spring color
I cut some beautiful apple branches at my friend’s house for Easter. Of course, before I put them inside and decorated them with eggs I had to take some photos.
Hopefully they don’t blow open today and will last through the weekend.
Simple Branches
A few flowering quince with some painted eggs looks sweet for Easter.
Speckled Eggs
Easter is almost here. I love decorating for it with all the spring bits that are coming to life. The great spring mash-up where all the colors and flowers go together and are beautiful!
I bought a dozen quail eggs from a local farm that my beloved produce store carries, the speckles are wonderful and celebrate the season. I’ll decorate eggs with my son just before Easter, but I do love decorating with and photographing bare eggs, like these previous years.
Doing flowers or any other kind of decorating is an expression of you and doesn’t have to be hard. Use what you have, a little goes a long way and experiment.
Some Easter decor from other years, Kashmir eggs, egg cups, or floral rings.
Easter eggs
Last year, I was all about bare eggs. Spring is a time of color and these Kashmir eggs are all about that.
A few chocolates go a long way in this simple little basket of baby tears with a few different springs of flowers tucked in. Perfect for a toddler or on your table.
I almost like the messy bits behind-the-scenes more. I always seem to take photos of them.
More spring flowers and Easter things too...
Little garden bits in some French egg cups. We lugged these egg cups across France along with antiques (mostly enamelware) for my mom on a family trip when I was a teenager. Somehow, they've ended up in my cupboard.
I talked before about using what you have in the garden, even dandelions. Simple really is prettiest and easy to do.
I love these bare, speckled eggs now. But, we'll dye and decorate eggs when it gets close to Easter. It's a very magical time for those who believe in the Easter bunny.
All florals, styling and photography by Silvanie Farmar Bowers
Easter Eggs
More non-dyed, bare, in the buff eggs. I love the soft, natural colors of the eggs themselves with bright spring flowers.
I always love the mix of colors during spring, and a little can go a long way. This is only two stems of lilac, a few crabapple branches, a few freesia, a handful of forget-me-not stems and a few snips of viola and maiden hair fern from pots on my front porch. Most people have more things to cut outside than they think. Mix it up, even pulling up a dandelion or two and putting them in a small bowl or terra-cotta pot with some eggs around is sweet.
Time to clean up...
All flowers, styling and photography by Silvanie Farmar Bowers.
p e t a l s
Soft crabapple petals.
Bare Eggs
These eggs are about as simple as it gets. I had grand ideas about using the viola I pressed in the antique colors I've been obsessing over the last few weeks. But, after getting dozens and dozens of fresh eggs from my sister's chickens, I decided I wanted to look at the bare eggs. All of the eggshell variations are so beautiful just the way they are. Soft, buff, speckled, green and brown.
All flowers, styling and photography by Silvanie Farmar Bowers