Comments on: Spring Window Shopping in Berlin

By: christy

christy — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:13:56 +0000

I’ve never decorated my home for spring, per say, but I do retire the heavy blankets and switch to a lighter color scheme with our duvets and things. Those butterflies would have made me pause too – gorgeous! And true, how disappointing that the glass like display was really plastic. Boo!

By: jja

jja — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:14:25 +0000

I don’t decorate for Easter but try to have whole spring some fresh flowers in my home…

By: Jennifer S.

Jennifer S. — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:33:48 +0000

My young family has a tradition that every spring we blow eggs to add to our collection. We paint them and I save them carefully from year to year, so that we’ve amassed about 40 of them now. I used to hang them inside from a tree branch, but one year one of my small children knocked the whole thing over and we lost a lot of eggs. Ouch. So now I display them in glass bowls around the house. My kids look forward to this every year.

By: Lora

Lora — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:41:00 +0000

Beautiful photos! I love window shopping, too. And, yes, I do have a few touches of Spring & Easter around the house:)

By: Katherine

Katherine — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:41:03 +0000

I’m surprisingly not big on pastels, but I do love decorating with flowers and branches and moss – whatever little artifacts I can find outside. And the mantle always gets a springy makeover too!

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:52:59 +0000

Thanks for the answers on shortening and KaDeWe, ladies! You are so speedy while I am off at school. Much appreciated!

I don’t cook with any sort of shortening in the US, so naturally I haven’t even tried looking for it here. My sister – a professional cake decorator – says that a lot of cake bakers will use vegetable shortening + powdered chemical “butter” flavorings in the US to make “butter cream frosting”. Yuck! Just a food for thought..

Katie