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{Garden, Home and Party} Happy Easter – welcome spring

18 Friday Apr 2014

Posted by Karen B. in Dessert, Easter, Entertaining, Food, Holiday/Seasonal cooking, Uncategorized

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I sure hope my friends that have experienced the coldest winter in recent memory, are finally catching a glimpse of spring.

Garden, Home and Party: Easter 2014

I’m hosting Easter this year for our west coast family members and I thought I’d share some of the inspiration and ideas I’m using for our celebration.

I’m finalizing the menu (the ham has been a staple to the meal for some weeks, but I have flip flopped on the sides).  Here are a few of the items that I’ll fix.  Sweet Sarah will prefer the fingerling potatoes I’m preparing (much healthier), but I know a couple of family members that will enjoy scalloped potatoes.  My office gives Honey Baked gift cards to each of us at Christmas.  Honey Baked stores, which are plentiful in California, not so much elsewhere in the U.S., are known for their honey glazed hams.  It will make my day of food prep pretty easy to have the ham cooked and ready.  I think I’ll prepare some deviled eggs, a slaw salad that Sarah introduced me to, a few appetizers, cookies for dessert and that should be plenty.

Garden, Home and Party: Easter 2014

Table setting is the icing on the cake for me.  I look for any excuse to create a pretty table.  Here are some ideas I’m contemplating compliments of the creative bloggers I visit regularly. {Thank you!}  I like the idea of potted bulbs (preferably in bloom) and nests with eggs.  Trader Joe’s has been carrying daffodils, hyacinths and tulips in little pots.  The place mats are really cool and I believe they’re paper.  I may not be able to find these but I have a collection of Royal Doulton Beatrix Potter rabbits that I can scatter among the nests and flower pots.

Garden, Home and Party: Easter 2014

Garden, Home and Party: Easter

Garden, Home and Party: Easter 2014

Garden, Home and Party: Easter 2014

The happy faces on these pansies make simple eggs look festive.

Garden, Home and Party: Easter 2014

If it’s a pretty day we’ll sit outside for appetizers so I’ll create an Easter basket similar to what I did last year.  I used an assortment of color-pack sized flowers and they lasted for most of the early part of summer before fading.

Garden, Home and Party: Easter 2014

Garden, Home and Party: Easter 2014

I’ve ordered these tags from Everyday Occasions and will bake Jenny Steffens Hobick’s cookies with buttery icing.  Recipe HERE.  I’ll plate some and send each person home with a cookie or two wrapped like this.  Jenny’s blog is filled with great recipes and ideas for setting the table.  She provides detailed instructions for each recipe, and the best part?  She has an online store filled with fun items for home and entertaining.

Garden, Home and Party: Easter 2014

Garden, Home and Party: Easter 2014

 I hope my cookies turn out as well as Jenny’s.  Aren’t the baby chicks cute?

Garden, Home and Party: Easter 2014

So tell me, what are you doing this Easter?

Garden, Home and Party: Easter 2014

 

{GHP} Easter Greetings from Austin

31 Sunday Mar 2013

Posted by Karen B. in Easter, Family, Holidays

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Hi Friends,

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I’m enjoying Easter with our oldest son, his lovely wife and our darling granddaughter.  Spring has sprung in Austin.

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I hope you’re enjoying warm weather and all of the excitement and joy of spring.

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I’ll be back on Wednesday, I look forward to seeing you then.

Happy Easter & Happy Spring ♥

{GHP} Happy Easter

05 Thursday Apr 2012

Posted by Karen B. in Entertaining, Family, Food, Holiday/Seasonal cooking

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Happy 2 Days before Easter!  ♥  Happy Spring!

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When our kids were young we were always the house where Easter dinner was held.  We’d plan an Easter-egg hunt in the morning followed by a game of Bocci Ball for the group and a feast that included Honey Baked Ham, scalloped potatoes or potato salad, fresh fruit bowl, chocolate dipped strawberries, coconut cupcakes and a hollow bunny for each and every guest.

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Now that half of our family lives in Austin we celebrate with soon-to-be in-laws and our youngest son and his lovely fiance.

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What are your plans this Sunday?  I wish you a day willed with spring sunshine, good food and the love of your family and friends.

Happy Easter

22 Friday Apr 2011

Posted by Karen B. in Holiday/Seasonal cooking

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Easter

Image via Martha Stewart

And Spring arose on the garden fair,


Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;

Image via 5th & State

And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast

rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

—Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Keep a little Springtime in your heart.  Happy Easter.

 

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