tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37618298949857402562024-03-13T03:00:03.264-07:00Plum Creek PlaceCandy Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06469612721498821255noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761829894985740256.post-63003593539726976592017-09-30T13:38:00.000-07:002017-10-02T16:14:02.873-07:00Making a Fairy Garden out of a broken flower pot.<span id="goog_291507250"></span><span id="goog_291507251"></span><br />
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<span id="goog_291507248"></span><span id="goog_291507249"></span><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What do you do with a broken flower pot? You could toss it, but if it's big enough, a broken pot fairy garden is a good option to upcycle your broken pot. This is a great option if you like puttering around with plants but want to scale down the size of the garden you are working with. All of my fairy gardens are in various size containers small enough for this senior lady and raised up enough so there is no bending involved in their care.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">After scrubbing up the pieces to my broken pot I laid out the pieces and started gluing and reconstructing the major parts of the pot.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The piece below was reconstructed to place inside of the main pot to serve as the pot within the pot .</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A fairy house and plants (and fairies too) will be used in this section.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The back of the pot looks pretty good.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> A few of the pieces did not fit in but I saved them for future use on another project.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The larger main pieces were glued and held together with wire while they dried.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was able to tighten the wire before the glue started to dry.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Once the glue dried I lined and glued (with waterproof glue) the inside portion of the pot that would be below the soil line with</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">black landscape cloth. The bottom of the pot was covered with a piece of coco mat</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">By early August the broken pot fairy garden looked like this. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I first noticed the crack in this large pot on Valentine's Day last winter. The crack was </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">already pretty bad and the worst of the winter had yet to come. Snow, rain, then freezing temps finally fractured the pot.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The miniature thyme plants were a pretty shade of red as they wintered over.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I take in the China Doll plants (my Fairy Garden size trees)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">for the winter. I use a few faux evergreens to hold the </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">soil in place over the winter months. Plus I do decorate them for </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Christmas too.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I use an extra thick contractors bag as a free-form flower planter. It is tied securely with rope </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">around the outside front of the fairy garden tub. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Once the broken pot fairy garden was "finished" it continued to evolve as I found rocks and plants that I liked. I even found a pair of dragons to guard the entry and a new fairy "house".</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> This handsome dragon guards the lower entryway. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">A circular stairway climbs up to the upper entryway. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Even the back of the broken pot fairy garden is fun to look at with various plants </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The second guard dragon sleeps at the top of the stairway. He makes sure that no spiders are </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">sneaking into the fairy houses.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Long slim leaves made of glass help the fairies find their way to the top of the pot.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> A young Irish fairy guards the entry to the secret garden. He also tries to guard against the chipmunks burying their seeds in the Irish moss front lawn. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The little pink fairy house was replaced when I found this charming green church birdhouse. It made a perfect fairy house ( fairies can fly so it is ok to not have a door). Even better that it is the perfect match to the slightly larger fairy (bird) house in the next fairy garden over.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">First the new house used in this broken pot garden.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The (older) house has been out in the garden for several years. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I will be repainting it over the winter.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Right now the fairy garden is getting ready for a Spooktacular Halloween.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Susan's <a href="http://betweennapsontheporch.net/a-belleek-castle-lamp-gets-a-major-makeover-the-before-after/" target="_blank">Metamorphosis Monday</a></span></span></span></div>
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<br />Candy Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06469612721498821255noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761829894985740256.post-84796949795100472392017-04-14T18:33:00.000-07:002017-04-14T18:33:01.685-07:00Saying Goodbye to Mr. Cottontale a redo on 2014 Tablescape.Sometimes you have to make decisions that don't make you very happy at all. That is the way I felt about selling my sweet daffodil and bunny Easter dinnerware. But I do have my memories.......<br />
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Perhaps you may remember way back in April 2014 a post of mine called <u><a href="http://plumcreekplace.blogspot.com/2014/04/here-comes-peter-cottontail-tablescape.html" target="_blank">Here Comes Peter Cottontail. </a></u><br />
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I was so tickled to use the Daffodil and Bunny plates that I had found sometime before that at a garage sale. I loved those bunny plates. We continued to use those plates for Spring table settings right up until this year. <br />
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I started to sell off my tablescaping stash last year. Most of my Fall dinnerware and a bit of the Christmas has already been sold. All of my Easter plates are now gone with the exception of my cabbage plates and egg shaped dessert plates that I intend to keep. I still have so much to sell and yes each item I sell makes me a bit sad as I pack them up and ship them out. <br />
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Enough of that... Lets take a look at Peter Cottontail's tablescape. (Spoiler alert - Lots of pictures). There was a bounty of bunnies on this happy Easter table setting.<br />
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There were small bunnies</div>
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There were garden bunnies.</div>
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There were fat bunnies.</div>
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There were long and skinny bunnies.</div>
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There were white bunnies and brown bunnies. </div>
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And a bunny in a cage. </div>
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Even a bunny Peter Cottontail Tea Set </div>
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There were many Clothtique types of bunnies across the tablescape doing all kinds of Easter bunny chores.<br />
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Most of all a tablescape is about the dinnerware, glassware, and flatware.</div>
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Yes I am sad that I will not ever set another table with these happy festive bunny plates but it is so very good to know they are going to a new home with young children. They are making memories for another family this Easter Season.</div>
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Hop Along Mr. Cottontail, Hop along that long and winding Bunny Trail. Happy trails to you, until we meet again. <br />
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<br />Candy Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06469612721498821255noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761829894985740256.post-56016694782450250052017-03-17T16:09:00.000-07:002017-03-17T16:09:44.298-07:00Happy Saint Patrick's Day at Plumcreek Place<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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Candy Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06469612721498821255noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761829894985740256.post-86155277825598930132016-03-16T17:25:00.000-07:002016-04-07T12:06:50.057-07:00Shamrocks and Roses 2016 Saint Patrick's Day Tablescape It is that time of year again. Cuisine Kathleen's Annual Saint Patrick's Day Crawl is today. I wait each year to see what kind of wonderful recipes, decor, and tablescapes will be created in honor of Saint Patrick's Day. This year I decided not to buy anything new and to use things that I already had. Really I had the table all set up and ready until I went to Goodwill on the way home last night. Oh My ..... I found a set of the prettiest green and yellow basket weave plaid or check pattern plates I had ever seen. With my earned discount coupon I ended up paying $.65 cents each. Well back to ground zero digging into boxes at my storage unit to find the shamrock bowls I knew I had late in the evening last night. My Revised tablescape follows.....<br />
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RICHARD GINORI MANIFATTURA DI LAVENO dinner plates sit upon Lenox charger plates and shamrock shaped salad bowls top the stack.</div>
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A hand embroidered tablecloth in fresh spring colors.</div>
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Lovely lasses dance with the wee lads and leprechauns</div>
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An old friend (my favorite lucky leprechaun) stands in a bed of faux green roses that are nestled into an old basket that has been spray painted with Rust-oleum's Oregano green paint.</div>
