Happy Easter everyone! One of my resolutions this year was to try and get back to enjoying making instead of it becoming another thing on the to-do list…. finding my creativity again and rediscovering my childhood joy in the act of making.

I am the daughter of a German mother and I am the mother of a Russian Orthodox son, so I connect with Easter as a time of making, even more than Christmas. I loved the Germanic tradition of painting eggs which I remember doing as a child with my mum and my aunt. The Russian Orthodox tradition of staining eggs with a red dye was something from my son’s childhood and I have always had a bit of an obsession for Russian Orthodox iconography. So I thought I’d make my own version of Fabergé’s bejewelled eggs to celebrate Easter.