Tonight’s the night to dye all those Easter Eggs for the Easter Bunny to come and hide.
Here are some Eggstrordinary Easter Ideas:
1. Egg Cup Vases: Fleuretica
2. Silhouette Easter Eggs: Le Papier Studio
3. Watercolored Eggs: Atelier Christine
4. DIY Marbled Easter Eggs: Minted
5. New York Subway Easter Eggs: The SoHo Blog
6. Natural Dyed Eggs: The Sweetest Occasion
7. Kool-Aid Dyed Eggs: Puj Blog
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Look what I’ve been pinning lately:
1. Chocolate Easter Bunny Cake: The Cake Blog
2. Bunny Cookies & Milk: Munchkin Munchies
3. Six Layer Coconut Covered Chocolate Peep Cake: Half Baked Harvest
4. Easter Bunny Cake: Craftsy
5. Peep Pops: Sweet Lulu
1. DIY Eggshell Tea Lights: Little Inspiration
2. DIY Easter Egg Candy Boxes: Coco and Mingo
3. Pastel Easter Eggs: Victoria Magazine
4. Miffy Easter Tote: Small Fry
5. DIY Easter Favor Bags: A Pretty Cool Life
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Cha Cha Moon is one of our favorite little places for fast and delicious food. There is nothing better for dinner on a cool Spring day after a 3 hour walk in the park than a bowl of Wonton Soup.
Happiness is…
The name of our restaurant was also befitting, as last night the moon was so full and close to us, I think we could have walked down the street, hopped along the stars and kept on going till we reached the moon.
This was my view as I came out of the tube this morning. The sun was shining and it was a glorious walk to school. All I could think of was the beat to Monday Monday, the Mamas & The Papas song. Although, compared to the lyrics of the song, I have had a wonderful morning, it was just the sound of this song that was in my head as I walked down the street. Happy Monday to you, wherever you may be today!
Snapped this from my train window as I headed home from work tonight. It felt like Spring for a little bit there, but now the sky has clouded over and it looks like it will rain at any moment. But that’s okay! The taste of Spring for those few moments was enough to sustain me.
We ushered in April today and I can’t believe we are already 4 months in to this new year. This was a picture I snapped over the weekend. It is one of the many trees in full bloom in Regent’s Park. When the wind blew and the blossoms floated off, it looked like a miniature snowstorm.
Last night we pushed our clocks forward and don’t ask me why 1 hour has made such a difference to our day, but it has. We are like zombies today! This weekend, has truly felt Spring like. We went for a long walk in Regent’s Park yesterday and you could definitely tell that the sunshine had drawn everyone outside to play. Living in England you have to soak up the sun every chance you get! If the sun has come out to play you better take advantage of it for you don’t know when it will be back!
The baby ducklings were out and we watched them with their mamas paddle around in the lake. The trees were full of blossoms and the bulbs were in full bloom, the sky was a perfect robin’s egg blue and the sunshine streamed down through the tree branches. In essence, it felt like Spring. Springtime makes me think of Bambi. I recently read a beautiful post on the Colossal Blog about the highly talented Tyrus Wong.
Born in China in 1910, his family emigrated to the United States when he was 9 years old. His teachers noticed his artistic talent and continued to encourage and nurture it. Which eventually led to a career in Hollywood. From 1938 – 1941 he worked for Disney as an inspirational sketch artist. It was his pastel sketches of the forest that served as the inspiration for Bambi.
All artists put their own spin on their work. I believe that you can see the artistic influence of his Chinese heritage within his work. Notice how the boughs of the tree are drawn and the rocks are placed. It is almost as if he has drawn a highly stylized Oriental garden design. I know it appears more Japanese in style than Chinese, but I can see a fusion of Asian culture and design.
Today Mr. Wong, still lives in California. He is 103 years old. The artists that worked for Disney past and present never cease to amaze me. But for me, their is a nostalgia to the older artists, the likes of Mary Blair, Eyvind Earle and Tyrus Wong. There is magic in their drawings.
To read the full article on Colossal click HERE.
These were a treat to myself this week. A bunch of tulips that I picked up at Whole Foods on my way home. The are filling the cottage with Springtime happiness!
It didn’t feel like Spring when I left the house this morning. The air was bitter and a mist was shrouding my little world like a blanket. By lunch time however, the clouds had passed and the sunshine came out to play for just a little bit, until the skies turned grey again and it began to rain.
While the sun was out, I snapped this picture coming down the staircase in the Science building where I had ventured over to get some distilled water for the dark room. I loved how the light was dancing across the glassy green tiles and I stopped for a moment to watch it. It is cold again this evening, but that little taste of Spring today was enough to make me happy.
Magnolia liliiflora, or as I have always called them Japanese or sometimes tulip magnolias practically line a particular street that I stroll down on my walk to school in the morning.
They are all in full bloom and every single one, is this blushing creamy, pinky, purpley hue. They are dazzling to see. The ground is strewn with their petals. I feel guilty walking across the delicate fallen who mark my path. They look almost sacred as if they line the pathway to a mountain temple where a little Buddha sits in waiting.