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Now, Just in case you are not tired of Saint Patrick's Day Tablescapes here is a link to my other tablescape celebrating Saint Patrick's Day *<a href="http://littlejosdollparty.blogspot.com/2016/03/meet-jimmy-joe-at-our-saint-patricks.html" target="_blank">Meet Jimmy Joe at Our Saint Patrick's Day Party*</a> .</div>
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Here are a couple of pictures of the Doll Party.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happy Saint Patrick's Day!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.cuisinekathleen.com/2016/03/8th-annual-st-patricks-day-blog-crawl_16.html" target="_blank">Kathleen's Saint Patrick's Day Crawl</a> </span></div>
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<a href="http://betweennapsontheporch.net/spring-easter-table-setting-with-spode-emmas-garland-bunny-centerpiece/" target="_blank">Susan's Tablescape Thursday</a></div>
Candy Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06469612721498821255noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761829894985740256.post-74246913818431061292016-02-25T16:43:00.001-08:002016-02-26T08:53:12.713-08:00Sunny Yellow and Blue TablescapeA few weeks back I was Visiting Susie's Cake Plates and Other Treasures and loving the blue and yellow tablescape that she had posted. A blue and yellow tablescape can always make my eyes sparkle especially when I had been thinking of a sunny blue and yellow tablescape too. By coincidence I had placed a very bright tablecloth in a bold yellow and cobalt blue onto the breakfast table the day before reading Susie's post. I was inspired to get into gear and get this tablescape done. After digging around in the garage a set of yellowish charger plates were found along with a set of golden yellow handled flatware. A set of sunflower plates, some cheerful spring like glassware and a few cobalt blue accent pieces were dug out of the back of the cabinets and the boxes stored under the stairs and in the garage. It took a couple of days to pull together but the result was worth it.<br />
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The cut flowers were bought at the supermarket.</div>
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Everything else was thrifted.</div>
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I will be sharing at:<br />
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<br />Candy Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06469612721498821255noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761829894985740256.post-27913223269324569072016-02-11T04:10:00.000-08:002016-02-11T07:38:20.227-08:00A Cheery Cherry Valentines Day TablescapeWith my sons coming over for Superbowl Sunday and I was in a dilemma on whether to set a Valentine's Day table or a Mardi Gras table or a football tablescape. I went with the same red, green and beige table with Valentines Day hearts that I had set for breakfast earlier that day. The plates are called Cherries Jubilee by Noble Excellence and the green plaid table cloth and napkins were made by a company called Got It Covered. My son Richard took pictures of the table for me while I was preparing the Buffalo dip for the wings that were still in the oven. I really appreciated having some really good pictures that I could use for a Valentine's Day post.<br />
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Red water glasses and flatware along with a few cherubs and hearts create a tablescape to use for a Valentine's Day breakfast or casual dinner.<br />
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Candy Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06469612721498821255noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761829894985740256.post-17024680657257653322015-12-03T17:30:00.003-08:002016-10-20T15:38:37.177-07:00A Time For Giving ThanksWe have a holiday to give thanks for the things that we have in our lives, we call this holiday Thanksgiving. We are thankful for the food that we set before our families on this day, we give thanks that we have our homes to live in, but most of all we give thanks for our families.<br />
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The table was set with Johnson Brothers The Friendly Village china (part of sixteen place settings bought at the VOA last year).<br />
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The flatware is Rogers Remembrance pattern (an Ebay purchase years ago).<br />
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The place mats came from Fabby's Blog Anniversary give away last year.<br />
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The runners and napkins are Park Designs Indian Summer pattern bought at Marc's last summer.<br />
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Green glassware from Marc's ( two for a dollar) and cabbage leaf gravy boats from HomeGoods years ago.<br />
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Candles and napkin rings were thrift store purchases last summer.<br />
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Congratulations to my son and his lovely wife at the birth of their first child, Baby Eugenia was born at 2:47 AM this morning. Now I am really Thankful!<br />
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You may like to visit my doll blog ( http://littlejosdollparty.blogspot.com/) for a fun story about how the dolls helped set the table for Thanksgiving dinner. You can read about them <a href="http://littlejosdollparty.blogspot.com/2015/12/little-jo-helps-set-thanksgiving.html" target="_blank">**HERE**</a><br />
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Little Jo's Doll party in a blog about the adventures of the dolls of our ten (ten as of this morning) grand daughters. Each of the doll is named for a grand daughter. The dolls all live at Grandma's house helping her in the garden and around the house.<br />
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Beautiful blues are have been on my mind for a long time. I have been longing to walk along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico and gather seashells and driftwood as I wander along. Just holding my husbands hand while we walk and chatter as we go. No schedules to follow, nowhere to rush off to. Just us, talking and laughing as we go along our way. The lovely aqua water of the Gulf changes it's hue as the sun travels across the sky on it's journey to yet another beautiful sunset. We'll take a blanket and settle down on the sand as dusk is approaching. Watching as the sun sinks lower on the horizon while shades of blue deepen at the waters edge and the suns ambient glow illuminates the surrounding clouds with red and golden orange streaks that are punctuated with the graceful silhouettes of a pair seagulls flying towards the sunset. Someday I will walk those beaches again, but not today. Instead I can enjoy the beautiful changing colors of the water captured in a blue on blue seascape table setting. <br />
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Last year I fell in love with a tablescape that Alycia at Table Twenty-one post called (which you can see here )-> <a href="https://tabletwentyone.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/ocean-blue-starfish-seashells/" target="_blank">Ocean Blue - Starfish & Seashells</a> the tablescape was set outside where the beautiful natural light could play off of the Akcam starfish plates with all of the colors of the ocean. As luck would have it I found the same plates at the HomeGoods Store earlier this summer. Later I found some aqua dyed seashells in the clearance isle at the same HG Store. The table was set when the sun came up the other day and provided the changing colors of blue that I wanted to replicate.<br />
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I love the way the early morning sunshine gleams off of the glass plates and the way the shadows reflect the sun rays from above. <br />
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Tiny blue fish appear to be swimming in crystal clear water in the wine glasses.<br />
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The tortoise shell like finish on the flatware glows in the morning light too. <br />
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Champagne napkins from Park design are sheathed by aqua organza that was an Ebay purchase several years ago. Layered colors of blue, aqua, and white in the candles reflect the ever changing colors of the water on the Gulf Coast. Faux sea glass table scatter has been colored aqua to help complete a beach like scene. <br />
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The centerpiece is a seashell mermaid that resides in an old lantern, </div>
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Do you see my little helpers standing at the back of the living room chair watching as I am</div>
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Two of the little ladies are named already. The little dark ash blond on the left is Cindy and the pretty blond on the far right is Becky. Becky and Cindy were adopted from an Ebay vendor a couple of weeks ago. The two dollies in the center were found living on their own at local thrift stores. I brought them home and bathed them and dressed them in whatever I could find. They were so happy to have a home and to be taken care of. The only requirement they have is that I create pretty doll clothes for them to wear and to share them on Wednesdays like JoAnn at Scene Through My Eyes does on her <a href="http://scenethroughmyeyes.blogspot.com/2015/08/wednesday-wee-ones.html" target="_blank">Wednesday Wee Ones</a> posts and like Diane at Lavender Dreams does on her Wednesday posts. I suspect that the dolls will be hanging out with my kitties watching me while I am sewing new outfits for them, and maybe they will be watching while I am creating new tablescapes for the fall too!</div>
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Just a few more pictures of this tablescape morphing while I start to dis-assemble it.</div>
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After I removed the centerpiece, picked up all of the table scatter, placed the fish wine glasses into the sink to wash, and put the flatware back into it's storage container I pulled out my old Fiesta peacock flatware and the pretty aqua champagne glasses that we had used at Easter and played tablescaper for a bit longer.<br />
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The fish netting over the grass cloth wallpaper with the bamboo table runner stands out nicely with all of the "other" stuff removed. Just a few of the aqua dyed shells and the candles remain. Much simpler!<br />
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Aqua diamond sparkle chargers bought off of Ebay. </div>
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Blue shell plates </div>
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Starfish plates</div>
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Starfish plates from HomeGoods.</div>
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Thrift store wine glasses,</div>
