Tales From Pixie Wood

Easter Bunny Cosy Project - brought to you by Cherry Menlove & Yvestown

When she's behaving my bunny cosy sits nicely, with the flowers and the easter nest.

She'll even give you a twirl and show you her cotton tail bottom.

Sometimes she is naughty and hops off to hide in the crocuses.

But she always comes back and will perhaps settle down for a spot of reading.

But when you can't find her ANYWHERE, she's usually to be found in the cookie jar!

Woo hoo! Today is the day that Yvonne and I launch our Easter Bunny Cosy project, Download easterbunnycozy.pdf 

Yvonne and I have had some great chats on the phone recently and she actually came up with the cosy idea, I promised to come up with the next one, which I'll be popping across to her any day now!

We really want you all to have great fun coming up with an Easter Bunny cosy or cosies of your own. Create a character or better yet a whole family of them and DON'T FORGET to blog about it and upload it in to the Easter Bunny Cozy Flickr group that has been set up especially. I suppose that the closing date, if there is to be such a thing, would be Easter Sunday, but we all know bunnies aren't only for Easter......at least my one, with that demented look in it's little stitched eyeballs, will hopefully be around for a lot longer than that!

Have FUN, FUN, FUN and we can't wait to see what you come up with!

Cherry xoxoxo

The Start Of My Easter Tree

Here is the start of my Easter tree for this year. It resides in the hallway atop my Singer phone table and is no longer on the plate that you see in the picture. My aim for this year was to begin the run up to Easter with a fairly bare tree and see what goodies and random bits and bobbles I would end up attaching to its branches by the time Easter was done and dusted.

Recently, LBH and I rid ourselves of some Hazel branches which were growing in a crazy way at the bottom of the garden. So I nabbed one of them and painted it Green Ground, using one of my ever trusty Farrow & Ball sample pots.

When it was dry I plunged it into one of two white ceramic bedpans that I own, but which look far prettier as planters or receptacles for pretty Easter trees than their original use.

Bleugh..... bed pan..... BLEEEUUUGGHHH!!!!!

I covered the soil up with some bright green, 'straw like' material that I picked up in Salzburg and placed two tiny sheep in amongst it, in order that they may frolic in the sun which comes in through the front door each morning.

I also added some forget-me-not type flowers so that they may have some colour against the blinding green.

I added two painted bunnies. A pink one and a green one ,which was camera shy at the time of this shoot!

You'll also notice, standing guard, these wonderful little gnomes. I also bought these while in Salzburg from a lovely store called Mia De Roca. Regina, the owner, is a member of my forum and we had a lovely time meeting each other on our recent trip.

I've added some tiny hand embroidery......

...and the obligatory song bird.

I look forward to seeing how 'crowded' it gets as the weeks go on. There is nothing like the colours of Easter and Spring to revive me and whip me into a feeling good frenzy. Lashings of pastel shades, offset by vibrant greens are all I need to say '"Hello house, what shall we do today?" 

Does anybody else decorate their homes for Easter/Spring in a similar way to me?

Cherry xoxox