Table Hopping

IMG_4196Hope everyone had a great weekend! As promised, I am sharing photos of my Easter table. I was planning an Easter lunch in the garden, but the weather in Charleston yesterday was not exactly agreeable, so we moved everything inside … and it all worked out. It was a great day filled with good food and good friends, and people arrived at noon and didn’t leave until eight o’clock. A full day of celebrating. And I have to give a shout out to my husband, who did all the flower arrangements for the table, and helped me by blowing out the interiors of the eggs that are sitting in the little pots. Thank you Mr. B! See source info below.DSC_0069DSC_0071DSC_0073DSC_0064 DSC_0074 IMG_4204DSC_0072china / silver / knives / napkin rings / napkins / tablecloth 

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Picking Pomegranates

Pomegranate2Spring has sprung, and I’m thinking about dinner parties in the garden. I keep coming back to the raffia collections at Pomegranate. Available in a variety of festive colors and styles, the raffia collection includes placemats, coasters, and napkin rings. As my outdoor table is very narrow, I really like the circular Ford Raffia Placemat – part placemat, part charger. The prices are also very reasonable, with a set of four placemats available for $70 and a set of four napkin rings for $26. So head on over to Pomegranate, and start planning your outdoor dinner parties – would love to hear about your favorites! Click on the links below.

Kelly Hemstitch Placemats/Parish Placemat/Ford Coaster/Raffia Napkin Rings/Baldwin Placemat/Ford Placemat

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Easter Bunny Coming Early

IMG_3239If you’re anything like me, and you’re hosting Easter, you have already started brainstorming your Easter table. I tend to do this with holidays, and I get really excited about decorating a table perhaps a bit too early than I need to. I’m hoping that we have good weather in Charleston because I would love to host Easter in the garden, as I did last year. Above is the Minton China I just scored from my parents basement. I am absolutely in love with it, and feel like it just screams, “use me for Easter!”. I want to pull the colors from the plates and incorporate them into other pieces of the Easter table.Easter 2Next, I’m seriously considering a Roberta Roller Rabbit tablecloth in the Jemina print. I want the table to look bountiful and have lots of colors and textures – so I like the pattern of the plates atop this block printed favorite.Easter 3If I go with the Roberta tablecloth, I think I might have to jump for these Trimmed Napkins from Wisteria. Currently the only color napkins we have in our drawer are blue, and as Easter signifies spring, I want green to be an overarching theme of the table.Easter 1Now I am not usually a big fan of napkin rings, but since I am going for the bountiful table look, I really love these Queen Anne’s Lace napkin rings from Crate & Barrel. I’m sure a lot of you are better at floral DIY projects than I am, and might take it upon yourself to make real Queen Anne’s Lace napkin rings, but I am not that crafty. And I could see these becoming a tradition at the Easter table in our house. Easter 4Can’t have a table in my house without adding an accent of blue somewhere! I really love these tried and true Fleur-de-Lys Tumblers from Anthropologie. These glasses pull the blue from the china pattern, and are a great contrast with the bright green of the napkins. easter 7Flowers … I’m flirting with the idea of lilacs. I’m not quite sure that we will be able to get them, but I just love the smell and their generally floppy nature. If you look at the china pattern, there is the slightest bit of lavender in the pattern, and I would love to get that to pop. I’m thinking these lilacs could do the trick. What are you thinking for your Easter table? Would love to hear about it!

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