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Napkin rings from Marc's. Just $1.39 for a set of four.</div>
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I bought two sets.</div>
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And now for the winner of my Second Blogaversary Celebration Fall Linens give-away drawing. Dear hubby had to do the honors of drawing the winner this year. Low tech.... the names of all of the sweet people that visited and left a comment at my blog over the past two posts (one per follower) were written down on a square of note paper and placed in a hat </div>
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(that would be the straw hat that hubby wears at the beach when we are in Florida). Dear hubby closed his eyes and pulled out.........(Drum roll please)...... Susie Holler's name!</div>
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Congratulations Susie! I will need your address to send you your new Park Designs Indian Summer tablecloth and napkins. Thank you to everyone who participated this year. </div>
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<br />Candy Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06469612721498821255noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761829894985740256.post-32558095237575858482015-08-13T11:24:00.000-07:002015-08-18T04:28:13.355-07:00Seashells and Roses Coastal TablescapeI wanted to create a coastal tablescape in the soothing beach tones of a sandy beach. I used the white fish embossed dinner plates (again) with a pretty salad plate and a white shell shape bowls. I wanted to pick up on the feeling of a bridal party champagne breakfast. White roses seemed appropriate for the centerpiece along with a few well placed shells among the flowers. The concrete shell shape planter (from Marc's a decade ago) was stuffed with re-cycled Styrofoam and the white flowers from an old rose centerpiece from many years ago. I am trying to use goods from my stash to help keep costs down. <br />
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The white tablecloth is layered with an white opalescent table runner that has a 12 inch strip of grass cloth wallpaper laid down the center of it to help add a bit of neutral texture to this "By The Sea" tablescape. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL7nrWMd4HKuSoSxDOrFqhuMaZisQG35ShauSYBdTyCpBaljm_eLrcYGuPBZMzHdKa1ZmUhQ4WBf2N6lGjNx2cStQi-vGKNXvRGzOaRQx9I0trjInZ_eA2I3VDrp_s6FW-a71HNtRWVr8/s1600/P8100471.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Plum Creek Place - Seashells and Roses Coastal Tablescape - DIY Shell Encrusted Candle Holders " border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL7nrWMd4HKuSoSxDOrFqhuMaZisQG35ShauSYBdTyCpBaljm_eLrcYGuPBZMzHdKa1ZmUhQ4WBf2N6lGjNx2cStQi-vGKNXvRGzOaRQx9I0trjInZ_eA2I3VDrp_s6FW-a71HNtRWVr8/s640/P8100471.jpeg" title="Plum Creek Place - Seashells and Roses Coastal Tablescape - DIY Shell Encrusted Candle Holders " width="640" /></a></div>
White on white dinnerware is layered onto the white tablecloth. An off white napkin with a simple seashell napkin holder and white flatware help complete the sandy beach effect.<br />
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Longchamp water goblets and stemmed champagne glasses keep the neutral feel of the tablescape. </div>
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The white seabirds had their "legs" painted white (they were black) before they were allowed to land on this table.<br />
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The tutorial for the seashell covered candle holders can be found here -> <a href="http://plumcreekplace.blogspot.com/2015/08/diy-seashell-encrusted-candlestick.html" target="_blank">"DIY Seashell Encrusted Candlestick" </a> </div>
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Shells gathered from many years keep the sandy beach theme going. </div>
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Creamy white candles from Big Lots have a strip of burlap a seashell hot glued to them. </div>
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The centerpiece is setting on a piece of driftwood and surrounded by smaller shells and natural coral. <br />
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Closeup of the table covering's layers.</div>
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White rattan chargers were bought at HomeGoods from the clearance isle. <br />
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Dinner plates are by Blue Sky.</div>
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The salad plates are marked Gallery Tabletops le provence.</div>
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The shell shape bowls are marked Japan.</div>
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.The cranes were thrifted several years back.</div>
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I am celebrating my second blog anniversary this month by sharing a set
of fall tablescaping linens from Park Designs. The pattern is called
Indian Summer and includes a 60" x 84" tablecloth, and a set of napkins.
If you are one of my followers (on Google plus or Blogger) and leave a
comment on this post or my post <a href="http://plumcreekplace.blogspot.com/2015/08/diy-seashell-encrusted-candlestick.html" target="_blank">"DIY Seashell Encrusted Candlestick" </a> from August 10th. The lucky person
(aka winner) who's name is drawn will be announced at my post for August
20th, 2015<br />
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Tablecloth description: <br />
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Park Designs Indian Summer Collection, Windowpane checks are
complimented with bands of chocolate and tan with pinwheel corners.
The Indian Summer 60 x 84 Tablecloth is a lovely year-round table
covering.<br />
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Added-on 8/17/15, I set a mini tablescape using the Indian Summer table linens and my Johnson Brother's Friendly Village dinnerware so you could see a better picture of how this tablecloth and napkin set could look on your table with your favorite fall dinnerware and your favorite fall napkin rings, <br />
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A closeup of the pattern in the napkin.</div>
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A closeup of the quilt pattern around the tablecloth hemline.<br />
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Remember to thrift on ladies, thrift on!<br />
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Sharing at:<br />
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<a href="http://betweennapsontheporch.net/beach-table-setting-in-yellow-and-cobalt-blue/" target="_blank">Susan's Tablescape Thursday</a> </div>
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Christine's Table It Link Party<br />
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<a href="http://www.astrollthrulife.net/2015/08/281st-inspire-me-tuesday.html#" target="_blank">Marty's Inspire Me Tuesday</a><br />
<br />Candy Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06469612721498821255noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761829894985740256.post-71551874492980601382015-08-10T14:21:00.002-07:002015-08-18T04:22:33.168-07:00DIY Seashell Encrusted Candlestick Tutorial<br />
My Pinterest obsession has kept me very busy lately. Not only do I find myself compulsively pinning but actually trying to create copycats of the items that are really striking my fancy. The candlestick shown below is the product of one of my endeavors. I am very pleased that they came out nicely. I am also proud to report I only burned myself once with the hot glue gun and that the burn barely hurt at all. Wahoo!!!<br />
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I started with two large and and two medium candle holders from Walmart, all four</div>
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were purchased at thrift stores (one set over a year ago and one set this spring).</div>
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I had already painted one of each size last year. </div>
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I took both sets outside and painted the wood finish with three coats of Rust-oleum's </div>
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Paint Plus 2X ultra Cover in Heirloom White in the Satin finish. I freshened the candle holders that had already been repainted with another light coat of the same color.</div>
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I let them dry several hours outside before bringing them into the house. They sat on the mantle over a week to let the paint cure a bit before I started gluing shells onto the freshly painted surface.</div>
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I gathered up the shells that I had been collecting from the thrift stores for several years.</div>
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And set them on my kitchen island so that I could sort them by size and shape.</div>
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I also had bought a couple of bags of small shells from Marc's for just $1.49 per bag.</div>
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Love that Marc's close out section.</div>
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With the hot glue gun warmed up and an assortment of makeshift tools</div>
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I glued a few shells at a time in tandem to the candle holders. </div>
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I started at the bottom with just a couple of shells </div>
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As I finished each section on each candle holder I would<br />
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I added shells from left to right and building upward while matching the shells as best as I </div>
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When I was about two thirds of the way up with the shells on the candle holders</div>
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I switched to the top row and started filing the open space</div>
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Here is a sneak peak of my tablescape for Thursday.</div>
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I am celebrating my second blog anniversary this month by sharing a set of fall tablescaping linens from Park Designs. The pattern is called Indian Summer and includes a 60" x 84" tablecloth, and a set of napkins. If you are one of my followers (on Google plus or Blogger) and leave a comment on this post or on my "Seashells and Roses" tablescape coming up on Thursday August 13, 2015 (that I will be sharing at Susan's "Tablescape Thursday") you will be in on the drawing. The lucky person (aka winner) who's name is drawn will be announced at my post for August 20th, 2015<br />
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Park Designs Indian Summer Collection, Windowpane checks are
complimented with bands of chocolate and tan with pinwheel corners.
