Triple Choc Easter Nest Cupcakes...

These treaties are simply a chocolate overload!  
Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate chips...
Chocolate butter cream icing...
Chocolate hail...
AND
Chocolate eggs!!!
Was I kidding?
Nope - we are talking a 10 out of 10 on the chocolate overload scale.
But oh they are sooooo goooood!
Find the printable recipe here:
https://sites.google.com/site/miabellapassions/easter/triple-choc-easter-nest-cupcakes
 I'm also loving aqua at the moment!
Especially shabby aqua birdcages!
 I'm loving fuchsias too...
 with their gorgeous ballerina petals.
 Shabby blue glazed birds...
What a pretty vignette with the fuchsias and birdcage. 
 Add the Triple Choc Easter Nest Cupcakes...
 And it's looking a whole lot like Easter here at Mia Bella Passions!
 And just in case you have not seen enough...
 Here...
 are a whole lot more...
 aqua and chocolate divine...
 photos...
 with the added beauty of flowers
 Enjoy this visual feast...
Then pop over here to get your recipe printable for the 
Triple Choc Easter Nest Cupcakes...

Mia Bella Passions: Ella Cat...

 Just had to share these photographs of Ella.
She was mooching around on the 'Porch Love' photo shoot, 
but very quickly developed a look of pure indignation!
That may well have been due to the fact the camera lens was a mere inch from her nose!
 Ella said, 'What do you think you are doing?".
 "Nope I am NOT looking at that black thing you have poked in my face!"
"You are invading my personal space!"
 Not impressed!
"Enough is enough, don't you think?"
I can't decide which pic I like the best...
Which ones your favourite?




Pretty Home Décor Accents Using a Teacup, Flowers and a Doily...

Pretty Home Décor Accents Using a Teacup, Flowers and a Doily...
This would have to be the easiest way to put an instant pop into a room
Use a beautiful hand stitched doily as a base for the vignette...
Add a little posy of hand-picked garden flowers
I have used some sweet dahlias from Mia Bella Gardens...
In gorgeous shades of lemon... 
and pink.
And some sprigs of Sweet Alyssum.
Alyssum 'Carpet of Snow' to be precise!
The tiny flowers have a subtle sweet fragrance.
Worth beyond beauty is the meaning of the Alyssum flower.
Pop the little posy of flowers into a vintage cup of your choice.
This is a teacup from Susie Cooper. 
I LOVE the cream aqua and peach glaze
It is the 'Wedding Band' pattern - 479, from about 1933.
You can read all about  the work of Susie Cooper here:

Pretty home décor accents using a vintage teacup,
a posy of flowers...
And a  hand stitched doily...
Now that is what a call a perfect décor vignette!


Upcycle Boring Old Baskets With Paint & Knobs....



PAINT IN A CAN....
Oh how I lOVE spray paint!
What would we do without it?
Dull and boring is transformed in a moment!
And that is exactly what happened to these baskets.
I gave them a quick coat of white...
Keeping the coverage a little lighter so that some basket colour pops through.
Add some knobs for a bit of interest...
These are more for looks than being of practical use
Oh how I have always adored these shabby old knobs...
They have been on the shelf in the 'might have a use one day' box!
And finally...
They have been repurposed...
as decorative knobs on the fronts of the painted baskets.
Total transformation time - AN HOUR!
(Thankful for the lovely sunshine and hot Autumn day!)
Dull, boring baskets painted up...
now pretty in white, with added shabby knob glory,
 making a 'look at me' shelf statement!


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