Bunnies In the Grass Table

The bunnies all hopped in to say hello for this 

Easter Tablescape.  They are just relaxing on 

the grass before Easter arrives, and 

hoping to get a bite to eat. 

You may remember our Easter a couple of years 

ago where the kids all took pictures with 

my son and DIL's bunnies.  The bunny on  

these salad plates remind of their bunnies.  

They actually thought they had run away, but 

they had burrowed down into tunnels, 

and were happily hiding out. 

Everything in the plate stack is square, and 

embossed white.  Turning some on an angle 

gives the plates a little more interest. 

The napkins pick up on the pink of the blossom 

on the plate. 

I made these bunny ear napkin rings a few 

years ago, covering toilet paper rolls 

with burlap, and surging the edges of the 

ears, and then gluing the ears on. 

Garden green flatware goes so nicely. 

I used my Mother's pink stemware to go along with 

the pink accents on the table.   

Of course, my favorite part of the table, and 

the most delicious is the Ombre Bunny Mini Cake 

at the top of each placesetting.

The table really makes it feel like Easter in the 

dining room.

This will be an unusual Easter for us, with 

no little cuties running around collecting 

Easter Eggs and having a fun dinner, so I 

made some fun treats to drop by their houses.   

I will be posting the directions for the 

Ombre Bunny Mini Cakes in my 

next post.  (They are delicious!)

And so stinking cute!!

Thanks for stopping by.  Although your Easter celebration 

may be unique this year, I hope it brings you peace 

and finds you healthy.

I will be posting this with 

Tablescapes Thursday

Share Your Creativity

In My Easter Basket Table

The smell of chocolate still reminds me of Easter Bunnies!

If I had only one thing in my Easter Basket, it would be 

Chocolate Bunnies and Chocolate Eggs.

Easter will be different this year, with no family 

gathering.  We are to "Stay Home and Stay Safe",

and we are taking it seriously.

We will miss having all of the little ones here 

and the fun and joy that they bring, but we can 

enjoy them by FaceTime - how blessed are we?!!

I thought this table runner, which I had 

purchased on sale a few years ago was 

the perfect theme for this year's Easter Tablescape.

I had also purchased these darling MacKenzie-Childs 

egg-shaped plates last year, but never used them.

They feature a gold bunny, 

and a gold chick.

Did the Easter Bunny always leave trails of candy for 

you?  Ours did, and one year he even hopped over 

my bed and left trails on me bed!!

Although this makes a pretty table,

I have to move the chocolate, as the morning 

sun would melt it all.  

Everything else can stay.

My stack started with gold ceramic chargers that 

I have had for at least 30 years.  Then it was topped 

with a scalloped MC enamel plate, a gold rimmed 

rustic glass plate, and finally the MC egg plates.

I brought out the gold twig flatware to go with 

this black and white and gold table.

Thanks for stopping by to visit!  I hope you are all 

Staying Home, and Staying Safe!

Nevertheless, at this time when we celebrate 

the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ, 

may faith and hope be in your hearts and minds.  

Hugs from our home to yours.

(The huge bunny and egg were saved 

from last year - even though the 

kids wanted to eat them.  Two of the "chocolate 

bunnies" are not real.  Other candy was 

purchased before we started "Stay Home

Stay Safe" but some things can still be

ordered online.)

I will be posting this with

Tablescapes Thursday

Love Your Creativity

Pink and Green Easter Table Two Ways

Are you like me and just love setting the

table for a party?  It definitely is one of my

happy places.  

This table was set for my craft group.  We get

together once a month and craft together.

I feel so lucky to have been invited into

this group.  We were talking about it and it

all started a few years ago at Christmas time

when my friend Laura called and said that

some of them were doing a Christmas home

tour that night, and did I want to come. 

Of course I did!!

But was I also willing to let them come visit

my home.  Well, I had spent the whole day baking

for a church dinner and the counter was a mess,

and the ward dinner started in half an hour, but

hubby pulled through and helped me spiff up

the kitchen and I was able to do both the

ward dinner and the home tour.  That was the

start of our craft group.

Since Easter is this week and we were working

on an Easter craft, I decided to set an Easter table.

Normally I would do fresh flowers to bring

in spring, but I had just purchased these beautiful

silk peonies, so they became the centerpiece, sitting

on a grass runner.

These adorable pink and green dotted bunny plates

were purchased several years ago from Home Goods.

