EASTER IS ONLY A DAY AWAY!!!

Easter is so early this year it has gotten away from me.  I still have so much to do.  I have never missed an Easter Blog Post so here are some fast and easy ideas.  Starting with this simple fill a wire basket and top with Baby's Breathe centre piece.

Adorable way to decorated your chairs.  Easy cute napkin idea you can get instructions online.  Love these simple egg shell candles, you could use those as a centre piece too.  Very nice idea with a tray and whatever Easter things you might have, just add fresh flowers.

This is so cute.  It is in a bathroom, why not decorated everywhere!

As for baking, the top polka cake is adorable and very east if you don't do the dots inside.  I have made these birdie cupcakes many times, very simple and really adorable.  Even easier are these "Peeps" cupcakes.

My most impressive desserts were these two.  The cake was easy actually, just oreo cookie crumbs on robin's egg blue icing and you can find the eggs in the bulk food store.  The bunny cookies are always a big hit.

Whether you make it yourself or buy it, Easter is always such a pretty way to start off Spring.  Have a lovely day getting ready for tomorrow.

CONFESSIONS OF A COFFEE GEEK!!!!

I love coffee.  I love coffee machines.  The more unusual the better.  I picked up this little vintage Gaggia espresso/cappaccino machine at a thrift store a few years ago for $10.00.  It makes fabulous deep rich coffee which I am drinking as I write.

I have a K cup machine, a regular coffee maker, several French Presses but I must say my favourite is the old fashioned manual drip.  I just love how these are being created more and more uniquely .  It is so comforting watching the coffee brew as you pour the piping hot water over the grounds.

Recently I discover the SYPHON.  It is a Japanese lab experiment looking coffee brewer.  I just love this.  You light it with a bunson burner.  You fill the bowl with water, as it heats it rises through the tube into the cylinder, you add the coffee and gently stir.  Soon it is magically "vacuumed" down the tube into the bowl.  The only thing I am not sure of is the strength of the coffee.  I have watched it being made on youtube and they say it is a delicate "tea like" coffee.  I am Scandinavian and I love my coffee strong.  Very cool little contraption though.

I have never used one of these little Italian Espresso makers but they look very rustic.

Well, there you go, I am a confessed COFFEE GEEK and proud of it.. going to finish this delicious cup now and head out to Studio Atticus to make some Kimonos for my POP UP SHOP at Wincey Mills Market in Paris, Ontario on April 14th.  Have a lovely day and enjoy your coffee or tea.

NEW KIMONOS + A LOVELY STUDIO DAY!!!!

 First day of Spring yesterday and I spent a lovely day in the studio getting ready for my Wincey Mills POP UP SHOP in Paris, Ontario in April .

 It was a nice sunny day but still cold.  I needed a fire to warm up the studio.

 The Spring/Summer collection is coming along nicely.  Getting all of my little bits and pieces together to make my POP UP SHOP  for MY HIPPIE HEART   look nice and bohemian.  It is not as easy as when I do the outdoor shows, no tent to hang things from.

 Here are just a few of the Vintage Silk Sari Kimonos I finished.  I think the second, RUBY TUESDAY, is my favourite.

 Yesterday I worked on the Hand blocked Organic Cotton Kimonos.  Love this fabric, a bold grey.  I have not named it yet, any suggestions?

 This Indigo Shibori Kimono I made yesterday as we'll but this one if just for me!  I love the soft Organic Cotton and this pattern is gorgeous.