Happy!

Wishing all my friends and readers a very Happy Spring!

Happy Easter!

Happy Passover!

Easter Blessings

Grateful for all the blessings and gifts that we have been given...
especially for family and friends...

Happy Easter!
Happy Passover to our Jewish friends!
Happy Spring to all our friends everywhere!

Spring Cleaning or Spring Fever?

It was a glorious spring day!
I was busy every minute....working a little here...a little there...



The sunshine drew me outside and I raked out one garden bed...





I found myself playing and arranging spring like vignettes...





...and then the mailman came!
My tags arrived from Rosemary of Ozma of Odds...
... A Merchant of Handmade Artisan Oddities...
They were packaged so pretty!



I'm in love! Aren't these rabbit tags adorable?



She has such charming things in her Etsy Shop!



These fab tags fueled another camera session...



I did do some spring cleaning....not cleaning out per se...



...but I dusted off my Easter bonnet...



Perhaps I had a little touch of spring fever?
I did dig out a lot of zinc watering cans, buckets, chicken feeders, funnels and what not...



...and will show you that soon.

Tomorrow Kate is coming home for the day and we have a little shopping to do...
She has moved into a new apartment in Brooklyn and needs a few things...
Kate will "shop" here first and what she can't find in the Shop of Mom...
... we will search for elsewhere...
(Anthropologie??)

Don't worry....cleaning out will continue in earnest...
The weekend is upon us....Have a great one! :)

Spring Activities

Playing with a few Easter decorations...
I bought this pretty table runner last year at a close out sale...







The little bunny is an old tea drip catcher sitting on a cushion made from antique fabrics...by Kim Stout of Thistle Hill.
The heart was made using antique fabrics by my mother in law.



A few of my old chocolate molds.







...very pale blue eggs...





Spring is finally here!
There is lots to celebrate...
...and lots to be grateful for!

Tomorrow I am beginning the big clean out...
I will be going through boxes and closets and sorting and organizing.
Things will go to the thrift store... in the "to be sold pile" and in the trash!
This long overdue "spring cleaning" will continue for many weeks to come....

As a life long collector and having lived in the same home for over 36 years...
well, to be honest...I don't know what I have!

Stay tuned as I am sure to uncover some long forgotten treasures...
I will report my progress and my finds and may need some decision making help!
Do I keep? throw out? sell? donate?

It is overwhelming...daunting in fact...
...but I am resolved to get it done!

Are you with me?
:)

Silvery Mica Easter Egg

A pretty papered Easter egg with silver mica...















Hammered names on old tarnished silver plate...
...have what I need to make these myself now!



...silver screen dome







Silvery gray Starla...

For more participants in Silver Sunday visit Beth at Gypsy Fish Journal
Better late than never!
:)