Easter WREATH

Create the base for this pretty arrangement by attaching dried hay or straw to a moss wreath using wire or string. Decorate with spring flowers and add a faux bird’s nest with faux eggs. Finish with a ribbon made from a fraying length of linen fabric for a rustic style.

FLORAL FANCIES

Use edible and organic flowers and herbs to decorate homemade or shop-bought cakes. Ice sweet buns or traybake cakes with white water icing or make vanilla butter icing, and then arrange petals of primrose, viola, lilac and dandelion with small mint leaves.

LOVELY LINENS

Use pretty fabrics with delicate floral patterns to make your own simple napkins. For each, cut a square of fabric roughly 42cm sq. Iron a folded hem around the back of the square, cutting the corners off to make the folds neater, and sew in place. Napkins made in Arabella linen in grass/white, heather/white and aqua/white: all £65/m, Pippa Blacker Interiors. Enamel plate, £7; water hyacinth placemats, £14.99/four: all Dobbies

LUNCHEON HAMPER

A light picnic can be as simple as fresh bread, cheese, tomatoes and boiled quail’s eggs followed by fruit buns and honey. Line the basket with fabric to use as cutlery . a ‘tablecloth’ and remember to pack

For a similar basket, try Straw London. William Morris enamel mug, £6.99, Dobbies. Raw honey, £10.99, Maters & Co. Rhubarb Crush drink, £22/six, Luscombe