We don't do much to celebrate Easter. I'm a recovering Protestant and Jeff is Jewish. The Easter bunny came to our house last night and hid some eggs, and that's the extent of our holiday celebration.
We do appreciate the fact that it's a holiday for everyone else, though. You know how sometimes you want the world to stop so that you can get stuff done? That's what Easter is for us. I have no social or work commitments today, so I'm practicing my form of relaxation: I'm using the day to finish a number of projects.
Today I finished the pinecone wreath that I started last fall. Finally some pinecones are starting to appear in the yard and today I collected enough to finish it. I don't know if the pinecones are appearing because the snow is melting and they are starting to surface or because it's been windy again and they are falling down. Whatever the reason, I'm just happy that I found them!
I found something else in the yard today - little crocuses poking through the cold winter ground!
This is particularly exciting because the rest of our yard looks like this:
To celebrate the start of spring, Jeff took down our Christmas tree. We keep it outside on the deck all winter in the tree stand. It's nice to look at, and it's such a shame to throw out a tree after just a few weeks of having it up! We prefer to keep it up all winter.
I'm also working on a painting project to make a mirror we hung in the kitchen look colorful and distressed. I'll show it to you when I finish!
And here is a quick look at the lavender-scented rice pillow I made this morning. I used Blair's "recipe" for it. I had scented the rice a while ago and just needed to sit down at the sewing machine to make the pillow case for it. I got this fabric in the clearance section at JoAnn Fabrics for $1 a yard and I just love it.
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