Easter is just a week away and felt I needed to get this blog posted on Easter Decorations. This time of the year brings to mind many precious memories of my childhood, my two sons childhood and now my grandsons. I’m looking forward to seeing my grandsons here at Nana and Pops house for Easter. They love the decorations, Easter goodies and the egg hunt of course. Our home is decorated with lots of items that I have made or have been given over the years from family and friends.
The foyer table has a tree, that I received from a friend who had a retail store several years ago. It was used for scarfs. I spray painted it and made it into an egg tree for my sons and now grandchildren.
I hot glued flower blossoms on it and hung special ornaments I received, added some Easter grass and bunnies. The book was a gift to me in 1966 from my cousin Elizabeth Peterson. It has been cherished for many years.
Our living room I have decorated with a dogwood blossom theme.
The painting above the mantel is an acrylic painting I did from a photograph I took, when I lived in North Carolina in the 1990’s.
The coffee table is decorated with colorful glass eggs, bunny plates and bowls and a Easter Egg I made out of papier mache. My sons, Jonathan and Joseph both enjoyed making eggs of their own. In the 1990’s when I lived in North Carolina, I taught paper mache classes to kindergarten through third grade, at March Super Saturday’s for four years at the elementary school my sons attended. The children and their parents were always so proud of the eggs they made. I never had any problems getting parents to volunteer to help out in my classes because they wanted to learn as much as the children did.
Here on one of the end tables I put some old Easter post cards under the glass, that were from my great-grandparents, Fritz & Emily Tiemann. Remember you can do this too with any cards you cherish. I have even put some under the glass on my desk. On the table are two Styrofoam eggs my mother, Ruby Kobs-Lange made me years ago.
Now for the dining room, I made a spring arrangement in a yellow depression glass bowl that belonged to my grandmother, Selma Tiemann Sander. I added some pearl beads, ceramic chicks and ducklings. Clean and Simple!
On the buffet I have some green depression glass and crystal items with more paper mache eggs.
Above the buffet is my first watercolor of morning doves, that I did in the late 1990’s.
The Pink Iris is a watercolor I did around the same time from a photograph of mine.
Here in our den I continued the dogwood theme and added some azaleas.
Here is a 24″ x 36″ acrylic painting I did of pink & white dogwoods in 1996. I love being able to use and change out my paintings for the different seasons. It gives our home a constant new fresh look.
The opposite side of the room I accented with the dogwood and azaleas too.
Dogwoods, candles, ceramic doves and the cross complete the decorations on the mantel.
I placed a basket of azaleas with two paper mache bunnies. I cannot take the credit for the bunnies. They were purchased. 
These ceramics were gifts that are on one of the side tables in our den. The embroidered cloth is something my mother did as a teenager.
Above this antique sideboard is a photo on canvas I took about ten years ago when we actually had bluebonnets in our yard. Over the years of fertilizing and killing out weeds we have no more. Bluebonnets love poor soil, as do the other wildflowers. I added another photograph along with a caricature of us. I added an Easter basket with some silk thread eggs and a crystal basket with Almond M&M’s. My favorite!
In our kitchen, I decorated behind my sink with hyacinths and azaleas, bunnies, Easter mugs, eggs and a cookie tin.
The centerpiece on our kitchen table is a wreath I purchased about seven years ago. My parents had ducks at that time. We enjoyed a many a good duck egg at that time. My dad would blow out the eggs. He gave me several that I filled in the holes, primed, painted with Easter colors and did some splatter painting to give them that speckled look. I found a package of tiny speckled eggs to add some contrast to my design and there you have it an Easter egg wreath.
I put a candle holder and a pale yellow candle inside and it makes a beautiful centerpiece.
Our kitchen hutch has a vase of blue dutch irises and various other blue & white accents. The acrylic painting is not one of mine. It was done by a friend of my husbands when he first built the house in the early 1990’s. Inside the hutch are lots of keepsakes. I have Open Lace depression glassware my mother collected for me and my parents wedding china featured at the bottom. I have Easter keepsakes between the glassware that I’ve received from my mother and friends. On the top shelf I have a tiny book of Peter Rabbit along with a ceramic figure of him.
The Easter egg on the cake stand is one my mother made out of a Styrofoam shaped egg. She cut it lengthwise and scooped out the middle and added a Easter cottage inside. She finished it off with ribbon, lace and flowers. I hope you can see the cottage inside.
I filled the middle shelf with an Easter scene with bunnies, egg tree and cottages.
On the bottom shelf you can see two more eggs she made. Wish I could get a zoom attachment to work on this blog for you to be able to see them better.
I hope I’ve inspired you in your Easter decorating. I know we do not all have the same tastes and mine are very traditional, but hopefully you can use some of my ideas and make them your own. I enjoy decorating for Easter and it’s not about the eggs, bunnies, ….. but just remember the reason for the season is Jesus Christ! “It was love that took my place on the cross of Calvary; It was grace redeeming grace that paid my ransom full and free. Over sin without, within I have the victory through grace marvelous grace that lives in me.” This is the chorus of my favorite hymn in the Cokesbury Worship Hymnal #153 “Love, Mercy & Grace”.
Until my next post…….God Bless You!
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