Easter Dinner

Easter Dinner Table

The turquoise "Le Creuset" baking dish in the foreground is 43 years old and 

has been well used. The pink dishes are vintage "pyrex"

Dessert !
Lemon meringue seems appropriate for spring to me. I also made Banana Cream .





Our favorite appetizer

Hot Swiss Almond Dip & fresh veggies!

RECIPE

SWISS ALMOND DIP

8 ounces cream cheese 

1/2 cup miracle whip

1/2 cup swiss cheese, grated

 2 teaspoons finely chopped chives(or green onions)

1/4 cup sliced toasted almonds

Mix and put in ovenproof dish

Bake at 350 degrees until bubbly and lightly browned on top

An earlier simple easter Table

Simple Easter


I hope you all had a lovely Easter with family and friends.

Easter Decorating

table favor baskets for Easter

Finished my table favors for Easter dinner and thought I would share.  
Pictures of the entire table will come later.

Putting it all together ...ruffled cupcake liners and pink inserts,
 a little ribbon, colored eggs and candy.
 I found the stickers that I put on the eggs at Michaels. 
The name tags were made with pages app.
(Some of the pictures make it look Like the color is  coral
 but it was just the lighting . Everything is pink, turquoise and white)

The handles are lollipop sticks bent to shape and glued between the folds of the insert.

I must have a little too much time on my hands as I even matched the 

candies to my color scheme.

 A few photos from a previous easter celebration.

Easter Table

Easter place setting

Easter Basket

HAPPY EASTER!

Organize and Label!

Organized and labelled!

I finally got to fixing up my tv cabinet.  I know that I am in the dark ages with my cd player and photos not on disc but I still like the paper copies and I like my cd player that holds 5 cd's at once. I also still have a vcr and dvd player because of all the old movies I have for my grandkids.

Here is my old cabinet. The little sony TV finally gave out and even though I didn't care about a large screen the sellers seemed to encourage us to buy one by charging less for it than the smaller one so you think "might as well".

The problem was what to do about losing all that storage so I went on the hunt for a replacement cabinet. I wanted white and found there were not many out there. We settled on one from Ikea as it was the right size and price. The putting together took a lot of time but was worth it.

I didn't take a before picture so here is one I cropped from a Christmas photo, anyway, here it is loaded up with stuff and looking kind of messy!

Below is the "finished product" (for now anyway)

I made the labels with the "pages" application. It is so easy to do just using shapes the color and font choices are endless!  Then  just print on a large avery sticker sheet and cut out. (too bad I couldn't seem to take a picture without glare on the glass)

Loving labels!

We replaced the hardware on the cabinet with some glass knobs found at a local antique store. The turquoise boxes and albums are from the Martha Stewart office collection at Staples. The black boxes were from super Store.

I found this dish at Value Village. It was only $4 and I almost didn't buy it. So glad I did! It is perfect for setting the controls in.

I also was happy to find this little vintage lamp with the perfect color of shade.

Happy with how it turned out. If you have a printer and the pages app you will find it easy to label and organize anything. Try it!