Eastertime is almost here! I can almost taste the candyfloss melting on my tongue, and those speckled
chocolate robin’s eggs. I’m busy getting everything ready for our annual Easter Egg Hunt and Garden
Party on Sunday, and remembering what a blast we had last year. It was an insane cavalcade of
pastel frocks, sugared-up children, and eggs: devilled, dyed, candy-stuffed and confetti-filled.

Corinne + Francesca = best bunny girls ever.

Miss Valerie, resplendent in purple and extravagantly top-hatted.

Faith + I being sweet by the tinker trailer. She just had a little baby boy!
He’s too little for Easter egg hunts this year, I reckon – but next year, maybe!

Chesley + Frannie lookin’ fine as can be.

Miss Amelia, always pretty as a picture.

Dawn wearing a gorgeous embroidered collar by Chromium Dumb Belle

My fairy-godson Sascha attacks his first piñata! Kill the bunny!

Adelle-Rose gets cascaroned!

Wee widgets with parasols – Wolfie and her best friend Madeline.

Watermelon is delicious!

Isadora, Molly Karen and Elliott, trio of adorableness.

My favorite sister Penny + Mattie – Penny made the most luscious lemon-drop cake ever!

Flip and Wolfie made these beautiful art eggs – I picked the octopus and the deer to treasure always.

Colin’s mama Becky made this wonderful lambie cake, which Canon won in the cake walk.

He was so proud of it, he wanted to take it to school for show and tell!

Katinka Pinka and her bitty sweet lemondrop of a nephew!

Steve + Emily, looking dandy-fine in their Easter Sunday best.

Two beautiful Sarahs – Sarah Marie + Sarahfina

My grampa was there, in fine fettle. I wish he could be here this year.
The headphones and radio-looking-thing are actually his preferred choice
of hearing-aid. He likes it, and it works – but people always think he’s listening
to music. I had to learn the Serbian word for hearing-aid when I was there,
because everyone was curious about them. The word is: slušni aparat

My dear papa played old tyme tunes on his banjo.

Sienna serenaded us on the ukulele.

This is what happens to Maddy when she eats a pile of sugar – she becomes a lightning-footed fairy!

She ran circles around that sycamore for about half an hour, solid. Just a blur in a bright dress!
☆♥ More photos from last year can be found here:Easter 2010 set
☆♥ Miss Shanna also has some sweet ones: Easter Afternoon at Angeliska’s
☆♥ Easter in New Orleans
☆♥ Chemists Cauterize, Chill Cadbury Cremes from Neatorama
☆♥ Cadbury Egg inside chocolate cupcake
☆♥ Dressed Up For Easter – Vogue asked designers to re-imagine the Easter egg.
☆♥ Children scared shitless of the Easter Bunny thanks, Boing Boing!
And Easterness of yore:
☆♥ Magic Windows #11
☆♥ Sketchy Bunnies!
☆♥ Bunnytown
☆♥ Easter Egg Hunt!