The Indian Summer 60 x 84 Tablecloth is a lovely year-round table
covering.<br />
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Remember to thrift on ladies, thrift on!<br />
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Sharing at:<br />
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<a href="http://www.astrollthrulife.net/2015/08/281st-inspire-me-tuesday.html#more" target="_blank">Marty's Inspire Me Tuesday</a><br />
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Candy Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06469612721498821255noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761829894985740256.post-10908149836211127802015-08-07T13:49:00.000-07:002015-08-09T16:51:40.313-07:00DIY Giant Clam Shell And Sunrise Seashell TablescapeDarn that Pinterest! I have spent hour after hour looking at pins of wonderful inspirational coastal ideas. I was so inspired by pictures of giant clam shell candle holders from Pottery Barn that I had to try to make a copycat giant clam shell like theirs. Jenna at The Painted Apron created a wonderful coastal setting using a a large Pottery Barn clam shell that I just adore. Pottery Barn also offered an organic and rustic looking clam shell more recently that I kind of liked too. There were others that I found on Pinterest but these two were the most inspiring giant clam shell pins for me. I tried to combine a bit of the character from each of these lovely large clam shells and came up with THIS......<br />
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A little bit rough and a little bit sleek, a combination of the inspirational photos that I found while looking for Coastal "By The Sea" pins.<br />
You can see the details about this PB clam shell here - <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">http://www.potterybarn.com/products/giant-clam-shell/<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"> Notice the rough and coarse finish on this PB shell.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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You can see Jenna's "Seafood Lunch" post here - <span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;">http://thepaintedapron.com/2012/09/20/tablescapes-seafood-lunch/ <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">See how beautiful and sleek Jenna's shell looks. </span> <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"></span></span></span></span><br />
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I started with a clear plastic (acrylic?) clam shell bowl. Amazon has a similar bowl like this in white available <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Update-International-SSB-1W-Shell-1-Quart/dp/B0037XHRS0/ref=pd_sim_21_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=1PYS3YCXKBFZSY9FP5NF" target="_blank">here at Amazon.<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"></span></a></span><br />
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I found two large clam bowls and three smaller ones at a garage sale at a very reasonable price early in the summer. When I saw them I grabbed them up right away for my future clam shell projects. I took one of the large bowls and wrapped it very snugly in Christmas red Saran Wrap with the thought that I would be able to pop the plaster shell off of the clam shell form when I was finished applying plaster of Paris to it, that did not happen (it was stuck tight).<br />
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Once the shell was wrapped with the Saran I covered it with cheese cloth that was cut to size and trimmed at the edges so as not to hang over the lip of the bowl.<br />
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I mixed one of the four one pound bags with water per the package instructions that came in the All Purpose Plaster of Paris 4LB size that I had purchased at Walmart (I did not find the four pound size on Walmart's website when I looked for it today) and very quickly applied an even coat of the mixture over the cheesecloth covered bottom of the shell. If you have good fresh POP it will be hardening within fifteen minutes or so. One of the bags of plaster did not harden up for several hours, a pretty good indication that the plaster was not fresh. The very small print on the box said made in China. Hmm..... Maybe they slipped in some old stuff at the factory. I was letting the plaster dry overnight between the coats anyway so there was no harm done. Between each coat of plaster I placed a layer of cheesecloth to add strength to the shell.<br />
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After the last of the four coats of plaster had dried overnight I trimmed out the red saran from the inside part of the bowl with a razor. That left the plastic interior of the bowl with a good smooth edge transitioning to the plaster. The plaster edge around the lip of the bowl was shaped first with an old paring knife and then I took the bowl outside to be sanded with fine sand paper for a smooth appearance. The inside of the bowl was spray painted with Rust-Oleum Paint Plus 2X ultra cover in satin finish Heirloom White to give a nice clean sleek appearance to the inside of the bowl like Jenna's inspirational clam shell bowl. The exterior got two coats of Anita's all purpose acrylic Latte (11128) Craft Paint. While the second coat of the Latte color paint was still wet I coated the paint heavily with fine gain sand from the craft store to give a coarser finish like the Pottery Barn inspiration bowl with the rough exterior. This is what it looked like after I knocked of the excess sand with a small wire brush and filled the interior with clean aquarium gravel.<br />
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I added some coral color bead strands to the surface and then added the shells and candles that you saw in the first picture..<br />
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The following "Sunrise" tablescape pictures were actually taken before the pictures from my last tablescape. I have been enamored with the color coral this summer and wanted to create a pretty white and coral tablescape. Of course I used the clam shell centerpiece that I had made plus my lovely mermaid along with white rattan chargers from the clearance isle at HomeGoods for three dollars each and the pretty coral and white striped placemats that were on clearance for $4.50 for the four piece set at TJ Max. A solid white tablecloth added extra brightness to the setting. Other than that this coral sunrise sunshine table is pretty much the same as the last tablescape I posted. Just a few pictures and even fewer words for this Tablescape.<br />
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The Giant Clam Shell centerpiece was the first of four seashell projects that I wanted to make this summer. I started a bit late but I am making steady progress on them. My next post will be on the DIY shell encrusted candle sticks that I made this past week. There will be a complete tutorial on how to create the candlesticks and a new tablescape.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">From an old Walmart Faux Wood candlestick to a shell encrusted Coastal "By The Sea" look candlestick.</span> </span></div>
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While out thrifting earlier this year I found a lovely little mermaid figurine, her name is Haley from The Sirens Of The Sea Collection from Munro Enterprises issued in 2003. She is such a pretty little thing, I knew from the moment I saw her that I would create a Summer "By The Sea" tablescape with her as my centerpiece. Isn't she Lovely? <br />
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Shades of coral and pink dominate throughout this tablescape. The thrifted table covering was cut from a four yard piece of coral and
white textured polyester, the pattern on this material reminds me of ocean waves.<br />
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The shells on the table came from thrift stores and garage sales over the years.<br />
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The wave-like pink taper candles are also a thrift store purchase, as are the polka dot champagne glasses and the pretty pink swirl stemmed sherbert glasses. <br />
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Another un-named mermaid (also thrifted) was placed back to back with Haley within a thrifted shell wreath that has a nest of coral colored beads (the beads were bought from Marc's, my favorite close-out store).<br />
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Pale coral colored napkins trimmed with creamy white lace were placed beneath shell shaped salad bowls. Pink bottles trimmed with jute twine came from the close out section at Marc's. The shell shaped "By The Sea Pattern" salad bowls were made by American Atelier. I bought them off of Ebay many years ago.</div>
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The plain white candles have a piece of material cut and frayed from an extra napkin then glued to the candle with a starfish. Faux coral was painted with Krylon's "Sunrise" spray paint.<br />
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My next post is a tutorial on making a large clam shell centerpiece and another mermaid tablescape (see teaser picture below).<br />
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Candy Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06469612721498821255noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761829894985740256.post-29838269946914706192015-06-25T14:35:00.002-07:002015-08-09T16:49:55.259-07:00Playing in the Fairy GardenMy goodness how time flies, here it is nearly the end of June and the Fairy Garden is finally about ready for the Summer. The twin fairies are happily seated beneath the China Doll tree an a pretty pink bench. The fairies take turns sitting on this bench. It seems to be their favorite spot in the garden (I think they feel secluded and safe there). There is another bench in the fairy park but the fairy babies have claimed it as their own, they like to watch the cerulean blue water as it bubbles down the creek and the babies just adore the frog pond in the park too! The China Doll plant (that looks like a tree) was dug up late last fall and brought in for the winter. It did very well in the Eastern facing window in the dining room . At the end of February I pruned all of the new growth back and took cuttings for a half a dozen new trees. At the first of April I started lightly fertilizing to encourage new bushy growth. I pinched off the tiny new branches that started to grow around the base of the plant.<br />
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When I designing the Fairy garden last summer I played with the placement
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The fences and the rest of the plants were added after the major components were in place. Last but not least I added the fairies. I spent days playing with them until I was happy with the overall effect.<br />
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Several baskets of flowers were placed on the table that the fairy garden was on and onto the table behind the fairy garden. This year I created several new fairy garden settings from old planters from last Summer (I reused the soil too). You probably have a bunch of old planters laying around too.<br />
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An old bird house, a fairy, some creeping Jenny, mini herb pants, one pop-up viola, and a mini bird bath. Plus a welcome gnome in the back.<br />
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Isn't this little thrift store fairy just the cutest little thing? <br />
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This fairy garden planter is to the left of the main Fairy Garden.</div>
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The second planter was used to create a park setting complete with a frog pond and a creek for the fairies. As I mentioned before, the baby fairies took over the park bench.</div>
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The green fairy looks bored with babysitting the infant fairy.</div>
