Zooming in With Easter Greetings!

Hello, everyone! How has April been treating you? Things here have been fine although I do wish the sun would stop hiding behind the clouds and the days would warm up! (It's dropping down to 30° tonight!). This will be a quick post as I just wanted to pop in and wish you a Happy Easter. Will you be traveling or hosting Easter dinner? Have you stitched anything bunny-related lately? How about any spring stitching?

I recently began a larger spring piece which I hope to share with you next month, but I did manage to stitch yet another bunny. (I told you, I'm addicted to stitching those fluffy little creatures!). This sweet finish, "Carrot Express" by Needle Treasures Nook will be an Easter gift for my grandson who adores cars and bunnies (and dogs, and cats, and birds, and cheetahs, and pandas, and just about any kind of animal known to mankind--ha ha!). I used 40 ct. soft ivory Newcastle linen and made several changes to the colors. The bunny is stitched in the suggested colors, as is the steering wheel, but everything else was changed. I stitched the car wheels in DMC 844, the greenery in DMC 320, and the carrot car in Weeks Dye Works "Carrot" (of course :). I also left off the charted border and turned this into an oval finish. Isn't it sweet? I hope Mister B likes his new Easter decoration!

"Carrot Express" will soon be zooming to its new home with my grandson!

I finally managed to get my Easter stitching on display. Because I have so many small finishes for the season, I like to divide them by color and display them that way. This year, the pink pieces are in my dough bowl sitting on a little table at the end of my kitchen. The slate blue pieces are in a tiered tray on the center of my table. The green pieces are in my corner cupboard. And the biggest, cheeriest display is this yellow and aqua blue one on my kitchen side table. That is the only display I took photographs of so I'll share those with you today. Just love how it brightens up my kitchen day after day! Do you have a favorite? Mine is the sheep pulling the robin as he perches on his bright blue eggs (in the front left of the photo). 

Such a cheery display on my kitchen side table! The aqua and yellow certainly make me smile.

 

Most of these are by With Thy Needle and Thread. The one on the bunny chair is by Tiny Modernist, the one in the back middle is by La-D-Da, and the basket of flowers on the middle left is by Prairie Schooler.

The little chick in the front is a freebie by La Comtesse & Le Point de Croix which you can find right here. The bird on the eggs (on the right) can be found in the Spring 2020 issue of "Punch Needle and Primitive Stitching" magazine, and the Easter chick (in the far back right) is an old Lizzie Kate chart. All the rest are designs by With Thy Needle and Thread.

I recently received this sweet Easter card from my friend, June, in England. Isn't that bunny darling wearing her flower crown? I'm quite sure this design is from one of the British cross stitch magazines.

Thank you, dear June, for this adorable bunny card--I love it!

I also want to share the collection of vintage Easter postcards that belonged to my husband's paternal grandfather. I found them in the family home in Naples, Florida and just happened to bring them home with me back in 2022 when we were renting out that house on Airbnb. Thank goodness I did, because a few months later that same house was flooded by Hurricane Ian's storm surge and the contents were basically destroyed. I'm so glad I saved these beautiful cards from sure destruction. They were all sent to my husband's grandfather in the early 1900s--most are dated 1911-1916. Aren't they special?

My husband's grandfather's vintage Easter postcard collection dating from the early 1900s.

Below are two of my favorites... Very different themes, but both so bright and vibrant. 

I'm amazed at how lovely the artwork and colors remain after more than 100 years!

 

 

And speaking of old things... I came across this wonderful Easter morning photo from 1960. Shown are my little brother (who was three) and five-year-old Carol checking out what the Easter bunny had delivered. I just love my smocked dress (surely made by my maternal grandmother), my little bonnet, and the sweet white gloves. Easter in the mid-20th century--don't you love it?

I hope the sun shines for your Easter weekend and that your day is filled with lots of love and joyful family traditions. My little grandson, Mister B, is so hoping that the Easter bunny will leave him a trail of jelly beans to help him find his Easter basket like he remembers from last year. I'm also going to be helping him make our traditional bunny cake. Four (almost five!) is such a fun age! I just love watching him anticipate the family traditions that the various holidays bring. Thank you for stopping in today--and, as always, I truly appreciate each and every comment! Take care now my friends. Bye for now...