you do. We swing back up to Cindy at County Road 407 next and I know you will love her lantern idea!! And please stop by all of our friends and check out what everyone has created for you.
Easter week is here and with it I have put together an easy Easter table setting for you. My hope is that it brings you joy and inspires you to create a beautiful tablescape in your own home. Celebrating Christ’s resurrection is a glorious reason to celebrate…
On our table are the sweet momma and baby bunnies from this post.There is a selection of teas both caffeinated and herbal for visiting bunnies to enjoy. Softened butter for warmed scones will also make our friends feel right at home.
Our table is set for a simple dinner tea. Colorful plastic eggs and a special bunny ornament grace the table. Candlesticks were added then subtracted as they detracted from the simplicity of this tablescape. Sometimes simple is better…
A new table runner found at HomeGoods during the winter graces our table and repeats our bunny theme.
I love its sweet rabbits and the French style it has!
Are you doing anything special for your family as you shelter indoors this Easter Sunday?
I learned a neat idea this morning on a Zoom call with friend April J. Harrisas one of the other ladies on the call said she and her husband would be having Easter dinner via a Zoom-type call with their children so everyone could be together virtually and celebrate Easter!! A really wonderful idea…
A simple scone recipe
I think I have shared these baking powder biscuit-style scones before with you but it never hurts to share a good recipe again… :)’
Classic Cream Scones
Fine Cooking magazine, Winter 2004
published by freelance writer Carol Anderson
reviewed for a newspaper (unknown)
2 ½ cups all-purpose flourFor the glaze:
1/3 cup granulated sugar1 lg. egg, beaten with
1 Tbsp. baking powder1 Tbsp. milk
½ tsp. saltsprinkle sugar on top
½ cup dried currants (or any dried fruit)
6 Tbsp. cold unsalted butter, cut into small cubes
¾ cup heavy cream
2 large egg yolks
Position oven rack in lower third of the oven; heat oven to 425 degrees.Line a heavy baking sheet with parchment paper sprinkled with flour.
In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.Add currants, tossing until evenly distributed and coated with flour (I put dried cranberries in my scones this time).Cut in butter with pastry blender until the largest pieces are about the size of peas.
In a small bowl, stir cream and egg yolks just to blend.Add this all at once to flour mixture.Stir with a fork to begin combining the wet and dry ingredients, then use your hands to gently knead mixture together until all dry ingredients are absorbed into dough and it can be gathered into a ball. Don’t overknead. **Tip: if you don’t have any cream on hand, replace with sour cream thinned and whisked with a little milk.
The dough is sticky at this point.Set the ball on floured parchment paper and pat it gently into a round that is 1” thick.Cut round into 8 wedges (*I used a heart-shaped cookie cutter).Separate wedges slightly.Brush scones with glaze; sprinkle a bit of sugar on them.
Bake until the scones are deep golden and a toothpick inserted into the center of a wedge comes out clean.This will take 13 to 15 minutes.
Slide the parchment onto a rack and let the scones cool for about 10 minutes before serving.Makes 8.
***Carol Anderson says in her article that “good scones follow three basic rules of biscuit making: plenty of cold butter and cream, a light hand when mixing, and a high oven temperature.**My tip: If you’d like to make your scones like those you’d have as a mid-afternoon tea, make a bigger round scone.The one I had in England was a bigger scone and was meant to eat almost like a meal.
Thank you for joining me for tea today and I hope you have a wonderful Easter with good food, lots of FaceTime and phone calls to family and friends!
Share Your Style will be up tomorrow but after that I am going to take a small break until next week. Thank you, dear friends!
Jesus is risen indeed!!!
💒
For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 NIV Paul in his first letter to the people of Corinth, about 55 A.D.
Spring is in the Airis this month’s bunny-filled Pinterest Challengeand our inspiration came from Lisa of A Simply Styled Nest on Instagram. Lisa has graciously allowed us to use her Instagram photo to share with you. Thank you, Lisa!
I’d like to also thank toCindy who writes the very cool farmhouse styled blog County Road 407 for hosting today’s hop, thanks Cindy!
We have a fun group of designers and decorators sharing their beautiful Easter + Spring centerpieces with you today…
If you are coming over from Carol at Bluesky at Home or are new to French Ethereal, welcome!
Let’s get hopping, shall we?