Since I was in junior high, pink and green have been

one of my favorite color combinations for spring.

I sat them on my favorite white wood chargers

from Pier 1.

We were having a fondue dinner so I had

two color coded fondue forks for each person

and a brass basket for scooping out things that

don't skewer that well.

The little white rabbits were a favor for

everyone.  I added the moss green wire

and some flowers.  

A little bunny tag was

used for place cards and two kinds of

flowers and a little hot glue and I

had pretty matching napkin rings.  

I only had four of each napkin and there

are eight of us, so I alternated them.

 These pretty pink goblets were purhased

from Pier 1 a couple of years ago.

The final touch for the table was using

my chiavari chairs and covering them with

curly willow chair covers in blush.  I used these

for our Christmas table and they add such a beautiful

touch.  They are from CV Linens and very

reasonable.

I had used the same plates and goblets

for a table in my dining room with a bunny fur

runner.

I used sterling silver flatware for this fancier

table, and the bunnies were nestled in the fur runner.

This glittering bunny was from Pier 1 last year

and was featured atop a gold embellished marble

cake pedestal.  The table featured three of these.

Our fondue dinner consisted of three courses.

The appetizer course was a Southwest Cheese

and an Italian Pizza Cheese.  The main course

was chicken, steak, shrimp and potstickers cooked

in oil.  The final course was chocolate and caramel

fondue with fruit, brownies and cookies for dipping.

It all finished with creating our Grandin Road

copycat Easter Eggs.  Brenda spent hours figuring

out how to create the harlequin pattern and trace

it on for us.

These were mine.  I painted my butterfly egg

pink and added glittered dots.

Brenda had prepped the eggs by painting them

white, then drawing on the pattern.  The eggs

were from Hobby Lobby.

Karen decided to leave her eggs the original color

from Hobby Lobby and she painted on Mod Podge

and glittered them with Martha Stewart Glitter

It was a fabulous evening filled with fun, food,

crafting and lots of fun conversation.

I hope you have a wonderful Easter.

I will be posting this with

Tablescapes Thursday

Share Your Cup Thursday

Dishing It and Digging It

Metamorphosis Monday

Spring and Easter Joys

Easter Dinner in the Great Hall

Easter is one of my favorite holidays of the year.

I remember as a little girl always getting an Easter bonnet,

new shoes, a new dress, a new purse and gloves!  I really

liked the bonnet, gloves and purse.

Here I am in my yellow Easter bonnet, sitting 

on my dad's lap.  (1958) 

We even have Easter coats on!

So Easter dinner with the family is special,

and since we keep growing, we decided to

have it in the living room, so we could all

sit at one table.  We have had this table set up for

several events since the beginning of February.

When I told the kids to take it down, there were

moans and groans, and I was asked to keep it up for

Mother's Day.

We decided we should just change the living room

to the

GREAT HALL

(like in Harry Potter)

for feasts and family dinners!  I guess we could

move the living room furniture into the formal

dining room!  Haha!!  We will see!

A black and white striped tablecloth was paired

with a sparkling pink runner, and that was topped

with square, embossed white plates.

I brought out the sterling that I had

purchased from my Aunt Ionia's Estate.

I thought it was Whiting's Lily (the spoon on the

right), as that was the pattern of the berry spoon

I had inherited from my parents' estate, but when

I ordered and received some Lily pieces to

replace missing pieces, I realized I didn't have

the right pattern.  After a little research I found

that it was Wallace's Violet pattern instead.  There

are two editions of Violet, so I ended up with a mix

of all three patterns, but I think they go beautifully

together and I have enough for everyone.

I had fun with some tags that I found

on

Wings of Whimsy.  

They were used to decorate the table

and each place setting.

My gorgeous cookies with edible images

from Fancy Flours were part of the decor

for each place setting.

Easter goodies adorned the table.

A touch of natural grass

and cut stems added a little greenery.

More Easter goodies were at the other

end of the table.

I just loved the black and white stripe

with the soft pink.  It created a fun, new look

for the table.  

It is fun to take photos from the balcony upstairs.

This one was taken before the cookies were

placed on the plates.

I hope you had a wonderful Easter too.

If we decide to turn the living room into

the Great Hall, I will let you know!  Seems

like everyone loves it this way!!!

May your lives be filled with family memories.

I will be posting with

Tablescapes Thursday

Share Your Cup Thursday

Pink Saturday

Dishing It and Digging It