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An extract from the May newsletter:

Spring into Easter!

Home Stagers stylists Collette Hanlon & Alison Stone offer their top tips for creating a fun Easter theme!

Why not add to the merriment of the Easter morning by following your Easter egg hunt with a truly scrumptious Easter breakfast table!  The great thing about this is with a little time and effort, not to mention bucket loads of fun, it needn't cost the earth. If  you have children to entertain over the Easter school holiday, preparing the decorations is also a great way to keep them busily occupied too! 

The breakfast table can be fun and colourful; Think of your colour palette as looking like a bowl of sugared almonds, sugary pinks, pastel greens, lemons, and duck egg blues. Then using existing plain cloth, run lengths of pastel ribbons down the length of the table as a cheaper and prettier alternative to a table runner.  For a striking and fun table centre piece, take a kitchen jug (an enamel one is perfect) and raid the garden for tall twigs, curly hazel is perfect, as it has such a sculptural effect. Get the children to decorate cardboard egg shapes, and then simply hang them from thin ribbon or lengths of wool from the branches.  Use baskets or willow wreaths lined with shredded tissue to create ‘nests' and fill with small chocolate eggs and mini chicks! Look in the supermarkets for fun paper plates, and paper cups like polka dots, and use these together with any bright coloured china you may already have. The more miss matched and eclectic the ensemble, the more charming the effect.  Egg cosies in fun Easter themes are another ‘task' for the older children, they could be made from felt squares, or even knitted for a really nostalgic vintage effect. Toast racks, and little pots of jam and marmalade add to the sense of occasion, as does a brightly coloured tea pot!

Afternoon Tea: Easter is a great time for reviving afternoon tea, and is perfect if you have visitors or guests popping by.

Embellish with tea lights in glass votives or small jam jars for extra sparkle.  Check your cupboards and attic to see if you still have one of those fancy two tiered cake stands, which seem to have come back into vogue together with the vintage/retro style revival.  Pile your cake stand with a cornucopia of iced fairy cakes decorated in sugary pastel icing and topped off with one of those mini eggs!  Don't forget the simnel cake too, totally indulgent I know, but there is still plenty of time before the bikinis have to come out!  Use plain pastel cotton or linen napkins to enhance the setting, and delicately coloured glasses for elderberry cordial, for a promise of summer to come.
Vintage china tea sets are pretty, but if this is too fussy for your tastes, go with simple whites, teamed with natural textiles and textures, the simplicity of which never fails to look stylish.
Choose simple spring flowers as your centre piece, either galvanised or weathered clay pots of delightfully scented hyacinths, topped off with moss, or a bunches of pure narcissi in jam jars, twisted with plain raffia.

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