Easter Cupcakes............

Easter is finally here.

Cupcakes for my work tomorrow, to celebrate Easter, but also as a little farewell as I leave to start a new position next week.



I am looking forward to a lovely 5 day break - I really must make a list of what I hope to achieve. 

Gardening, stitching, some sanding and painting..........what a lovely time I am going to have being home.



A very Happy and Blessed Easter to all my friends who stop by here.

Easter Wishes.......

Just a little Easter decorating here this year. To tell the truth, I don't know where I put the Easter decorations away! It is a very safe place that is for sure!!

I had a lovely day in Brisbane, especially my visit to Ikea. Love that place!! Bought a few bits and pieces. The frames I wanted weren't there in stock. I did get two lovely big feather filled bolster cushions that I had seen the last visit - a year ago!! I will be looking for some fabric to make covers for them. They will be for the daybed on the deck.


These sweet eggs I found at Bed, Bath and Table. All the decorations were discounted - lucky I bought something new, or we wouldn't have any decorations at all.

This sweet little fellow I found last year.

We had lovely Hot Cross buns for breakfast today, followed by Church and then lovely fish for lunch.

I hope everyone is enjoying a lovely Easter weekend. Here in Australia it is a four day weekend. Unfortunately we have our bakery open Saturday and Sunday. Oh well, it is Hot Cross Bun weekend!!

Blessings for everyone for a Happy Easter.

Did You See that Bunny in my Garden!!.....

Well, I keep telling my family if they keep shaking their heads it might just fall off one of these days. You would think they would be used to "our" decorating style by now!!!!

Easter is almost upon us. So early this year. Of course it is Autumn here and I guess most Easter decorating is based on the theme of Spring and of course the new life that brings with it. Of course the celebration of Easter and the new life God gave to us never changes, so Easter in Autumn is of course different for us here is Australia. But, of course some of us may like to pretend that it is spring and do some decorating in pastel colours!! Much to the dismay of the family!!

So, here is my "Easter Tree"!! Now, I know there are some lurkers out there who know me and don't comment - so now you too can join my family and shake your head and agree with them. You can get the little decorations here, so we must be meant to have Easter trees. It does have an Australian theme too - I went onto the block next door where some gum trees have just be knocked down and got my branch from there.

My two cute little bunny ornaments came from a trip to the "thrift" shop this week - they were even having a half price sale. Bargain!!

What a roller coaster of a week I've had this week, hence only posting once again this week. My Mitchell has been sick for almost 8 weeks and has had four courses of antibiotics and still is so unwell. So, back to the doctor again and asked for blood tests - the results being he has Ross River virus. My poor boy. I feel so terrible as I have made him soldier on with only a few days off school. So home he is to rest completely at least until after Easter weekend and then I will have to see how he goes. I know he will recover and thankfully it is viral and not something worse but it did make me feel like a very bad Mummy!!

Did you see the Easter Bunny in my garden?

I am so pleased with how she turned out. I think I will call her Gracie. The pattern came from Australian Homespun No. 46 Vol.8 No.3. Too cute!!

The back is made from an old beadspread that I rescued from Nana's house, so I was very pleased to put it to good use.

Well I had better hippity hop out of here now, have a cuppa and off into the garden to finish the day off.