Some bunny loves me
Is the title of my spring centerpiece as sweet bunny rabbits are always fun to decorate with! Spring is in the Airlends itself to rabbits and eggs as there are so many possibilities for decorating with them for spring, Easter and Passover.
Rabbits are historically a symbol of new life being that many litters of rabbits are born in the springtime. The symbolism behind eggs is also a sign of new birth and life so both feature prominently in today’s basket centerpiece.
Mr. Rabbit has had a little media press each year and you can find his posts here and here.
For this table setting
I immediately noticed that Lisa used a wooden dough bowl as the base of her table’s centerpiece. Recently I purchased this painted whitewashed tobacco basket and thought it would work well with my Easter theme.
Bring the garden indoors
I had this bag of all-purpose moss that I found at Joann Fabrics last year. I used it around a little spring dried floral pot but had plenty left over for this project.
The beauty of moss is that it can be refreshed with just soaking it in water for a minute or two then letting it dry on a towel. Such a quick way to revive it and make it to puff up a bit ~ perfect for creating a natural look to any Easter or springtime display!
A sweet Easter ornament I found last year plus two metal
chocolate molds I picked up at the cash and carry sales during
The goodies I started with… Fun plastic eggs and candies picked up at The Dollar Tree.
To make a similar arrangement
*Look around your home for a similarly shaped basket or find one at
your local thrift shop or hobby store. One with a handle would be really cute ~ I have a handled flower gathering basket coming from storage which we used as our little bridesmaid’s basket at our wedding ~ so fun to repurpose these older baskets.
* Pick up an assortment of chocolate rabbits and egg shaped candies
to use for your themed basket.
*Add in a piece like this cement garden rabbit along with vintage chocolate molds, plastic Easter eggs and anything with a sweet bunny rabbit or two on it to fill in your basket.
*Use a little floral foam to help prop up your items then decorate with strips cut from the sheet moss. You’re done! 😉
Photographs taken on our first day in our new home. 🙂
As this was our actual first day in possession of our new home I quickly put this tablescape together for you. The previous owners were stopping back by later on so I used some of the plastic eggs and candies and made a little nest for their daughters.
Aren’t these girls adorable? They are young gymnasts and just the sweetest!
Mom and Dad graciously allowed me to share
these two cuties with you today. Thanks, Mom and Dad!!!
Later on I found this little guy who wanted to
get in on the action, too…
😉
I’d sure love it if you’d share my pin, thank you!
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My post is the last one on the tour today but if you are just beginning your hop around… Follow the links here for even more spring inspiration!
And do stop back by to pick up where you leave off at any time ~ the links will be here.
Welcome to Week #199 of Share Your Style! Can you believe we are almost at that 200 mark? We are proud that Share Your Style is still going strong and that you are here to help us celebrate this mini landmark! Hello, I am Barbara and it’s my turn this week to host the party. Welcome to you all and please feel free to share our party on your social media ~ we appreciate the love!
A few party rules:
*Please visit a few blogs while you are here and make a new friend or two. *Feel free to link up to three home decor, DIY, crafts and recipe posts, thanks! Backlinks would be greatly appreciated as we try to grow… *And if you would follow your hosts we would appreciate it! Check out our other social media sites, too. Plus keep in mind that Google is eliminating Google+ at the end of March if you follow me there and any of your other friends. Kristin hosts White Arrows Home on WordPress so her’s is safe.
I am sharing a trip to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Walnut Grove, Minnesota. This was part of our larger visit to see my son and daughter-in-love and their new home in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. We also went to visit an apple picking farm during our trip and snapped some incredible photos in the freshly fallen first snow of the season plus their friendly sweet dogs Bandit and Luna.
This is a quiet blog week for me as I just drove 1330+ miles by myself from Texas to California to meet the movers at our two 10’x25′ storage units. Our household goods have been in storage these past 3 1/2 years and finally everything will be moving into our new Texas home! I can’t wait to share more of our home with you as we unpack and then begin work on garden design later this spring.
Kristin has a monthly book club and in this post she shares three good reads!
Now for this week’s features
Up first this week is more from Deb-bee’s Buzz‘ wonderful
Wonderland Tea Party!Table decor and the menu is shared in this whimsical tea party themed post with links to her previous.
Love the fascinators!!!
This adorable DIY Umbrella Table Planter created by Victoria at Dazzle While Frazzled had me at garden-hello!
