BUNNIES AND BONNETS

Every Easter we see shop fronts decorated with bunnies and eggs. Although not related to the actual meaning of Easter, who can resist the cute bunny and the delicious chocolate egg?

So I decided to make a soft toy bunny. As I have no paper pattern for the bunny I created my own resulting in an eighteen inch tall bunny complete with contrasting coloured ears and feet.

Every good bunny deserves a bonnet so I made the bonnet as well.

                              And here she is, Betsy Bunny adorning her new bonnet.

Still with bunnies on my mind, I also made a baby quilt for someone special. The

different layers of fabric are held together by hand sewn decorative stitches.

And now the all important eggs.....

These are decoupaged foam eggs.

Multi coloured foam eggs cascading out of a floating cup.

And this Easter I received 2 very special Finnish Easter chocolate eggs from a lovely friend. Most chocolate eggs are hollow but the Finnish  Mignon chocolate egg is solid full of almond hazelnut nougat chocolate goodness inside a real egg shell!

This Easter confectionery is made by the Fazer company, dating back from 1896, when Karl Fazer brought the recipe from Germany. Enduringly popular as parts of Finnish Easter celebrations with around two million eggs sold per year, Mignon eggs are handmade at the Fazer factory in Vantaa.

Matchbox Mania

As a child, I had a big box where I kept lots of used stuff for handicraft - pegs, ice-cream sticks and matchboxes etc. I created a whole convoy of trucks and cars out of matchboxes. Now that I'm using matches again to light the fireplace, I've decided to turn these boxes into keepsakes for friends.

                                                           A Vintage Dresser

A small cameo trinket box

A cup of tea for a friend

And finally, with Easter just round the corner, there are lots of eggs-iting and eggs- traordinary things to create from matchboxes as well.

A vintage Easter bunny with his fine collection of Reese's peanut butter chocolate eggs

Alice in Wonderland Easter bunny and Reese's peanut butter chocolate eggs

A bear dozing in his bunny onesie with 2 eggs for himself