Yesterday the sun shone all day. For some reason it boosted my energy, and instead of sowing seeds as planned, and making pancakes, I ended up giving the kitchen a really good clean. Wretched sunshine does like to show up dirty windows and highlight dust. When I'd finished I thought how un-springlike the kitchen felt. As in every household, it's the most used room in the house and I like it to reflect the changing of seasons.
I'd run out of time for the day, so I couldn't do anything about it, but I did dig out a couple of 'how to's' that I'd squirreled away, ready to use today.
I've written before about how much I love big paper decorations. It all started when I bought these massive pink paper balls from [Re-found objects].
I bring them out for Christmas, birthdays, Easter, for any excuse that I can really. Just to add a zing of pink sometimes. I love them. I'm always on the lookout for instructions on how to make similar looking decorations myself. I've made them using Martha Stewarts [Tissue Paper Pom Poms] instructions, which worked out pretty well. Would have been much better if I'd given myself more time in which to make them (hence the lack of photo evidence of my attempt!). I've tried stapling coffee filters together, but I find it impossible. Mine never look like this.
Mine always look like a bunch of coffee filters stapled together. Not an idea for me, so I have given up on it. I think it was the April edition of Essentials magazine where I spotted this decoration, one that they called 'Tissue Blooms'.
These are the magazine's instructions, which you can click to enlarge. 
But I also took photos as I made the first one this morning, to make it really easy. I think the magazine leave out one very vital instruction. The instruction being to repeat the process three times and attaching together to from one large pom pom. 
Step 1. take 6 sheets of A4 tissue paper, then fold in half.
Step 2. Cut strips into the folded tissue, cuting towards the fold but not quite reaching it.
Step 3. flatten out the tissue, then gather and scrunch down the centre fold.
Step 4. Secure the centre and fluff out the petals.
Then it should say 'repeat this two more times, attach, secure and *ta~da* you have one pom pom bloom. They just say 'make three more' but leave out that they all need attaching together. Just a little detail, but one that should have been clearer.
After that, I made a few more in different sizes. The smaller the pom pom, the less layers of tissue I used in each section. 
These were both simple and quick to make. For now I'm happy to have them in the kitchen, adding a little bit of spring zest, but they'll probably be moved about quite a lot as I change my mind.
I also keep meaning to show photos of some pretty pastel eggs that I bought a few weeks ago.
They cost just £1 for six from The Range (where else?!), and are perfect for hanging on an Easter tree. 