Spring Trees

Finding a budding branch to use as our Spring tree still seems daunting so I’ve been looking for something in stores. We hadn’t found any before the Spring brunch we had when my niece was visiting on St. Patrick’s Day. I had made some bunnies I wanted to hang as decorations and give as favors so I started looking for pussy willows and in the third supermarket we checked we finally found some!

This weekend on our third trip to Target to search for trees we found two different small ones so we bought them both. The wooden one seemed perfect for eggs.

That cute gingham bunny comes from http://www.ishouldbemoppingthefloor.com

The other tree has some green felt leaves and small eggs already and I hung some bunnies, chicks, a sheep, and two carrots on it.

That still left a lot of Spring ornaments. Since I had moved the new wooden bunnies I had left from the pussy willows to the leaf tree, the pussy willows were empty and I realized that they could be our Spring tree!

And we moved some more ornaments to join the ones that were already on the kitchen hooks.

The maple leaf with the drawing of the sugar house hangs near the maple syrup bucket now.

The nest with eggs hangs next to a watering can on the left. We bought that tiny white rabbit on the right at the Evanston sidewalk sales

We were excited to hang the hand carved bird house with a little red bird we bought last summer at the Glenwood Avenue Arts Festival from Vulcan, Michigan crafters LBs Wood Shoppe.

The shelf decorations are still sitting in the bin waiting till we get a bit closer to Easter.