This carrot cake recipe dates back to the 1920s. It’s so delicious, super moist and easy to make. Plus, the old-fashioned carrot cake is naturally dairy-free and gluten-free! Continue reading Old-Fashioned Carrot Cake With Naturally Colored Marzipan Carrots
‘In the language of the small child, “Easter is most as good as Christmas.” One readily accepts this conclusion after visiting the shops with their festive array of amusing toys and devices that delight the fancy of youngsters who still live in the land of Happy Delusion. Continue reading Edwardian Easter Toys
‘Have you bought your Easter hat? It is certainly time to select something, and it is getting along into the days when one cannot longer postpone the hat crisis. […] That she who buys her millinery now pays two prices for it may be true. But it is also true that the first millinery is worth double the price of the later offerings. […] There is a new look about the early season millinery that is never observed later on. Continue reading Edwardian Easter Hats
I love spring crafts with fresh moss! On our walk yesterday we gathered some moss to make these moss pots for Easter. Aren’t they beautiful? The moss looks so soft and velvety. Continue reading DIY Moss Pots – Spring Craft With Living Moss
These naturally green zebra cupcakes are so delicious. And isn’t the naturally green color amazing? The zebra cupcakes are naturally colored with curly kale. But they don’t taste of kale at all, they taste just like vanilla sponge cupcakes! 😀 Continue reading Kale Zebra Cupcakes – Naturally Green
‘If Easter Sunday is clear there will be an Easter parade up Fifth avenue that will outshine in brilliancy any previous Easter function of this kind ever beheld by fashionable New York-srs. For awhile, you will remember it was not considered good form to parade on Easter Sunday. But in the many revivals of the twentieth century the revival of the Easter parade is one of the most marked. To go to church is, of course, the correct thing; and to walk afterward is also accepted as in accord with the spirit of Easter; and what more certain than that every woman will wear her best hat and best gown out to enjoy the sunshine of the April day.’ (San Francisco Call, 1903)
‘The famous “Easter Parade” on Fifth avenue on the morning of Easter has degenerated in recent years. It is no longer the fashionable function it once was – at least not wholly so.
Continue reading Edwardian Easter Gowns For The Easter Parade
‘The smart Easter hostess will inaugurate a new idea in entertaining, one that she has copied from her English sisters over the sea. She will send out invitations for an Easter breakfast party, bidding her most congenial friends to assemble at her hospitable board. Continue reading An Edwardian Easter Party
Count down the days until Easter Sunday 2018 with 31 free Easter and spring craft tutorials and Easter recipes.
Each day a new Easter recipe, Easter craft or sewing tutorial, or a post about Victorian and Edwardian Easter customs and traditions awaits you on my blog. Stop by every day to open a new door and find out what’s behind it waiting for you! The Countdown starts on March 1 and ends on March 31. Continue reading Easter Countdown 2018 – 30 Free Easter Craft Tutorials And Recipes
A bunny-shaped pillow is so easy to sew and so cute! Make it for Easter, for your kids or as a gift. The DIY bunny pillow is as soft as a stuffed toy. 🙂 Continue reading DIY Bunny Pillow – Tutorial
I made speckled blue robin egg truffles with homemade natural blue food coloring! Aren’t they just so beautiful? 😀 And they taste as good as they look! Continue reading Naturally Colored Speckled Blue Robin Egg Truffles