Happy New Year

OK, so I know this isn't exactly a NY photo.  However, I did buy it at a local antique store's after-Christmas sale, so technically I'm looking ahead to Christmas 2011. 

My New Year's resolution is to simply blog more consistently! Even if it's a short one....like this. 

Easter Greetings

Easter will soon be here. I told my sons, ages 18, 22, & 26 and all still living at home, that there would be no Easter baskets this year. They were disappointed. So I capitulated and said I would make a single candy basket for the whole family to share. Here are a few of my Easter accouterments, which I barely remembered to pull out from under the bed earlier this week.

The ceramic duck with eggs vintage planter was made in Japan, probably in the 1940's. I'm guessing here. I found it among my mother's estate items.

The chick and the pig (both wearing party hats!) came from Mrs. Tiggywinkle's, a wonderful gift shop in downtown Riverside near the Mission Inn.