Snowy Easter.

In the Palm House at Botanic Gardens last Saturday and the spring flowers were gorgeous.

 

The smell of the hyacinths was overpowering.

These perky looking daffodils were peeping out of the windows...

                               ...at these poor daffodils, heads down, outside in the freezing snow.

Then yesterday we went to Newcastle.

The sky was blue, it was sunny and people were walking on the beach.

Along the promenade and Slieve Donard was covered in snow.

Anyone for a dip in the Rock Pool?

Or maybe the Tropicana Warm Sea Pools!

We headed up into the mountains.

 I was surprised at all the snow still on the road and piled high either side.

It was very pretty.

There were signs of spring as we made our way back down...

                     ...and the cockerel on my old quilt is off to deliver the eggs for Easter.

Must be Spring!

Easter Monday, nest-building and eggs.

I'm knitting a rag nest from my Little Birds book. I'm following the pattern but somehow I've ended up with more stitches than it says. It looks o.k. though.

The tiny birds look happy enough with their nest, maybe because it's full of eggs!





This nest is made from a re-cycled egg box.

I've turned it into paper pulp and added some coconut fibre to it and some dried leaves, seed pods, sycamore and PVA glue. I pressed it over a bowl so I guess it's more of a bowl than a nest.




I've also made an egg from the paper pulp and added some strips of tissue paper to it, hoping it would make it smoother. I even rubbed it over with sandpaper but it's still bumpy.




I painted it with a bronze Lumiere paint. The writing is already printed on the tissue paper I glued on.

Then I added the spots of blue Lumiere using a cotton bud.




Do you think Mother bird will like her surprise egg?!

Easter Day.

Easter and there's a bit of thieving going on.


Red tulips I picked from the garden of a house waiting for demolition.
I felt sorry for them and thought I would appreciate them more than the car drivers whizzing by that don't see them. Then I felt bad for taking them and my Mum said she used to pinch a carrot from the farmer's field when she was a little girl and then feel guilty! We are no good at crime.



I made a Rice Krispie cake for Easter and there must be a thief around as the mini eggs keep disappearing!



Have to keep an eye on this Easter bonnet......



Happy Easter!

Easter Day.

Posh chocolate eggs - a present from my sister,Claudia. Don't they look lovely - almost too nice to open - but I can't resist!