Happy Easter

Hello!

This is my first posting from our new home in Ohio. 

We finally got connected to Internet and WiFi yesterday.

It's gray, dark and overcast here in Ohio this Easter morning.  

I slept better last night and woke up this morning sort of concerned I only had one Easter decoration out in our new home. 

Hearth Room Fireplace

Now I should be easier on myself since we just moved in about two weeks ago and many of our boxes are not unpacked yet. 

Great Room Fireplace Mantel

Then as I was lying there in bed this morning I remembered we put the Christmas bins and other holiday bins in our lower level storage closet.  

Easy to get to. 

New Kitchen!

I jumped out of bed and went downstairs, opened the Easter bin and carried up in my arms as much of my Easter decorations as I could. 

Bunnies placed in the front windows.

I had fun going around our new home and setting up the decorations.  

It seems silly putting up the decorations on Easter when it will be over so soon now.  

But I may just leave them up this week to enjoy.

Well, at least the bunnies can stay out for Spring.  

Our flat screen TVs were hung the other day.

There is a long punch list of items still to be finish in our new home.

Gutters were installed two days ago.

The screened in porch and deck aren't finished yet either.

And we have to wait until the weather warms up to have the driveway and sidewalk poured.

Now our yard is all mud…thick horrible clay.

A different view for us out of our screened in porch slider.

We are having Easter dinner at my brother-in-law's house.  

And instead of having to drive 450 miles like we had to in the past now we have less than 10 miles to drive to his house. 

We love having our family close to us.  

That is our Easter blessing!

I hope you have a Blessed and Happy Easter! 

Happy Easter!

Good Morning and Happy Easter!

I woke up feeling better this morning and decided to make chocolate chip pancakes for our breakfast as a treat.  

I just caught Hubby before he made toast for himself.  

And I had a surprise too.  

Hubby bought me a beautiful bouquet of flowers and a Keurig travel mug.  

What a sweetie pie!

I recorded a public TV PBS Great Performances special on the Dave Clark 5 and watched it yesterday.  

It was wonderful.  

Now many of you are too young to know who this band was but in the Sixies there were three fantastic Bands that came out of Britain...the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Dave Clark 5.  

Boy did they have the hits…"Glad All Over", "Catch Me If You Can", "Because",  "Bits and Pieces" and "I Like It Like That" just to name a few. 

  

I actually saw them perform live in downtown Cleveland in 1965.  Unfortunately my seat was so far from the stage they looked like little matchstick people and the audience was screaming so loudly I could barely hear them singing. 

Source:  Pinerest Left to right:  Denis Payton, Dave Clark, Mike Smith, Rick Huxley and Lenny Davidson.

Their music was so fun and made you feel happy.  

Dave Clark was the drummer and the manager of the band. 

He was very good at it.  

I never realized that he wasn't the lead singer (Mike Smith was).

  

Source:  Pinerest    Mike Smith…lead singer of the Dave Clark 5

They were such sharp dressers and all were nice looking.  

Sadly three of the group have passed (Mike Smith, Denis Payton and Rick Huxley).  

At the end of the special they told how the band decided to stop touring in 1970 (but were still friends).  

Dave Clark went on to do other things one of which was a musical called "Time".  One of the singers in the musical was a man called Freddy Mercury and he was a good singer.  I thought his name was familiar but I couldn't place him.  

Turns out he was the lead singer of "Queen".  

Duh!  

One of my Hubby's (and mine) favorite songs is "Princes of the Universe" - the theme song for the Highlander TV series.  

On to crocheting...I'm working on the edging of my throw, "Pink Delight".  

Here's a peek!

Working on the edging

I'm kind of chatty this morning.  

Guess I am feeling better.  

The back is better no more muscle spasms at least.

The cold is still lingering a little. 

Source:  Pinerest

Have a lovey and blessed Easter my dear "peeps"!

Source:  Pinerest

Somebunny loves ya!

Our Easter Decorations

Come on in…

Easter is here at Teacup Lane!

It's overcast here so the photos aren't as clear as I would like.

My inspiration.
(Source:  Pinerest)

Remember my quick and easy homemade chalkboard project?

It's my second most popular post and you can read about it (here)!

I have so much fun changing my chalkboard sign with the Seasons and Holidays.

Usually I use chalkboard paint but this time I used colored chalk. 

Mrs. Ugly (Rabbit) is front and center.

I made the Easter banner over our fireplace mantel too out of card stock and scrapbooking papers. 

I printed the designs from my Photoshop application then glued everything together and added the ribbons.

I  also glued little strips of magnets on the backs.

I used to hang the banner on my steel front door but now we have a fiberglass front door.

Bummer!

  

I love bunnies.  

The more the merrier.

This one I purchased from Michaels last year.

  

Here's our little $8 chest in our foyer all decked out in its Easter finery. 

I gathered all my machine embroidery and appliquéd projects together along with my crocheted Easter eggs (pattern link here).

What should I do with this egg carton?

Paint it or decoupage it? 

Here's my machine embroidered bunny all surrounded by a cute fabric border.

What do you think of my Bunny Ears Easter Bonnet?  

Do you decorate for Easter in your home?

Thanks for visiting!

Jack Won!

No Foolin'

Jack, the adorable Goldendoodle puppy, won the 

"PureWow Pup of the Year" 

contest! 

 Jack's Mommy is Melissa from "The Inspired Room" blogging fame.

What a sweet mug!

I'm so glad Jack won.

Congratulations!!!

