To all of the denizens of these boards,
I would like to wish you a happy Easter, and a safe time over this Easter period.
This will be the first time in two years that I'll be going to an Easter service. I've missed it - the sense of shared joy, the organ resounding, thin light illuminating the stained glass panels, the sharing of Easter wishes... and then back home to tear into the brightly foiled Easter eggs of Belgian chocolate.
I keep wanting to re-initiate an Easter egg hunt. I may set it up next year, cunningly hiding delicious Easter eggs in the back garden, and inviting neighbours and friends and family to take part. I also thought about honouring the Ukrainian tradition of писанка (beeswax-inscribed Easter eggs) for next year, not having had anywhere near enough time to do that this year.
Please share thoughts, wishes, jokes, anecdotes, anything at all to do with Easter.
I'll include some Easter emoticons that I made a few years ago, and some by other emoticon creators as well.
Happy Easter
Countess, I have a collection of wooden Easter eggs that I put out every year.
Most are painted, one is wood burned, then painted.
One is even an actual egg that has been covered in some kind of cloth strips wound around it and glued on.
All are many decades old. Some from my MIL's estate - she was German.
My family keeps an eye out, but they are very hard to find.
I also have a collection of stone eggs - marble and such types.
These are the ones I usually get from family, because they are easier to source.
But I love the old wooden ones best.
Can you spot the cloth one?
Happy Easter one and all.
Thanks Countess.
I also have a couple of jewellery boxes done using pyrography.
Not mine, but very similar.
I do an easter egg hunt for the neighbours children every year.
I love the sound of church bells - Penelope Keith hosted a show on English Villages and featured church bells. (campanologists)