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The main Fairy Garden planter has black fish tank gravel added this year, but other than that, it is pretty much the same. The babies have a parrot in their bird cage this year. See the mini thyme plants peaking out from under and behind the table.... they have the cutest little pink flowers.</div>
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Yes, the fairies have traded places again. The blue winter fairy is enjoying popping her toes up in the sunshine. Not to long ago she was out getting frostbite on those little toes.</div>
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Brrr.... it was a very long cold winter. It has only been a few weeks since our last frost here in the North Coast of Ohio.</div>
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The back of the Fairy Garden.</div>
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The purple fairy looks elegant in her garden setting.</div>
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A pretty little pale yellow fairy dances in a flower basket behind the castle.</div>
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The two little garden fairies in the basket below have been out picking flowers for their dinner table tonight.</div>
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There are two other Fairy planters that are sitting on another iron table next to the patio door. Both were created from thrift store buys.</div>
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I am working on two more Fairy Garden Planters, with a little luck it may stop raining within the next day or two so I can get back to working on my fairy garden.<br />
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The Korean Lilac bush in the front yard bloomed profusely this year. Last year and the year before that late frosts blackened most of the buds. This year we were home to cover them for the last frost, a couple of days later it was in full bloom.<br />
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All of the boys wanted an old fashioned country style meal like Grandma used to make. A big old mess of green beans cooked with fat back bacon and Irish potatoes quartered up and thrown in for the last twenty minutes and cooked tender in the bacon and bean juice. There were plenty of sliced tomatoes and green onions and a cake of corn bread seasoned with bacon drippings with lots of crispy fried bacon baked into the cornbread. I made fried pork chops as requested by the kids. My daddy always loved pork chops with cornbread and green beans. Oh Yum! I can cook with grease with the best of them. ~~~ Move over Paula Dean ~~~<br />
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The cake was my country version of Boston Cream Pie made per usual (yellow cake sliced and filled with vanilla pudding) but with hot fudge sauce (homemade of course) poured over the top of the cake. We did not take any pictures of the food or table on Sunday. I recreated the table during the week and waited for a day with enough light to take pictures.<br />
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This table started as an idea several years ago. I was influenced by several wonderful jungle tables that were shared on Tablescape Thursday at BNOTP over the years. With the exception of the candles, the small elephant place card holders, and the cheetah scarves that were bought at Marc's and the Tiger Charge it By Jay chargers that I bought from Christine's (<a href="http://christineshomeandtraveladventures.blogspot.com/?m=1" target="_blank">Christine's Home and Travel Adventures</a>) moving sale on Facebook, everything else was thrifted over a period of several years.</div>
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This striking zebra pattern of this duvet cover caught my eye at Goodwill a while back. It had just come in as a donation complete with the original tags. The duvet cover reversed to solid black textured velvet on the other side. I took the seams out and made a table cloth from each side. I used the black side for my New Years Eve post "A Horn Blows At Midnight" which you can see <a href="http://plumcreekplace.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-horn-blows-at-midnight-new-years.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> .</div>
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Next I laid out the cheetah pattern scarves that I had bought from Marc's and placed a thrifted basket of greens on top of the scarves (a thrifted zebra metal plaque was leaned against the basket).</div>
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The Tiger pattern of the charger plates are perfect with the dinnerware pattern.</div>
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The napkin rings were bought at the VOA last week - 16 rings for $2.99. The brass elephant place card holders were placed on top of the square napkin rings.</div>
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Giraffes and elephants as well as a tiger or two populate the Jungle's edges. </div>
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Black stemware was collected over several years.</div>
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The giraffes are from a local garage sale last year.</div>
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Tigers peek out from under my jungles canopy.</div>
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The orchids have started to bloom again.</div>
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The giraffes and the pictures on the shelves are from a garage sale that I went to last fall. When I explained that I was doing tablescapes with the stuff that I was buying they gave me a huge discount on the items I had picked out. When their daughter looked up my blog on her smart phone and they saw how I decorate the shelves to follow the theme of the table the lady having the garage sale had her husband pack up many of the items that you see here including the butterfly animal print plate and a set of zebra pattern chargers too! There are many other items from this garage sale that I will be using in upcoming tablescape posts. I am thinking another jungle table later on towards fall and another tropical "by the sea" table setting in a few weeks.</div>
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I have been occupied with packing up "stuff" to go to storage and trying to clean and repair as I go in anticipation of putting my house on the market within the next year or so. This has become an overwhelming and daunting task. I am not really up to doing a lot of the heavy work so it is a very slow go. I think I need to have a huge garage sale myself to get rid of a lot of the "stuff" instead of packing and moving it. Dozens and dozens of boxes of stuff have already taken the ride to the Goodwill to be donated over the last few months.</div>
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Candy Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06469612721498821255noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761829894985740256.post-24914258913802842272015-04-30T17:28:00.000-07:002015-05-06T09:13:48.282-07:00Pink Chocolate Girls Night Out Tablescape<span id="goog_1878317653"></span><span id="goog_1878317654"></span>Cuisine Kathleen's challenge to create a "Girls Night Out Tablescape" seemed as if it would be easy when I first thought about it. In reality this challenge sent some perplexing thoughts wandering through my mind for several weeks now. Just exactly what does girls night out mean to me? Join me on my journey as my thoughts meander through a lifetime of "Girls Nights Out" and the thoughts on creating a girls night out table setting.<br />
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As I started gathering up the different items that I had been collecting to do a girly tablescape for a year or so my mind kept wandering to thoughts all of the adventures that I had had on my "Girls Night Out" escapades through the years. One of my first memories of going out with the girls was when my girlfriend Marla's mother drove us down to the Polish Women's Hall for the weekly Friday night dance. Sounds innocent enough right? Well it was, but my Daddy had forbid me to go to these dances. Oh but we had a ball. I still remember exactly what I wore, a pretty gray sweater with a deep pink skirt and a perky pink scarf around my neck. We had so much fun dancing to a band (probably just a neighborhood band) we even hammed it up when a local TV station came in and taped the kids out dancing on the floor. I made it home before my 11 O'clock curfew and well before my Daddy came home from work on the night shift. When Daddy came home on Friday nights we would pop some popcorn and gather around to watch Ghoulardi, a Cleveland TV legend played by Ernie Anderson who later became a nationally recognized voice in commercials and TV programs. Drew Carey used to wear his Ghoulardi t-shirt on his TV show. As we settled down to watch whatever ghoulish movie that was showing that night they opened the show by broadcasting the images of the kids dancing at the local dances that evening. They had never done that before........ Well you know what happened then, I will never forget my father turning around to me (still wearing my pretty gray sweater and pink scarf) and stating with a deadpan look on his face and a flat voice that I looked just like the girl on TV. I think I was grounded forever.</div>
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I had to make a trip over to my storage unit to pick up a piece of material that I had bought at Goodwill last year. I had rolled down the window and was playing old time rock and roll (Cleveland is the Rock and Roll Capital of the World you know), it's the kind of music that gets in your soul (hehe) and reminiscing about the adventures my girl friend Dee Dee and I had with a couple of other gals from the office cruising around Southgate USA. The premier shopping center in the country at that time and the best place to be seen for a bunch of young chicks in a 1960 Corvette convertible, rain or shine, snow, sleet, or hail.... we would be cruising. I used to think the Beach Boys wrought all of those songs about us. I feel sorry for kids today, what do they have? Justin Bieber..... that thought would give me the creepy shivers.</div>
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I had to dig around in the garage to find a box of beads, a heavy box of beads. I had bought packages of different colors and styles packed together in about five pound bags for one dollar each several years ago from Marc's. I thought this would be a good time to use a few of them.</div>
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I laid out the pink and the chocolate color beads but ended up only using the chocolate color. </div>
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Pink flowers with brown stems from Marc's a few years back were perfect for the centerpiece.</div>
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When I married (at a very young age) there were no more girls nights out except for PTA meetings, cub scout and boy scout meetings, and going to TOPS club meetings and shopping with my mother. Now that I look back at it I realize that my Mom was truly my best friend. When we went out it was girls night out! We would go to dinner at Chinese restaurants (my dad was a steak man) and then go to weigh in at our TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Club meetings a few days later. We would shop and then we would talk almost endlessly. Mom and I were the feminine side of the household that I grew up in. My father and my two brothers plus three of daddy's brothers probably helped forge the relationship my mom and I grew into as I grew older. When dad and mom retired and moved south my life changed but I found new friends and hobbies but none ever replaced the relationship I had with Mom.</div>
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The pink and black ring holder shoes are perfect for a party favor.</div>
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Cute high heel desert plates are perfect for the cream horns, Baklava and petit fours cakes and tiny red velvet, salted caramel, pistachio and frosted chocolate cup cakes.</div>
