This week I have my annual Easter Make & Bake coming up. I love everything about this yearly session with our friends. It is a proper crafternoon – a chance to catch up with friends, learn new crafts and / or teach the children some new crafts and skills, plus there’s coffee and homemade cakes.… Continue reading Create Your Own Easter Artwork
Do you remember the show on the BBC The Great Egg Race? I don’t remember much about the actual series but I was fascinated by the opening. I looked it up recently to show the children and was pleased they like it to. This post is nothing to do with the TV series and everything… Continue reading The Great Egg Race, or 3 Last Minute Easter Decorations
Being a working mother has made me terribly efficient at shopping. I can cram in a few purchases into the tiniest of time slots. Take last week for example. With a little bit of time to kill at the train station in Darmstadt after a meeting, I popped into the super market and bought a… Continue reading Wire Basket Easter Centrepieces
Lent and the run up to Easter have felt long this year but even still, I have barely had time to prepare at all. Here and there in a snatched few minutes I have done a few bits and pieces. Planting some Easter grass took less than five minutes. Getting the box of decorations from… Continue reading Planting A Mini Easter Garden
It is no secret that we go to County Mayo in Ireland on holidays almost every year. Since Number One and Number Two have arrived at an age where we can go to a museum and not have to listen to “I’m sooooo boooorrred!” for the duration of the visit, we try to get to… Continue reading Easter Events at Ballycroy National Park
Life is busy as ever and Easter will be upon us before we know it. Over the past week or so I have found myself making some plans. Well, not so much plans as spur of the moment preparations. A couple of packs of egg shell dye landed in the shopping basket the day I… Continue reading Early Easter Ideas
For the third year in a row I have held a Make & Bake Day. The first year we had to scale down completely due to Number Two coming down with mysterious pains and having to stay in hospital for observation. The second year we had a few people cry off ill, but we had… Continue reading Our Easter Make & Bake Day
This year, while pruning in the garden, we cut our kiwi tree back quite a lot and ended up with loads of beautiful gnarled and twisted off cuts. The Bavarian was all set to chuck them in the shredder, but I managed to rescue a nice stack of the best ones, with the intention of… Continue reading Decorating Our Staircase For Easter
The other day I was looking for something in the cellar and I found one of the things I hate most in the world. No, no a mouse, thankfully, although I am not too fond of them either. No, I am talking about wasted food. What I found was a whole basket of  potatoes, soft… Continue reading Counting Down To Easter With Kids – Potato Stamping Easter Eggs & Bunnies
About a week ago I wrote about how to grown your own Easter grass. Ours is now lovely, long and thick and as such perfect for decorating with. We’ve tried something new this year – a field of woolly little sheep. What you’ll need: Easter grass Cocktail sticks (2 per sheep) Wool in various sheep-like… Continue reading Counting Down To Easter With Kids – Making a Field Of Sheep
