Special Photos from My Easter at the Farm
Thank you so much for all the lovely comments I received about my Easter celebration.
This year’s Easter at my Bedford, New York farm was so wonderful. All of my guests and I enjoyed a delicious lunch; and, my annual egg hunt was a huge success - the children found every one of the 270 hidden eggs, including the gold ones! The best part about the holiday was spending it with my family and close friends.
All the decorations are now stored neatly in plastic bins until next Easter, but I wanted to share a few more photos I captured from this year’s special gathering. I hope you enjoy them!
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- I hope you all enjoyed your Easter celebrations. My personal executive assistant, Shqipe, made these letters and paper eggs and chicks using our new Martha Stewart Crafts Cricut – find it on Michaels.com Friday, April 6th, and at Michael’s stores early next month. We love this machine. It is a must-have for any craft room.
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- Here are the two children’s tables set up in the Carriage House. Each table was set with more candy from our friends at Gimbal’s and Sugarfina. The placemats are from my original collection at KMart – they were so very popular. https://www.sugarfina.com/candy/all-candy/best-sellers http://shop.gimbalscandy.com/
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- We placed all the Easter box baskets on a long table in the center of the stable, so the contents of each box could be removed while the children hunted for eggs.
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- These boxes from Sugarfina were perfect for our egg hunt.
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- This is one of two black canary cages that I store in the Carriage House. They will eventually be moved into a new enclosed porch I’m building up at my Winter House. We decided to line it with a bedding of soft straw and place some of our two-week old chicks inside for the children to see.
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- The chicks were so happy – chirping away and loving all the attention – and then they were returned to their special chick enclosure.
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- Here is the wide windowsill inside the Carriage House looking out onto the cobblestone courtyard. All these porcelain bunnies were from previous Macy’s collections. Macy’s now carries very charming porcelain bunny salt and pepper shakers from the Martha Stewart Collection. Take a look on their web site. goo.gl/RTfcsi
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- Here is the line of bunnies from the other side of the window – is that Kevin’s reflection?
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- Up by the Winter House, my two male peacocks wandered all the way to the terrace parterre to greet my visitors and show off their gorgeous feathers.
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- These peacocks are still quite young. They won’t have their long, colorful tails until they are three years old.
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- On one of my porch tables – an Easter basket from Kevin a few years back. Kevin gives me a gorgeous Easter basket every year. Did you see this year’s gift basket? It is on my Instagram page @MarthaStewart48 and on Kevin’s @seenbysharkey.
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- Inside, on my Green Parlor coffee table is this vase of spectacular bronze sweet peas. Sweet pea is a flowering plant native to Sicily, Cyprus, southern Italy and the Aegean Islands. They bear large, often ruffled, blooms in a rainbow of shades. I got them from the Ductch Flower Line in New York City. They opened so perfectly just in time.
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- On this tall bureau are two vases of ranunculus from F.W. Battenfield & Son. Ranunculus flowers look almost too perfect to be real. Their exquisite, rose-like blossoms come in a rainbow of colors and are often used in wedding bouquets.
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- And many of you recognize these, I am sure. These are bunnies wrapped in foil – they look so much like big chocolate bunnies ready to be unwrapped and eaten – but they’re not.
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- And on this demilune in my foyer is another vase of fresh blooms – hellebores. The “blooms”, which are actually sepals that protect the true flowers, last for several months, from February until May. These also came from the Dutch Flower Line because mine are still covered in snow.
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- On this table – early 19th century Bimini German glass tulips. Visitors are always surprised to find out they are not real tulips.
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- A small vase of colorful clematis were placed on this table in my “bird room”. Delicate bird nests filled with eggs sit on the silver serving tray.
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- This is a view of my servery looking into my kitchen. I often serve beverages from this area whenever I entertain. It is a popular space for guests to gather.
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- Underneath this cake stand dome, Laura placed glittered wooden “cookies” – these, too, almost look too real.
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- I love this faux bois bowl. It was made by ceramicist, or ceramist, Christopher Spitzmiller, popularly known for his most exquisite lamps. http://www.christopherspitzmiller.com/
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- This view is looking from the opposite side of my servery into the “bird room”. The big rabbit is the same one I made for the April 2015 issue of MSLiving. http://www.marthastewart.com.
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- Here are more blown out eggs saved from a previous year. I always save my blown out eggs – if stored properly, they can last for years and years and years.
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- Remember those pussy willows, Salix discolor, we arranged a few weeks back? Here they are still looking so wonderful in the Brown room. Guests loved them.
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- To accommodate all my adult guests, we needed an extra table last minute and set this one up in my “bird room”.
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- And here is a look at my long dining table before my guests arrived for lunch – the peacock feathers in the center look so marvelous along with the potted bird’s nest ferns – so perfect for Easter.
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- This is my favorite photo from this year’s Easter party – the giant 19th century gilded copper falcon – not eagle – holding a small basket with one single egg inside. I got this falcon because there are so many falcons and hawks flying around on the property – guests love seeing it as they enter my home. Please let me know about your Easter gatherings in the comments section below.
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