Easter

When is it time for Easter eggs, Easter lunch and true Easter ‘hygge’? This is a question the nephew often asks, when Christmas has passed. Anna and Clara do not always answer his question instantly, as Easter does not fall on a fixed date every year. Clara has looked deeper into when Easter is celebrated, and she has discovered that Easter Day always falls on a Sunday, thereof Easter Sunday.

In the old days, Sunday was a holiday, and it was also believed that Jesus resurrected on a Sunday. Easter is always celebrated on the first Sunday following the full moon that occurs on or just after the spring equinox. This is a little too complicated for Anna, who prefers checking her and Clara’s calendar when answering the nephew on when it is time to celebrate Easter.

During the wonderful time of Easter, you find Easter eggs in all shapes and sizes in Anna and Clara’s home. The edible Easter eggs are divided into two bowls on the coffee table bringing great happiness and joy among the sisters’ guests. Clara has divided the edible Easter eggs into one bowl with chocolate eggs, and one bowl with the sisters’ homemade filled chocolate eggs.

When the sisters invite their loved ones for Easter lunch, they are fond of creating a lovely Easter table setting. If you are organising an Easter lunch for your loved ones at home, you may be looking for inspiration on how to set the table.

“Yellow is the colour of Easter,” Anna believes, and it shows through the table decorations. Anna is particularly fond of picking lovely, yellow daffodils in the sisters’ garden and placing them in vases on the table. “Create a wonderful table setting with beautiful Easter flowers,” Anna says. When setting the Easter table, Anna puts a cloth on the table, preferably in a white or yellow colour, and adds matching linen napkins.

When Easter is approaching, Anna and Clara go to their attic to find and bring down their box of Easter decorations. In the box, you find, among others, some lovely Easter eggs made of porcelain, some crocheted Easter eggs, and some lovely Easter chickens and bunnies made of yarn and carton.

The sisters are particularly fond of placing Easter decorations on:

• Spring twigs
• Windowsills
• Various shelves and tables

It is the homemade Easter decorations that take up the most space in the box. Anna believes that a combination of homemade and purchased Easter decorations brings a unique and personal touch to your home. Only after the box of Easter decorations has been emptied, the Easter spirit can truly settle.