There are no big family dinner plans for Easter this year, and I was going to be traveling a bit, as was my husband. So I hadn’t thought about decorating.
Then, Beth gifted me these pink crystals for my chandy, and it inspired a redo for spring.
The dining room chairs were still wrapped in pink and roses from valentines, and I debated washing them and changing out the flowers to daffodils. But no, I kept it simple and left them as is. The shiny rose tint can carry over til spring fades away to summer.
They are just fine as is, and as I said, I kept it simple. I was doing a deep and deeply needed spring cleaning, putting away all the other lingering holiday stuff, like the hearts everywhere and some twinkle lights over the windows.
After Christmas, I leave white lights over my curtain rods to pep me up on those long, dark, winter nights and add some sparkle to the cottage. With longer days here now, those could come down.
Along with all the dust they’d accumulated.
After cleaning, I switched out hearts for birds, bunnies, and eggs on the hutch.
While still using the same background trays, runner, and rose patterned china.
This hutch has been such fun to redo for the seasons. I’d bought it at Juju years before I was a vendor there, from a guy who I didn’t know at the time, but is a good friend now. So I love the piece even more, knowing that I got it from a friend.
It has two surfaces to display on plus two small, glass door cabinets all backed with beveled mirrors..
The handles on the doors are ideal to hang a banner from.
On the dining table, I added an egg wreath from Goodwill. Now, typically that thrift shop’s prices have gotten so high that you’ll often see an original store’s price tag on the bottom of something and it’s lower than the Goodwill price.
But you never know.
So I keep up the hunt and sometimes I find an affordable treasure. This one was $4 because the color of the tag matched that day’s half off special.
Not much changed at the cocoa station. It was de-hearted from remnants of Valentine’s Day and some jelly beans were poured into the candy machine.
It has since been refilled because I love jelly beans.
I set out a couple chicks, postcards, and was done.
That was it, nothing in the rest of t home. Although, with each day getting nicer and nicer, I think it’s time to bring in armloads of flowering branches and set those out. And I really should take down the velvet drapes and hang the soft floral ones.
Oh well, there is only so much time in a day. I’ll enjoy the stuff I did have time for, especially since I hadn’t planned on doing any of it.
It’s a bonus.