These Easy Strawberry Oatmeal Bars by Erin at Suburban Simplicity look so delicious and the strawberries are sooogood this year! I know you’ll want to bake some of your own.
;)’
This adorable DIY Umbrella Table Planter created by Victoria at Dazzle While Frazzled had me at garden-hello!
These Easy Strawberry Oatmeal Bars by Erin at Suburban Simplicity look so delicious and the strawberries are sooogood this year! I know you’ll want to bake some of your own.
daily lives and make them better. Mr. Ethereal and I have personally been working the Dave Ramsey “live-only -on-cash” plan for over a year now ~ and it works!
Lori at Dining Delight created this fun and festive St. Patrick’s Day tablescape~ perfect as a last-minute idea to use in our own homes.
Love all the green!
Our last feature this week is from Marie who writes The Interior Frugalista and shares how to make a Box Store Table Look Expensive.
Please stop by each of our featured artists and let them know how much you like their work! Let’s party!
Welcome back to another week full of inspiration! Our 196th Share Your Style Link Party is LIVE and we can’t wait to see what posts you have to share! I’m Kristin of White Arrows Home and I’m excited to be hosting this week!
Welcome back to another week full of inspiration! Our 196th Share Your Style Link Party is LIVE and we can’t wait to see what posts you have to share! I’m Kristin of White Arrows Home and I’m excited to be hosting this week!
We have just a few simple guidelines: please link up to (3) posts each week which are family friendly and related to interior design and home decor, craft ideas, DIY projects, recipes and the like.
We look forward to seeing what you are sharing this week!
In our last house I was always setting our large oak
dining room tableor this smaller round pedestal table for tea.
On this occasion I created at Easter time I decorated with some
of my favorite vintage tableware and this
sweet little birdie.
Sometimes my tea times could be just tea for a few friends such as in this little tea for my birthday above.
Other times it could be a tea for one as this
little tea was.
🙂
At the peacock tea there were real peacock feathers decorating the table and over on the teacart as well. Little peacock notebook favors were gifts from the hostess to her guests to take home.
While out in the garden I saw several garden employees
so I went to ask some questions about a particular rose.
She ended up giving me a couple of clippings as she was trimming it that day!
Later this week I’ll share how to root a new rose bush from a clipping. 🙂
Hope you’ve enjoyed our little garden tour. Sharing with Blogging Fifty ~ Facebook Romantic Homes ~ Facebook Wow ~ Savvy Southern Style Feathered Nest Friday ~ French Country Cottage Friendship Friday ~ Create with Joy Sweet Inspiration ~ The Boondocks Blog Thursday Favorite Things ~ Katherine’s Corner
This winter I’d set up a little “heater” to help the plants
during the cold nights with this bucket stuck in another
black greenhouse bucket.
How to make a garden heater
I’d seen a version of this while watching a homesteading
show and thought maybe it would work to protect
our tender plants…
Normally this would be done inside a greenhouse
but I didn’t have one and I didn’t think our landlords
would let me set up a cement block version
so…
this is what I came up with:
A mini garden heater
1) Fill a container with water and cover with a lid.
2) Paint with black paint or tape off with black duct tape
{which is what I did}
3) During the day the “garden heater” will absorb
sunlight and heat up, then at night it will release
its heat.
Here I’ve just used the leftover water to water
the newly planted lettuces.
Monsieur Rabbit approved of my recycling!
😉
Creating a heated greenhouse for homesteading
1) Ideally, a greenhouse is built out of cement blocks,
logs, planks of recycled wood on three sides
{or built into a hillside for the third side/back side}
with the fourth side at the front composed of
all glass windows and an entry door.
2) The greenhouse is filled with river rocks for a floor
and then large drums painted black, filled with water sealed and are placed inside the greenhouse.
The drums or a series of painted pipes would sit
at the front of the greenhouse to absorb
the maximum sunlight during the day. Both rocks and drums/pipes would heat the greenhouse all through the night.
3) Shelves are made for potted plants and seedlings
and larger potted plants can be set on the stones.
The heat given off by these water-filled drums or by a series of black painted water-filled pipes at night will create a sustainable warm environment for growing vegetables throughout the late fall through winter.
4) A roof would be made from logs or framing with
a metal roof covering. This can be insulated, too.
I was blown away with the whole idea!
I’ve wanted a little greenhouse for years but in the hot
Southern California climate it was never going to be
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