I finished crocheting my Easter Eggs...but only because I ran out of polyester filling.

I could of kept going - these are so easy to crochet.

(Click here for pattern and details)

Can you believe it's the first day of April?

 It was very windy here and warmer too - close to 60 degrees.

Hubby and I went to one of the local parks and walked a mile.

We're trying to get in shape for our tour - although we probably should have started earlier.  

Like five years ago...

LOL !

Hope you all had a great April Fool's Day.

Linking to:

I Love Fridays Link Party 

at 

Petals to Picots

Happy Easter!

Wishing you and your loved ones a most wonderful and joyous Easter!

I managed to crochet ten of these cute Easter eggs in time for Easter.

(Click here for pattern and details)

Hubby and I are enjoying the TV Series "The Bible" on cable's History channel.

And yesterday I recorded "The Ten Commandments" with Charlton Heston as Moses.

I remember my Mother taking my brothers and me to see this movie in 1956 when I was ten years old.

I haven't seen this movie in ages so I'm looking forward to watching it again after all these years.

Thanks for visiting me!

Eggs R Us

These are so much fun to crochet!

Easy, pleasy!

Eggs R Us...

ah...

Eggs R Me!

The 4th egg...

Fifth one...

And my sixth...

of course, I have to have a RED one!

Six eggs so far all lined up...

Today I hope to add more colors to the group.

Happy Easter to you and your loved ones.

Go (here) for link to free pattern and more details.

Flower Garden Doily & English History

I finished my Grandmother's Flower Garden Potholder pattern last night. 

 I didn't make it as a two-sided potholder. 

You can read more details regarding this project (here) at Ravelry.

I revised the edging to a round of green single crochet, another round of cream single crochet and a final round of *single crochet in next stitch, spiked double crochet into the next stitch's previous round* repeat from * to * around in green.

I'm using it as either a doily or a dishcloth.

You can purchase the pattern (here).

Today we visited our local Barnes and Nobles bookstore to pick up some current guide books for Great Britain and London for our Grand Circle Tour of England/Wales/Scotland next month.

The Michelin London book is from 1997 when Hubby took his first and only solo trip to Europe.

We have some free time in London so we're making a list of our must sees. 

I love English History.  

My love of English History started at an early age when I read a book in my Mother's bookcase entitled, "Forever Amber" by Kathleen Winsor.    It's still one of my most favorite historical romance novels.  It's set in 17th Century England during the reign of Charles II.  "Forever Amber" tells the story of orphaned Amber St. Clare, who makes her way up through the ranks of 17th century English society by sleeping with and/or marrying successively richer and more important men, while keeping her love for the man she could never have, Bruce Carlton.  The novel includes portrayals of Restoration fashion, politics, and public disasters, including the plague and the Great Fire of London.  I was sad to learn that the publishers edited the fifth draft of Ms. Winsor's book down to one-fifth of its original size to its published size of 972 pages.   I would have loved to read all of it before it was edited down.  Believe it or not, it was the best-selling US novel of the 1940s.  It was also responsible for popularizing "Amber" as a given name for girls in the 20th century.  And to this day it's still my favorite name for a girl.    

I just finished reading "Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett and last night I started its sequel, "World Without End".  Both of Mr. Follett's historical English novels have been made into TV mini-series.   There are excellent reviews for the first TV mini-series but many reviewers felt the second TV mini-series didn't follow Mr. Follett's sequel book at all.  I have seen both TV mini-series but can't pass judgement on the second one until I finish the novel.     

Anyways... Hubby bought the book "British History for DUMMIES" because he doesn't read as many any historical English novels like I do and needs a crash course.    

This book is so funny and presents its topic in an easy-to-read manner.

And, of course, we needed a more serious look at British History too. 

Our packing for our trip across the pond is almost done.

And we still have a few weeks before we leave.

So we are in good shape.

Just getting a little more excited as the time goes by.

Yesterday I updated our chalkboard sign for Easter.

That's it for Easter decorations here.

Where's Spring?

BUNCO is done. 

 It was a success - all the gals had a fun time. 

 Unfortunately as host I didn't have a chance to take any photos with the food set up on the kitchen island but I did take some pics of the tables set up in the family rooms prior to the arrival of the gang.

My flowers were the center piece on the kitchen island.

I bought a new pink plastic table cloth for the island too and set some china bunnies around the flowers.

It looked really pretty.

I managed to take a few photos of the tables set up before the gals arrived.

I moved two of the chairs back into the corners of the family room to make room for the two card tables.

Today we got up early and drove to the RV dealership to pick up our travel van (it was in for some repairs that were still under warranty).  

It was cold this morning - only 29 degrees - and trying to snow - luckily there was just some very light snowflakes in the air.  

This evening we have a lovely fire going.

See how neat my crochet area is?

I put all the yarn and stuff away upstairs for BUNCO and haven't bought it back down yet.

I'm enjoying it all clean and neat without my piles of mess all around me.

Isn't it pretty in our family room and kitchen with the sun shining through the french doors?

This is one of the appetizers I made (recipe here) - Bacon-Wrapped Li'l Smokies in a Brown Sugar and Maple Glaze.   They are ready to go into the oven to bake and then into the crock pot to keep warm.  

I also made this one (here) - Sausage & Cream Cheese Crescents. 

I found both of these delicious recipes on Pinterest.   

The gals don't eat much and I had too much food left over...again.  

Our trees have buds on them.  

I sure wish it would warm up.

Think SPRING!