Easter!

Growing up we always made an Easter tree, Mum would take us for a walk and we'd find a spidery branch to drag home and paint or decorate, then she'd stand it in a large vase and we would decorate it with ribbons, bows, eggs, anything really. 

It's things like that from childhood you end up remembering so now I'm a mother I've started to do it with my girls, plus it's an excuse to make ceramic eggs!!

This is the start of this years, here is some of the eggs I made and this is before the kids have had a go at it. We found a large brach and sprayed it with some left over gold paint, when we tried to stand it my vase it kept toppling to one side so I decided to break it down into a few shorted branches. 

All finished! It's a little busier than I would have made it, but the kids are thrilled and it does bring some much needed spring cheer to our living room. 

Now the sales bit....

I have added some eggs to my easy shop, Cariad Clay just in case you want to make your own Easter tree...

Our Easter Tree

When I was little we used to have an Easter tree, Mum would take us for a walk in the woods and we'd get some thin tree branches which she would put in a vase and hang little things off, it was lovely and always looked so pretty :)

This year I decided I'd do the same with my girls :)

So here is ours 

I thought we'd start small :)

we had a lovely craft day and made the little ceramic hanging eggs :)

I rolled out the clay and let the kids loose with the stamps :)
they loved it! and then we used our little egg cutter to cut them out

I should have got more organised and made some for my shop :( 

definitely next year!

I also found some pretty little decorations from etsy 

These sweet little flowers were crocheted by the talented Twinkknits 

These cute little paper birds are all the way from America from Up the attic stairs

The children are thrilled with the tree

I've told them the Easter Bunny will be really happy with it and leave them special eggs :)

Next year we'll go a bit bigger :)

But maybe not this big :)

This beautiful tree is from Germany where the tradition originated, find out more about this tree and the tradition in this lovely blog

Buttons Buttons Buttons

I love Buttons :)

I have a huge tin and I hoard them in it :)

So it was inevitable that I made Ceramic Buttons!

And here they are

These were my first ever buttons and I loved them :)
but they were an absolute pig to make :(

So I decided to go bigger :)

So my Big Statement Buttons were born!
and if I do say so myself they are so pretty :)

I have sold some in My shop and they have gone to new homes maybe to be hoarded by someone else :)

But some have already been Re-born on Etsy

This Beautiful Shawl was made by the very talented Margaret over at MolliMade

Three Buttons have been turned into Striking chunky necklaces by the talented KariOriginal

I love them all and am really tempted to buy one back :)

This bright and summery Bag was made by Joy at Perfect Little Purses