{HAPPY EASTER to all my readers in 163 countries!}

Wishing all of my readers in 163 countries a Happy Easter!

May you have a lovely family time with hopefully sunshine to brighten this day of new life even more.

A real egg with our Villeroy & Boch eggs, filled with Pelargonium Appleblossom Rosebud...

The egg is the symbol of New Life and therefore associated with Easter.

I'd like to show you also the beautiful architecture used at the Kruisherenhotel in Maastricht, The Netherlands - click: Kruisherenhotel Maastricht | Design between heaven and earth. In one of the Chateau hotels, St. Gerlach, the US President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush were staying when visiting the American War Cemetery Margraten. It truly is a Design between Heaven and Earth. 

Click here for seeing how they did design an EGG in their reception. 

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View of the egg from above but the previous link will give you a much better idea. 

We were fortunate for having toured this Camille Oostwegel Château Hotel, in October of 2005 with our Goddaughter Elvira, her parents (our dear friends) and even two Dublin, Georgia friends. Just wanted to share this with you as the symbol of the egg is relevant to this special Easter day.

Back to the Villeroy & Boch eggs..

Sheep as place card holder...

Pink Pelargonium Rosebuds now fill the egg vases from Villeroy & Boch.

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL OF YOU!

Related link:

12½ jaar L1 - Amerikaanse president in Limburg - video of President George W. Bush in Margraten, my province of birth Limburg. He visited the American War Cemetery of Margraten and was very complimentious towards the Staff at St. Gerlach. Video is Dutch but also in English, just listen...
President BUSH OP GERLACH | YouTube movie
Dutch Queen and Bush lead VE Day memorial | YouTube movie

{Our Organdy Beribboned, Porcelain and Brass Easter Eggs}

Several years ago I did make these yellow and salmon colored organdy ribbons for use at Easter time. Combining white and brown eggs, creates a perfect beribboned presentation. 

They make for a nice display on a special egg platter.

Daffodil season is long over so we could not fill our porcelain egg-vases from Villeroy & Boch, like we could in 2010.

Villeroy & Boch ←(click it) porcelain egg-vases that my sister Diny, ordered for me in The Netherlands after I found them in a magazine. They are so lovely when filled with fresh flowers!

Those egg-vases make a pretty table decoration during Easter Season.

Shown here on Le Jacquard Français table linen from France.

Just right click the hyperlink.

From Germany I got these Lacquered Brass window decorations in egg shapes.

For my German readers, click next: Jech Kunstgewerbe to go to Jech Kunstgewerbe's site, who is producing and selling them. 

Wishing all of you a very Happy Easter weekend!

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{Blogger Friend Dana Created These Lovely Ribbon Violets!}

Last year did yield quite an amount of wood violets but this year I only found 3... But look who came to the rescue? Very talented blogger friend Dana from Lambs and Ivy Designs, made me some perfect ribbon violets. Look here also on Pinterest: Lambs and Ivy Designs Ribbonwork

Dana made these perfect violets and I placed them in a heart shape. At the top I put the only three real violets that we had... 

The handmade violets together with the 3 real ones on a bed of moss in our garden...

THANKS A LOT DANA!  They are so perfect.

Here are my wood violets from last year, together with a lovely silver napkin/card holder from Giovanni Raspini, Italy. These lovely angels, cherubs are available at Spectrenoir.

A lovely mini-bouquet of violets tied together with an ombré silk ribbon...

They do match my cup and saucers from Royal Albert Provincial Flowers with the Purple Violet pattern.  

Available at Replacements Ltd. ←click it.

The demitasse spoons are Violet by Wallace (Sterling 1904) and also available at Replacements Ltd. Replacements Ltd. ←click it.

It is great for at least having those photos from last year's yield!

This pierced bon-bon spoon is also from Wallace in the Violet pattern.