🐣 Easter Explosion 🐥

🐣 I have brought out my Easter decorations and my goodness.. I have collected a lot of cute things!  LOL!!  I'm not embarrassed or apologetic.  I love them. 🐥  

Michael picked me a little bouquet of wild Violets yesterday which I placed in one of my vintage Devon Violet perfume bottles.  They smell so wonderful!

Almost all of the things on the table.. lol.

My first vintage clay bottle is on the left.. then last year I found the one on the right on eBay or Etsy.. with the original stopper and even the lavender ribbon.. which had seen better days.

See the name on the one on the right?  As a potter I can tell you that they glazed the bottle and then let it dry, then used a pointed tool to etch out the words before it was fired.  Neat, huh?

OK.. now to show you some of my newer cuties.. how about this little girl in a chicken suit carrying a tiny basket of eggs?  :-)

These 3 came together and are named Easter Kids Parade by Bethany Lowe.  Sooo cute!

My little collection of Royal Doulton Bunny figurines, the newest is on the left.. Vintage Royal Doulton Bunnykins "Daisie Bunnykins".

Kristi surprised me with this cute bunny last year.

The bunny on the left I actually made in art class when I was in 7th or 8th grade when I was 12 or so.  It's ceramic and I sanded the mold marks off, glazed and painted it.  You stick cotton inside and pull it out of the tail to use.. so funny.

Here is my vintage glass bunny that came filled with candy from the 1940s!  As old as I am or even older!  I filled this with colorful jelly bean eggs for fun.

My basket filled with my own crocheted Easter eggs.

At our White Elephant sale at our last Portland Women's Forum meeting I picked up this set of woven baskets that my friend Shirley brought for the sale.  Someone else brought these cute little egg ornaments which I snagged for a quarter a bag.  :-)

These little eggs have cute vintage looking transfers on them.

And two bags of little painted wooden eggs and a fuzzy bunny.

Here is a birthday gift Shirley gave me which is a cast iron bunny holding two metal woven baskets.

Yesterday was so nice that I orchestrated a deck clean-up.  I swept some leaves, asked Michael to carry some things down to the garage, tie the deck chair cushions on and trim off the spent flowers on my hydrangea and then trim the dead leaves off our ornamental grass by the bird feeder.  I gave him some spending money for the help.  :-)

He also cut and pulled out some blackberry shoots and pulled some potted plants out of the grass.  

All the while we were getting the deck area tidied up, Dayle was driving the tractor around the pasture and into the woods to haul out fallen limbs and carry them to the burn pile.  He also was mowing the pasture while he was at it.  A very productive afternoon.

I'm so enjoying the sweet nature of Mocha.  She hops up on the footrest of my chair and enjoys a petting from me while I'm working on my laptop.  Which is what Buddy would do.  She has really filled the hole in my life left with the loss of our little dog we loved for 15 years.

I'm late posting today as we attended a Volunteer Training Workshop for the Friends of Multnomah Falls this morning.  It was held in the beautiful ballroom of McMenamin's Edgefield.  I  will show you some photos on my next post.  :-)

Happy Spring!!  🐣  ((hugs)), Teresa :-)