Kevin Sharkey's Easter Decorations
I hope you all had a wonderful Easter Weekend!
As many of you know, whenever I am home I always decorate for major holidays. For Easter, I fill my Winter House rooms with lots of chicks, bunnies, and eggs. My dear friend, Kevin Sharkey, our Executive Vice President and Executive Creative Director of Design for Martha Stewart at Marquee Brands, also enjoys decorating his New York City apartment for various occasions. This year, he created lovely Easter vignettes featuring colorful Easter themed candies, figurines, and eggs in all different sizes - some of his decorations were also surrounded by beautiful lilies and bird's nest ferns.
Everything looked so pretty, I asked him to take photos to share with all of you, enjoy.
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- Decorating for holidays can be lots of fun. One important tip is to start ahead of time. Kevin decorated his home several days early.
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- Decorative eggs fill this Easter bunny platter.
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- Here is a view from above – the more eggs the merrier.
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- Consider decorating with multiples of one item. Here, Kevin lined up bunnies on this credenza – each one tied with a little ribbon.
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- Here is a view of them from the front.
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- On this table, potted gorgeous, fragrant white blooms we know as Easter lilies, Lilium longiflorum. Easter lilies grow between one to three feet tall and bloom in clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers.
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- A large basket filled with eggs and flanked by bunnies sits on Kevin’s coffee table.
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- This is one of two Guanyin bodhisattvas. Guanyin is the Chinese translation of Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, mercy, and love. For Easter, both figures are adorned with decorated eggs.
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- Silver colored eggs and the one “golden” egg.
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- And here are jars of beautiful pastel colored candies and chocolates. Decorations don’t have to be expensive – just creatively and beautifully presented.
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- Here is another small bunny and a goose sharing a basket of orange jelly beans.
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- Place colorful candies in decorative dishes all around the home for guests.
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- Here, Kevin lines up a series of bird’s nest ferns in silver vessels surrounded by Easter themed figures and more candy.
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- Bird’s nest ferns form a series of long, bright green fronds that rise from a central rosette. In the center, Kevin “nests” a beautiful gold egg.
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- In between these two ferns is a dish of bright colored green jelly beans and more ceramic bunnies and birds.
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- Here is the other Guanyin bodhisattva – this one is holding up an egg with three others resting on her lap.
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- Details can be small – such as these bunny shaped clips on place cards.
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- All Kevin’s eggs and other Easter decorations looked even more stunning at night. Such beautiful decorations, Kevin – thanks for sharing them. And if you don’t already, be sure to follow Kevin on Instagram @seenbysharkey.
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