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Various candies dot the table like table scatter.</div>
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Hard to tell the chocolates on the tablecloth from the Hershey's and the buckeyes isn't it?</div>
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Black champagne glasses and pink flatware.</div>
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Large black octagon chargers are layered with pink lace trimmed napkins<br />
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Mom and dad lived in North Carolina for twenty years during which time I had two more sons. Mom would come to stay for several weeks when each child was born. We would talk and talk until the wee hours of the morning. Every vacation I would pack up the kids and we would go to Grandma's house plus whatever occasion I could come up with. The eight hour drive did not seem so long going down to see Mom, once there we always had an adventure or two and we went to mom's bingo games every week. My favorite bingo games were at the VFW Hall with the veterans. The ladies axillary would host about forty veterans from the VA Hospital, one was a lady who had served as a nurse and was said be the oldest living female veteran from World War One in North Carolina, such a sweet lady she was and what an honor it was to meet her. The evening included a home cooked meal. My mom always made the steak and gravy to take for these Bingo nights. We would start cooking the steak around mid-day in her electric skillet, she would flower the steak and brown both sides and keep adding the steak to a roaster in the oven until about sixty or so pieces were ready to have homemade gravy added and slid back into the oven until they were tender. Good times. </div>
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So Mom this one's for you! I can't think of anyone that I would rather have a girls night out with, we could shop till we drop and we can eat cake till we pop! There are no more worries about counting calories now. How I wish you were here.</div>
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Candy Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06469612721498821255noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761829894985740256.post-83118584658673147712015-04-22T14:13:00.001-07:002015-04-23T08:50:57.346-07:00Pink Petals April Inspired TablescapeInspiration can pop up when you least expect it, even when you are exasperated and forlorn that an idea you have been working on has not worked out to be what you wanted. But an unexpected picture, a very lucky find, and lovely plates from a dear friend can come together in the most unexpected ways to give you a very happy outcome. A color palette from "<a href="http://design-seeds.com/home/entry/petaled-spectrum" target="_blank">design-seeds</a> ", a set of April Cornelle placemats found at the last minute, four lovely pink Bordallo Pinheiro cabbage plates and four pink and yellow napkin rings from Marigene at "<a href="http://mimi-inthemiddleofnowhere.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">In the Middle of Nowhere</a>" came together and resulted in a pretty in Pink Petals April Tablescape.<br />
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Last Thursday morning at around 10:30 AM I was out in the yard cutting dozens of daffodils that I had intended to use in a blue, yellow, and white (my favorite color combinations) tablescape to post for Tablescape Thursday at Susan's Between Naps on The Porch. The flowers went directly into a pitcher while I went upstairs to get the box that contained my white and blue soup tureen, only it wasn't in that box. As it turned out the tureen is probably in a box stored in the basement storage room at our other house and yes I did waste several hours of time looking through the boxes in the extra room upstairs and at our storage unit (a couple of miles from our home) before I remembered where the tureen I wanted was at (this getting old stuff is getting old). Despite of the fact that the tablecloth, dishes and stemware were already set on the would be blue, yellow, and white table, I just lost all interest in doing that tablescape. I was disheartened and disappointed that it would require nearly a sixty mile round trip to pick up the tureen that I needed. I consoled myself by going through the Emails of the repins from my Pinterest boards. It is my usual custom to visit the the Pinterest board of the person repinning my pins and pin one of their pins when I happened upon<br />
the Petals color palette in pinks, yellows, and coral.<br />
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I had been wanting to create a table setting using the pink Bordallo Pinheiro cabbage plates that Marigene had so kindly sent to me several months ago for a while. But the inspiration I needed to create this table setting had not come to me until now. The catalyst I needed was found latter that evening at The Volunteers of America when I spotted a set of April Cornell place mats in new condition (except for the fold mark from being stored) complete with the original labels hanging in the domestics section of the VOA. The pattern was in varying shades of pink, yellow, and spring green. I rushed home after buying these little beauties and grabbed the cabbage plates and set them on the place mats. They were perfect with the paler shades of pink in the AC place mats.<br />
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I placed thrifted Williams-Sonoma yellow dinner plates (that were already sitting on the table) under the cabbage plates, and again - they were perfect. But the dark pink, what could I use to go with the dark pink? Then I spotted the Maxcera Coral Vanilla Chintz plates I found at HomeGoods a couple of months ago, but there were only three of them. I looked at the stack of Spring plates on the kitchen counter waiting to be washed before they could be used. All of these plates had came from thrift stores over the winter and there near the top were four Fitz and Floyd pansy plates. One was a coral pink, although a bit smaller and with black markings in the center, it was similar enough to use with the Maxcera plates.<br />
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I grabbed the Anton Studio Designs green goblets that I had bought at Marc's (and had left sitting in a bag in the garage since before Christmas last year) and washed them, then placed them on the place mats with the plates. </div>
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Green floral salad bowls marked Magenta on the back of the bowls (a recent purchase from HG) </div>
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The green Lenox candle holders seemed perfect to use once again even though I had just used them in a Spring tablescape. The pale pink tablecloth is a near perfect color match for the cabbage plates and the coral napkins placed across the salad bowls are a perfect match to the dark pink of the place mats (no wonder about that! Some of the napkins still had April Cornell stickers on them).</div>
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The daffodils (plus freshly picked extras to replace the ones that had faded) were placed in a Park Design pitcher bought from our local Marc's store last year (I love Marc's close-out section). </div>
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The rose pink Lauri Gates Hampton flatware matched up perfectly with the medium pink in the AC place mats, again - perfect!</div>
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Disparate items from many different sources that all came together after viewing a pretty color pallet (called petals) and then finding the April Cornell placemats only a few hours later. </div>
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A couple of spring bunnies added a bit more whimsey to the table. </div>
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Napkin rings from Marigene.</div>
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Pink Bordallo Pinheiro Cabbage plates from Marigene.</div>
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Candy Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06469612721498821255noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761829894985740256.post-72301442376065893132015-04-08T19:11:00.000-07:002015-04-09T03:45:52.786-07:00Happy Spring Tablescape for EasterAnother Easter Sunday has come and gone. I had a wonderful day with all of my children together to celebrate Easter. We had ham, potato salad, baked beans, Slovenian sausage and sour kraut, dinner rolls, and home made pineapple upside down cake. I love cooking for my boys especially for the holidays. Of course there were plenty of leftovers so that everyone could take home enough food for another meal.<br />
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Small clay pots from Marc's (my favorite closeout store) held a foil wrapped chocolate, a small chick, and a faux daffodil in a bed of Easter Grass.<br />
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The plates are made from a clear glass plate with a quilting square decoupaged to the back (tutorial to follow at the end of this post). <br />
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Large wicker place mats (thrifted) and butter cream color Lenox charger plates (an Ebay find) start the stack.<br />
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Lenox Summer Terrace candle holders (thrifted) and cream white candles decorate the center of the table. Bunny napkin rings hold green napkins with faux flowers tucked into the folds.<br />
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The lambs were an Ebay purchase this year from Replacements at a very reasonable price.<br />
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Daffodil flatware.</div>
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A garden bunny is sitting in the middle of a bed of faux hydrangeas inside a freshly painted birdcage.<br />
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The Park Design mushroom S&P's were bought at Marc's last year.</div>
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The napkins and some of the napkin rings were thrifted (the sixth one is part of a set that Marigene sent to me). I didn't have enough of either design so I combined them.</div>
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Thrifted stemware decorated with a bee and spring flowers.</div>
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The material is a happy Ebay mistake. I had bid on and won a piece of Peter Rabbit material to use to make salad plates but as it turned out that piece was not available so the vendor offered this piece of quilting squares as a substitute for the Perter Rabbit material. The interior squares were 10 inches, just the right size for dinner plates. A thin lightweight fabric is easiest to work with.<br />
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After spreading a tarp on my work surface (AKA dining room table) I placed the material printed front up and brushed my laminating paste (Tacky glue works well too) on it's front side.<br />
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Place the front side of the material (carefully positioning it) onto the back side of the glued plate and cover the back of the material after it is on the plate with a coat of glue too. Use your brush to work out any wrinkles that may appear. </div>
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Trim the excess material after the glue has dried with a sharp razor knife. A coat of white paint sprayed or brushed on the back of the plate will intensify the depth of color if the material is thin (and light in color) like the material I used for the bunny plates. </div>
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All three cats wanted to get in on the action while I set the table. That is Prince looking out of the window (yes that is snow in the backyard). Cheetah just laid on the floor and watched my every move while sweet little Oreo hung out on the chair cushions pawing at me whenever I came by her side of the table.<br />
