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4 Ways to Welcome Spring into Your Home | Spring Homemaking

Adding a touch of Spring to our home this month has brightened our mood as we celebrate the end of this extremely long winter. In this post I share 4 simple ways to welcome Spring into your home!

I won’t lie I cried at the end of April because I had enough of Winter. As those I followed on Instagram posted photos of sunshine and grass, it continued to snow and we rarely saw the sun. BUT Spring has finally made her debut in May and to celebrate I decided to welcome the change of seasons into our home.

One way to welcome spring into your home Girl Holding white tulips

Spring Homemaking

As homemakers, the seasons are a wonderful time to exercise our homemaking skills. From cooking to decorating the possibilities are endless. This is only a very short list, but there are so many other ways to welcome a new season. So let’s dive in! Here are my favourite ways to add a touch of spring in our home: 

4 ways to welcome spring into your home

#1 Change Meals

Move away from soups and cozy meals to refreshing meals. Make salad the meal, add citrus flavours and get outside to BBQ. 

#2 Change Decor to brighter colours 

Winter welcomes cozy and dark colours, where Spring welcomes light and bright! Every season I change over many of our main everyday items. I change our dish towels, dinner table decor, decorative pillows, and blankets. In our living room, I swap out the knitted blankets and plaid pillows, for cotton blankets and sky blue pillows. In our kitchen, I remove the snowflake dish towels and added light blue ones. Lastly, for the dinner table, I remove the table runner and add fresh flowers. I do like to keep the candles on our dinning table because I love how intimate it makes dinner feel.  

#3 Open the windows And Try New Diffuser Blends

During the winter our windows are mainly closed… where I live they are even frozen shut! This makes the house very stuffy. One simple way to make it feel instantly like Spring is to open all the windows in the house and air it out! Another way to freshen the house is to diffuse your favourite citrus essential oils. I have been diffusing lemon a lot. This helps make the house feel renewed after Winters stale air. Another favourite blend is lemon + lavender + peppermint for spring seasonal sniffles.

#4 Fill Your Home With Fresh Flowers

Spring Flowers

Fresh flowers brighten up any space and since our home is an open concept it makes a huge difference to have flowers on our dinner table. My current favourite flowers are white tulips. They are an extremely affordable and they really shout “WELCOME SPRING”. 

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How to Naturally Dye Eggs For Spring | Easter Decorating

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How to Naturally Dye Eggs For Spring | Easter Decorating

Happy Spring Homemakers! In our home we are brightening up our house with Easter eggs. In the post I will teach you below how to naturally dye eggs for your Spring decorating!

Naturally Dyed Easter Eggs in a basket

Here at our home, we are getting into the swing of creating new routines and schedules. Andrew and I are learning a lot about each other… like how I take up the whole bed and he steals covers… I think that evens out!

Read on for how I am decorating this Spring with Easter Eggs. If you want more ideas for welcoming Spring into your home check out this blog post on 4 Ways to Welcome Spring in Your Home | Spring Homemaking

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven ~ Ecclesiastes 3:1

How To Dye Easter Eggs Naturally Blue + Orange

Naturally Dyed Easter Eggs Blue + Orange

A Easter tradition in my family has always been to decorate our home with Easter eggs and is a tradition Andrew and I want to continue in our home. This year instead of buying a kit from the supermarket that is full of ingredients that I don’t know, we experimented with ingredients that you can find in your pantry and fridge to create our own natural dyes! They turned out incredible!! Here is what we used:

For Blue Eggs 

These are my favourite eggs because they look just like robins egg!

You will need:

  • ½ head of red cabbage
  • 2 cups of water
  • 3 Tbsp of vinegar

Shred 1/2 head red cabbage and boil with 2 cups water, then cover and simmer for 30 minutes. Remove the cabbage and add 3 tablespoons vinegar bring to a boil. Let it simmer for at about 15 minutes. Rinse with cold water and what it change colour! 

For Orange Eggs

You will need:

  • 4 Tbsp of Paprika
  • 3 Tbsp of Vinegar
  • 2 Cups of Boiling water

Boil eggs in water with the vinegar and paprika. Let it simmer for at about 15 minutes. Rinse with cold water.

Holding my easter basket filled with naturally dyed easter eggsI hope you enjoyed learning how to decorate your Easter Eggs naturally! How are you celebrating spring this year? 

~xo Jamie

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