HAPPY EASTER ON PINK SATURDAY

Pink Saturday hosted by my dearest friend Beverly at, How Sweet the Sound, is a day for all Pinkies to show their pink.  I am proud to be a Pinkie and if you consider yourself to be a Pinkie too, visit Beverly's blog for Pink madness.  You will have fun, I guarantee it personally.

Dear Beverly this poem is for you.

You're a springtime kind of person,
and there's sunshine in your smile.
There's warmth in all the gladness you impart.
And here's the special reason
you're so like this lovely season--
It's the springtime that you keep within your heart.
Happy Easter Happy Spring

author unknown

Thank you so much for hosting Pink Saturday and for being my forever friend.

xo, JEANNE

First the Easter banner on my halltree  greeting you as you enter our home.

 

HAPPY EASTER

Remember these from last week?

These flowers had to be potted in these sweet flower pots.

 

The next photos show you what we used to create the centerpieces for my garden club tables.

 

The baskets we used to fill with candy for the centerpieces.

Some of the bunnies etc. used for the centerpieces.

These greetings were made with cards I found on google and copied.

 FINALLY...

TA DA

THE CENTERPIECE

I took this photo in my house when we set up the practice arrangement.

We decorated ten tables.

I didn't realize how wrinkled my table cloth was.  I put it on the table just for this photo. Sigh!!!

Note:  The club members enjoyed them so much they applauded .  Another club member helped me and  we were rewarded for our efforts.  It was so delightful to have the fun of doing these centerieces.

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A few more pics of my Easter decorations in our home. 

We are in Florida for Easter so I didn't do much.

Just enough to make me smile.  I hope you will too.

 

The yellow egg box is filled with chocolate eggs and it is a  small gift for dear friends in Florida.

 

This mamma has her hands full.

 

An Easter greeting from this little chick and me.

Blessings and love,

JEANNE

 

Comments

[Pat]

Happy Easter! Those are some very cute bunnies. & a cute chick.
Pat

[Francie Thornton]

Happy Easter to my favorite back yard neighbor (())

[Diane]

Centerpieces are splendid! Happy Pink Saturday and Happy Easter. ~Diane (I am #16)

[HappierThanAPigInMud]

The centerpieces turned out really cute Jeanne! Happy Easter Weekend-enjoy:@)

[Ann]

Everything looked "Eastery". Love the checked bunnies. Hope you have a blessed Easter.

[Betty]

I would never have noticed the wrinkled tablecloth if you hadn't mentioned it. I was too busy studying the pretty centerpiece. :)

[wendy]

Well Jeanne, of course they would applaud...it looks lovely. Have a great Easter with your friends.
xxxoooo

[Pat@Back Porch Musings]

Happy Easter Jeanne!

[Beverly]

Happy Pink Saturday and Happy Easter, my dearest friend. Gosh, girl. You made me cry. No joke. Really cry. Thank you for the kind words of this poem. You touched my heart, and you gave me words of which to aspire. I know your centerpieces were a big hit, and I smile thinking of the applause. It was well deserved.

I know you are having a great time with your family. Please give Christina a big hug from me. I wish I was with you sipping my cup of coffee this morning. It went to the high thirties last night, and it is feeling a bit chilly this morning.

Today we are on a mission of our "regular Saturday duties" plus a few additional duties so I'll be ready for tomorrow. Easter is my favorite of all holidays that we observe. It represents all that we have in faith and hope.

[dana]

Awwww....what a wonderful poem you dedicated to your BFF!!! It made me tear up, too!

I love how your centerpieces turned out!! I'm sure your garden club ladies were very much impressed with your creative talents...I certainly am.

Your other Eastery touches around your home are perfect. I must adopt that decorating approach...just putting out enough stuff to make you smile! I haven't put a a thing....and Easter is tomorrow, right? Ruh..Roh...better get busy, huh? :)

How awesome that you will be with your family in FLA for the weekend. I know it will be a wonderful time for all of you!

Happy Easter, Jeanne. I hope the big bunny brings you lots of chocolate eggs!! :) L, Dana

[claudie]

And I applaude you too. What a nice poem for your dear friend Beverly.
Happy Easter in Fla. Jeanne.
I miss you, but I know you are with the ones you love.
LYTTMABA
xoxoxoxo

[RobinfromCA]

What delightful centerpieces for your garden club friends. I especially love those little, cheerful flower pots with the pretty pink flowers in them!
Have a wonderful Easter!
Robin

[Zanab]

Yes, I'm aware of Manders' technique. I thugoh hard about doing all those computations on the GPU myself, but there is a big difference between our samples.He only has lines for which to draw shadows, while I have polygons with arbitrary number of edges. For a line, no matter of the light's position relative to it, the shadow always has the same shape. This is not so for a polygon, and depends both on the shape of the polygon and on the position of the light. One way to do this would be to draw the shadow volumes for each edge of the polygon, in the same way as Manders draws shadows for his lines, but depending on the level of detail of that polygon, this could result in a great number of Draw calls (order of tens), as opposed to a single Draw call for the whole object's shadow, as it happens now. These add up, and may actually hurt performance more than benefit it.This is one area where DirectX10 geometry shaders would come in handy, as they could be used to generate the shadow's geometry on the GPU, for any convex shape imaginable. But since XNA is DX9 only, for now I'll have to stick to doing all this on the CPU.One other idea would be to move these computations on another thread, and use multi-threading, but this is dangerous territory as well.