Our Easter Tablescape

Well...by the time I got home and finished setting the table, the sun decided to change to clouds!  But I wanted to post some pictures tonight.  Hopefully there will be good sunlight tomorrow, so I post more pictures.

I just fell in love with the orange, green, pink and a dash of yellow color scheme.  It's such a happy combination.  It says spring plus warm weather ahead for me.

Maybe you noticed the little "flowers" I placed in the egg cups in the second picture.  These were super simple to make and perhaps a little more fun to see in the egg cups than eggs!

Just use a toothpick to skewer the gumdrops...then wind some organza ribbon around it in leaf-like folds.  Secure with florist wire or rubberbands - whatever you have on hand and then place in egg cups or small glassware.  You can secure several together at a time - or once you have a few in your cup, you can just place a few extra gumdrops on top.

So...hopefully the sun will be shining tomorrow, so I can post more pics!  Thanks for coming to take a look!

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Between Naps on the Porch

Funky Junk Interiors

Getting Ready for Easter and Easter Decorations

I don't know where the time went...but it's almost Easter.  How did that happen?  Wasn't it just Christmas?  Anyway, with the warm weather that we had today, I had to go shopping for some Easter supplies for my children and grandchildren.  Thank goodness I was able to snag some chocolate Easter bunnies (they were all out of the regular hollow ones - that I don't really like anyway) - they were solid and they cost a fortune...but my kids are worth it!

I just put the water on to boil for the Easter eggs.  It gets lonelier each year doing Easter eggs, now that my kids are all grown up and they don't want to do it. There were one or two times recently that I didn't bother to color eggs - but I know that it's such a nice tradition and they are so colorful...and good for you!

I am going to do a tablescape tomorrow, in preparation for the weekend festivities.  But I thought I'd show you some of the things that inspired me this year. I love vibrant colors - I'm not the pastel type at all.  It started with my friend Debbie who owns Honeysuckle and Roses florals in Westhampton Beach, NY.  She gave me a few roses...which were beautiful.

And then I did a little bit of shopping at Pier One and HomeGoods (with the colors of the roses in my head!). I found the beautiful table runner and the napkins at Pier One and most of the other items at HomeGoods (except that cute bunny, which I bought a few years ago in NYC!)

So...I hope that you will come back to see how I did with the tablescape.  Oh boy, the pressure's on! But, I will leave you with a link to one of Marian Parson's (Miss Mustardseed's) tablescape projects - how to make these tissue pompoms. This appeared awhile back on HGTV.com.  I am going to make some tomorrow as well. If you have never seen her blog, I encourage you to visit it!

 

Miss Mustardseed

So...my eggs are just about done.  I hope that you'll pop back tomorrow to see my tablescape!