Easter eggs

The kids are home for their Easter break. Given a choice they would love to be in school! Yes, school!!! While it makes me proud that they enjoy learning and having fun with their friends it also means that staying at home is a bore..ahem!! so, mom has to get her act together...:D

On Monday they wanted to get the Easter eggs ready! While we do not have an Easter egg hunt, we love dotting up our home with painted eggs. The ready kits that come along with paints and gloves is a neat idea.What you then need are old rugs, newspapers, hot water, boiled eggs(they should still be hot) and you are ready to go!!

The kids did a fantastic job with the eggs!
Happy Easter in advance my lovelies!!!

Easter Tree

In Deutschland we have Easter trees. You can make your own by hanging easter eggs on dried twigs, fresh flowers or a potted plant. The eggs can be either plastic, wood or porcelain, the latter being expensive. You get painted ones or better still, paint them yourself. If you happen to drive around villages in Germany at this time of the year, you will see that every house has an easter tree in the yard too. I love this concept very much. I bought my own painted wooden eggs, some dried twigs and made our own tiny tree.

     What does your day look like? Do you have any Easter tradition in your part of the world? Do link up your today. We would love to visit you.

Easter eggs the German way..

I love the spirit of Easter in Deutschland. The easter bunnies, colored eggs, easter tree(will show you mine in the next post). Feels a bit like Christmas. While you do get painted easter eggs in the markets, it is more fun to paint them at home. With the fun, there is a whole lot of mess to clear up, not to forget the broken eggs in the process!!!!

Over the weekend, I picked up paints which come as a ready kit exclusively for painting eggs. Available at any supermarket or hobby store, they come with colors, plastic gloves and foil for the shine. Instructions were in English too, so it wasn't a problem at all to get going. The children in their eagerness to paint, kept breaking the shells. Luckily the eggs need to be boiled, hence the damage was less. 

Doesn't it make for a pretty centre piece for the coffee table? Spring and Easter, I like the combination of both. Pretty flowers and easter eggs!!! 

The end of today, the beginning of tomorrow!!!

I stumbled upon this great blog called Communal Global!! This is a fabulous blog of women from all over the world who post their lives in photos. I simply fell in love with this blog with beautiful pictures. The best part is they are having a contest with the theme "Todays from all over the world!!!" All you need to do is take a photo of your today and link up with them on your site!!!

It is past midnight, my today has ended and tomorrow begun!!! Here is my today's photo....

We are celebrating our First Easter here in Germany!!. These eggs were painted by my children Mark and Anna. I chose to fill it TODAY with chocolate eggs and bow it to keep the basket ready for Easter Sunday!!!!

If you have a photo, you would like to enter, please head over to Communal Global and sign up!!! The contest ends on Monday!! Thank you ladies for hosting this wonderful contest and making my TODAY!!

Easter Eggs!!

As promised, the centrepiece for Easter is ready!!!! Here is how it looks :

The wreath made of twigs and twine were purchased. Also this coloured coir for the centre. All I had to do was boil the eggs and paint them. The nest was ready in no time!!!
Also pictured below are Easter Bunnies made by Anna at school.

Looks like we have got into the Spirit of Easter!!!!

Easter Basket!!!

This will be our first Easter here at Lohr!!!  Easter in India is generally not celebrated on a grand scale like X'mas. No goodies, decorations, of late Easter eggs have come into the picture. Easter is more to do with church services beginning from Maundy Thursday to Easter Sunday!! As kids, Easter also was associated with the culmination of annual exams in school.

                  What has struck me here in Lohr is, that, just like Christmas, people get into the festive mood and decorate lovely decorations around town and in their homes. Germans are very very creative and you can go gaga over the stuff they make. To also make it easier, you have plenty of hobby stores around towns. One can spend hours together in such stores, looking and admiring and then wondering whether you have the creative streak in you.

The walks around town got me too into the festive mood. I thought I would start with something small, the idea of eggs in a basket seemed quite right. I already had a cane basket. All I needed were a few eggs and some grass for the perfect basket. During my visit to OBI on saturday I spotted plastic eggs on sale. A pack of 10 eggs costed 3 euro. With the eggs purchased, I got some look alike grass from E-centre.

            Palm Sunday saw me and the kids painting the eggs with childlike glee and here is the result!!!

I already had fevicryl acrylic and metalic paints with me. We used a combination of both. Boiled eggs too can be painted in a similar fashion. Right now this basket sits on my coffee table. I have in mind an Easter centrepiece for the table. Once done, it will follow in my next post.
Till Then,
With Love from Lohr.