As I mentioned last Update, Helene and I are working madly at getting Easter products ready to go on the shelves; some will be appearing at the end of this week at the store downtown. In the evenings I have been making paper flowers for the Easter feather tree. I finally finished the feather tree yesterday and will be bringing it downtown this week.
Feather branches are a Swedish custom at Easter time. Why? I don’t know anymore than I know why a Christmas tree. Like most customs given to us from our ancestors, I imagine the customs started from someplace simple. A desire to dress up our homes for a holiday with something that we had on hand or something we could easily get or make. Branches from the winter tree and bush trimming and feathers from either fowl hunting or the coop; die the feathers (yellow most popular) and tie (or hot glue) the feathers to branches and put them in vases. I get my feathers from a craft store, make paper flowers, add a few little chicks from my craft stash, hang some bells to ring in Easter attach it all to a wire tree I got from a friend of mine and tah-dah, my version of an Easter tradition.
If I can figure out how to load a photo on to this site I’ll show you what the feather tree looks like. Otherwise you’ll need to come and visit us in Mount Horeb.
Peace and Good Health, Tracy