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Crystal candle holders are topped with teal mirrored eggs that I bought at Marc's (my favorite close-out store) and pretty Capri blue wine glasses are used as cupcake stands. The cupcakes have aqua icing although the color did not turn out as dark a blue as I wanted they are still pretty in their wine glass stands.<br />
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The cupcakes have chocolate branches (melted chocolate drizzled off the edge of a spoon over parchment paper) with store bought bees and flowers on top.<br />
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I used my reticulated chargers layered with pale aqua blue swirl plates bought at Marshall's about five years ago. Thrifted vintage Capri blue swirl bowls top the stack accompanied by a white napkin sheathed in a teal blue sheer organza napkin held together with bunny napkin rings.</div>
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Longchamp water glasses (a Goodwill purchase) and peacock blue fiesta flatware (bought off of Ebay several years ago super cheap) complete the setting.</div>
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I did not have enough of the reticulated salad plates to do the whole table but I could not resist trying them in a place setting to see how they would of looked in the stack.<br />
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The centerpiece is teal mirror pieces cemented onto a clear cylinder candle holder placed on a vintage pressed glass twelve point saucer
that is set upon a wide top crystal candle holder to elevate it. Teal
table scatter was placed on each of the twelve points surrounding the
candle cylinder. The four egg cup bunnies are sitting under the crystal
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Th dining room shelves are decorated for Easter too. There are bunnies and birdhouses over filling each shelf. The wooden boxes are from Marc's and pretty near everything else is thrifted.<br />
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Thank you for stopping by. Have a Happy Easter! ..... Candy<br />
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March 26,02015<br />
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Last year we celebrated Easter twice, on Easter Sunday and again two weeks later so that my son Chris and my DIL Zhenia could be here. We decided to combine my son Bobby's BDay, Mother's Day, and Cinco Di Mayo all together with our belated Easter celebration. The table was set for spring and Easter but for whatever reason I didn't do a post on this occasion. So I thought I would share the pictures with you today. <br />
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See the cute little chick S&P shakers? They were a gift from my sweet DIL for Easter last year. As usual this was an entirely thrifted table with the exception of the burlap table covering, the green flatware which came from Marc's (my favorite closeout store) a couple of years back, the S&P'S and a bit of miscellaneous from the stash..<br />
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The china is Mikasa's Imari Bouquet, a pretty floral pattern that I found at Goodwill near where I worked at that time. The cabbage bowls are hand painted ceramics from the 1980's.<br />
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The bunnies were used two weeks earlier for the first Easter table and just reused with a crafty clay pot centerpiece.<br />
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The centerpiece is stacked clay pots with a few artificial plants and burlap carrots from Pat Catan's a local craft store. Their everyday prices are usually lower than Hobby Lobby's or JoAnn's even with the silly coupons.<br />
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Before I removed the burlap table covering from the table I set one more table that I wasn't particularly fond of and had decided not to post it until now. I don't know why but it didn't look quite right to me. Maybe the burlap didn't suit the pattern of the dishes, I think a plain white tablecloth would have worked better. After I cropped this and that off of the pictures they look much better to me now.<br />
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I think the plates are a Patricia Brubaker design. <br />
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As usual my two BFF's were watching every move that I made - Cheetah </div>
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(doesn't he have the sweetest face?)</div>
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and the Black Prince.</div>
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Remember to thrift on ladies, thrift on, you never know what you will find. Case in point - Earlier this week I was at the Goodwill store near where I live. There was a cart of items that were just priced and waiting to be put on the shelves. As I walked up to the cart there was a lady picking up a Lladro figurine of a boy and a girl on a teeter totter in pristine condition, it was marked $8.00. This lady and I chattered for a good ten minutes about our Goodwill finds before she checked out right before me (she was so excited about her find) and we continued to chatter about the figurine while the cashier rang up her purchases. When I came home I looked the Lladro figurine up on Ebay. The ones listed there for sale there were priced from the $160.00 dollar range to upwards of $300.00...... Just sayin, thrift on........<br />
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Candy Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06469612721498821255noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761829894985740256.post-70652616036393563972015-03-11T17:37:00.001-07:002015-03-12T16:39:10.937-07:00King O'Dell Saint Patrick's Day Tablescape<br />
A happy Saint Patrick's Day to All! And a great big thank you to Kathleen at Cuisine Kathleen's for hosting her 7th annual Saint Patrick's Day Blog Crawl. All year I have collected little things here and there to put together a post for this occasion and today I get to see how my thrifty finds all come together. The centerpiece is made from a basket I found this morning at the Volunteers of America Thrift store, a wee Irish lass and her lovely harp also from the VOA, shamrock plants from Marc's (my favorite closeout store, and yellow primrose from The Home Depot (4 plants for $3.00) plus a few odds and ends from the stash.<br />
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The tablecloth is actually a four yard piece of material from Goodwill in a lovely hunter green plaid pattern. The dinnerware is the King O'Dell pattern made by Taylor Smith Taylor (a fine American made product), the flatware is Daffodil made by Rogers bought at auction from Goodwill, the Lillian Vernon shamrock placemats in the center of the table being used as a runner came from the Salvation Army Thrift Store, the Lenox candle holders came from Goodwill, Candles from Marc's, green stemware was thrifted but I don't remember where from, the Lenox chargers were bought on Ebay (cheap) last year. The green trimmed burlap napkins were bought last year when Pier One closed them out. And my favorite - the cute little Jadiete bunny rabbit salt cellars were bought at the VOA this morning when I bought the baskets.<br />
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This little lady made her debut on my table last year.</div>
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Both the Saint Patrick figure and the Irish Angel came from Marc's a few years back.<br />
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Beautiful King O'Dell</div>
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I couldn't resist adding the little sheep to the table.</div>
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I fell in love with this lovely lady the first time I laid eyes on her.</div>
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What's not to love about this St. Patrick O'Santa figure.</div>
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His music box plays "When Irish Eyes are Smiling".</div>
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The shelves have been decked out with thrifty finds too. Some are new (new to me that is) this year, some are from years gone by.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happy Saint Patrick's Day!</span></div>
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<a href="http://betweennapsontheporch.net/st-patricks-day-table-setting-and-decorations/" target="_blank">Susan's Tablescape Thursday</a> </div>
Candy Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06469612721498821255noreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761829894985740256.post-47736400247148543482015-02-12T08:50:00.000-08:002015-03-02T03:32:58.285-08:00Valentine's Day x Three TablescapeDo you ever get into the mood just to play with dishes? You know, when you keep asking yourself "what if I do this, or maybe what if I do that"? Or "how about I use blue instead of red or maybe pink"? Well this time I did all of the "what if I do's" I thought of and took pictures as I went along. I started by revamping last weeks table and stayed with the red, black, and white color scheme. I just changed up the centerpiece and switched out salad plates and glassware.<br />
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I had found playing card plates (three spades and three clubs) at the Salvation Army Family thrift store that I thought would be cute for a VDay table. <br />
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I made a centerpiece from two larger tall Valentine themed cylinder vases from the VOA and two smaller cylinder vases that matched and just filled them with the red twigs that I had used in last weeks centerpiece plus a few red hearts.<br />
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I changed out the snowflake plates on the wall for the red heart shaped plates.</div>
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I felt like tying new recipes too. <br />
I made roasted pork chops and vegetables from a recipe on the Rachel Ray Show that we had seen a couple of days earlier -> http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/food/recipes/19638_roasted_pork_chops_with_green_beans_potatoes/</div>
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Banana nut muffins from an Emeril Lagasse recipe. I substituted applesauce for half of the butter and three to four bananas instead of two -> http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/banana-bread-recipe2.html<br />
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The next morning I felt like playing with the blue and white plates I had set out for a spring redo in the china cabinets. I started by staging the wall behind the breakfast table with a combination of plates that included two of the cute little white cherub plates that I have been collecting from the thrift stores over the years.<br />
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Everything used for this table was thrifted except for the flatware which was a sidewalk sale find at Tuesday Morning, the mini cake stands that are from Marc's close out department, a couple of the little cherub figurines came from Marc's a few years back, and the white twigs also from Marc's close out department before the holidays. Gosh I love that store.<br />
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The little crochet heart was found at the VOA a year or two ago. The plates with the tiny blue hearts were also thrifted I think from the VOA.<br />
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The large blue heart shaped plate was bought at the Goodwill thrift store a couple of days ago. all of the cobalt glass was thrifted over the years.<br />
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I love the little heart trimmed blue and white napkin rings that I found several years ago at the VOA. They are such a pretty shade of blue and work so nicely with the napkins. The napkin rings came in a bag that included a identical set of napkin rings in pink.</div>
