Celebrating Easter with Snoopy

by Helen Kain | Apr 14, 2022 | Blue, Easter, Recent, Spring Tablescapes, White, Yellow

It’s a soft, misty morning here in the South Downs, UK, where Glenn and I are based for the next few days. We arrived in England a little over a week ago and have already clocked several hundred miles in what has to be the worst rental car we’ve...

Sugar Transfer Cookies

by Helen Kain | Mar 28, 2022 | Cookies & Bars, Desserts, Easter, Edited in Lightroom, Holiday, Spring Recipes

Buttery, crisp sugar cookies are welcome at any time of year. Fail-safe and endlessly adaptable, here they are decorated with Royal icing before edible transfer paper adds the final festive touch.     Print clock clock iconcutlery cutlery iconflag flag...

It’s a Full Nest for Easter

by Helen Kain | Mar 28, 2022 | Blue, Easter, Recent, Spring Tablescapes, White, Yellow

Easter is right around the corner, and the bunnies in this house can’t wait. We have hustled up a batch of sugar cookies to host our Full Nest of feathered friends.   The soft, toasty shade of the linen runner and napkins encouraged a woodsy theme. Martillo...

Floral Meadow for Easter

by Helen Kain | Apr 3, 2021 | Easter, Green, Pink and Red, Purple, Spring Tablescapes, White, Yellow

Easter is such a hopeful holiday. While I love Christmas, it marks the beginning of winter and many months of darkness. Easter, however, is the beginning of warmer and longer days (at least for us Northern Hemisphere dwellers). You can almost feel the world coming to...

A Little Bird Tells Me It’s Officially Spring!

by Helen Kain | Mar 20, 2021 | Blue, Easter, Spring Tablescapes, White

Chirp, chirp! It’s time to start preparing our nests.  Every spring, it’s the same. She starts nagging me to redecorate as soon as the weather warms up. What’s wrong with last year’s nest? It’s so … tatty … she...

Is it Spring, yet?

by Helen Kain | Mar 2, 2021 | Easter, Featured, Green, Spring Tablescapes, White

Hi there! It’s Maxcera Bunny speaking. Is it time? Can we come out yet? It’s still a bit chilly, but green shoots are popping up, and I’m hopping to go. I see a basket of flowers to nibble on, and hey – what are these things?  Little...