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The pink heart glassware came from Goodwill a few weeks back,</div>
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I thought the pink hearts looked nice with the pink icing on the cupcakes.</div>
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The blue and white vase used in the centerpiece and the cherub vases were from several years ago.</div>
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This is one of the variations I was playing with for this table. Notice the napkins and the sponged blue heart glasses were changed out. I found the sponged glasses at the GW a couple of days ago.<br />
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We had sunshine for a couple of hours today that really brightened up the kitchen. The light is coming in from the patio doors and the Palladian window in the family room. There are no direct sources for natural light in the kitchen only the overhead lighting.<br />
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The alternate setting is pictured below.</div>
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The blue plum plate is Bordello Pinheiro </div>
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from the close out isle at Home Goods</div>
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Coaching plates are made by Oxford in Brazil.</div>
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Williams-Sonoma Brittany plates (there are six of them) from the VOA.</div>
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And the candles were also thrifted.</div>
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While I was waiting for my camera to download the pictures of the blue Valentine's Day table (sometimes it can take an hour or two) I thought I would set up a pink and red table just for grins and giggles. I came across the boxes of red transferware that I have not used for years when I was looking for my cherub candle holders (which I did not find) and brought some of the plates down for the table and to change out the plates on the wall along with the valentine plates.</div>
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After changing up the wall plates I placed a thrifted pale pink vase filled with white twigs from Marc's (99 cents a bunch) and glitter hearts from a garage sale a couple of years back.</div>
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The place settings may seem familiar because I was inspired by Susan's Post from February sixth, 2012. That is the table that brought me to an epiphany moment in my life. Ever since I laid eyes on Susan's VDay table tablescape I knew I had to create tablescapes too. Link to Susan's Post <a href="http://betweennapsontheporch.net/valentines-day-table-setting-welcome-to-the-181st-tablescape-thursday/" target="_blank">Candlelit and Romantic</a><br />
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My romantic tablescape</div>
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If you remove the heart shaped cookies, The heart decorated napkin sheath, and the hearts in the centerpiece this is really an all occasion table. It really does not scream valentines day at all. </div>
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The cookies were bought at Big Lots last year (I froze them to keep for this year) the heart napkins are from Marc's three for 99 cents (I love that store) Ruffled napkins are being closed out at Pier 1 right now. If you want to buy the ruffled napkins from Pier 1 be prepared to spend a lot of time trimming loose threads off, the quality is not the greatest, even at their closeout price I had to think really hard about buying them.<br />
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The Players:</div>
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Salad plate is marked Seltmann Weiden Bavaria W. Germany</div>
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The mixed pattern dinner plates</div>
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The key to my heart (thrifted of course)</div>
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Thrifted stemware. The flatware is from Tuesday Morning sidewalk sale. </div>
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I am pretty well exhausted after running up and down the stairs (I don't really run I kind of hang onto the railing and ascend and descend very slowly clutching my treasures in one arm)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have a Wonderful Valentine's Day!!!</span></div>
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I hope you have plenty of time to play no matter what (or who) it is you want to play with.</div>
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Remember to thrift on ladies, thrift on.</div>
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I will be sharing at the following link parties:</div>
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Candy Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06469612721498821255noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761829894985740256.post-77248335231909004722015-02-06T16:49:00.002-08:002015-03-02T03:34:09.825-08:00Valentines Day Par-Tay TablescapeToday is Friday, February 6th, 2015 and that means it is time to Par-Tay over at Laurie's along with her Co-Host the Queen of Hearts. I thought I would tie in my totally thrifted/thrifty Valentine's Day Tablescape in with my Par-Tay table. Virtually everything came from Goodwill, The Salvation Army Thrift Store, The Volunteers of America, garage sales and darn near free odds and ends from Marc's Close Out Department.<br />
I even got crafty for the occasion. So join me as I show you how I created a really thrifty Valentines table plus a couple of variations to the centerpiece and the place settings.<br />
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The first centerpiece is a Valentine's Day Letter box made from a plane red letter box like they sell at Target and craft stores. A previous owner had fashioned a wooden stand for it from three pieces of wood.<br />
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I used a product called The Photo Laminator to glue the materials to the mailbox. Any tacky glue would work equally as well. I started by thoroughly cleaning the box and stand and then cut up an old napkin that was stained to apply to the letter box. After that I applied the trim pieces and bow. Once the letter box was dry I cut the material to cover the wooden base from an old black and white polka dot napkin. Other pieces of trim were cut from some black and white polka dot ribbon that had been wrapped around ornament packaging several years back. The red heart ribbon came from marks at least 10 years or so ago. The ribbon was priced at 2 rolls for 99 cents and each roll had 25 yards of ribbon. I use it sparingly nowadays. You may recognize the black plaid material on the base from the kitchen chairs that I recently recovered.<br />
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Notice the little red metal baby carriage on the open door of the letter box. The little valentine was a download, and the snowflake was left over from Christmas. There is a small red Christmas bird ornament clipped to the top of the letter box where it closes. You probably recognize the truck from my Christmas Village -> <a href="http://plumcreekplace.blogspot.com/2014/12/christmas-village-copycat-tablescape.html" target="_blank">Copycat Tablescape </a>. The little flower pots came from Marc's, they were originally priced at 99cents each. Evidently they were slow movers and the new Easter merchandise was coming in so the pots were in baskets at the end of the isles and marked "free" <br />
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All items on this table were thrifted through the years.</div>
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The red dinner plates (marked Pier 1) were one dollar each from Goodwill</div>
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The red heart salad plates were 50 cents each from the VOA</div>
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The white battemburg lace doilies were 2 for 99 cents from the VOA</div>
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The Coco Cola flatware was 25 cents per piece from Goodwill</div>
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The Red gingham check glassware is from Goodwill 50 cents each.</div>
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The white eyelet trimmed tablecloth is from Goodwill $2.00</div>
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The tea table topper (appliqued and embroidered) was 1.00 from Goodwill.</div>
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The letter box was $1.50 from Goodwill</div>
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The red gingham napkins are 2 for $1.00 from goodwill </div>
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The black checked napkin sleeves were made from scraps </div>
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The red geranium napkin rings are to old to remember where and when</div>
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The grapevine plate decor came in a bag of about twenty for $3.00</div>
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Keep in mind I always have my 10 percent senior discount, and I almost always have a 20 percent off discount card for donating. I also get a 35% discount card after spending one hundred dollars. Believe me - I use my discounts!</div>
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Estimated total cost of $16.00 to $20.00 to design and set this Valentine's Day table</div>
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Now you may ask yourself why is this crazy lady listing the prices of all this thrift store stuff. Well that would be because Wanda over at A Wandaful Thing is doing a frugal thrift store Valentine's Day Tablescape challenge that must cost twenty dollars or less to make the tablescape. Here is the link if you would like to get in on the fun at Wanda's Challenge -> <a href="http://awandafulthing.com/2014/12/31/challenge-make-it-pretty-january-challenge-2/" target="_blank">awandafulthing.com</a></div>
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The only thing actually bought to do this table was the letter box $1.50 - Everything else came from the stash</div>
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Alternate looks for the table</div>
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The red and white container in this alternate centerpiece was part of a three piece set from goodwill and is made from stained glass. <br />
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The blizzard from earlier this week left one of the residents of the fairy castle stranded. She was found perched precariously atop the snow laden trees calmly awaiting rescue after the storm let up.</div>
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The other residents of the castle are assumed to be alive and well inside the castle. It is thought that by April a rescue team will be able to plow out the snow and rescue them as well.</div>
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Candy Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06469612721498821255noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761829894985740256.post-27106120662735848932015-02-03T10:38:00.002-08:002015-02-05T07:51:04.105-08:00Woodland TablescapeHappy Groundhog Day!!<br />
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In honor of Groundhog Day I wanted to creat a woodland table setting from the little critters that were decorating my Winter Woodland Mantel and a collection of woodland themed dinnerware that I have bought thru the years at thrift stores. I am particularly fond of racoons, if you have ever had a family of little racoon babies come visiting you know how hysterical they can be to watch. The item that inspired this table was a collection of two handled soup bowls from the National Wildlife Federation decorated with various woodland animals. Everything else used for this table was purchased over the years to go with the soup bowls and to eventually be able to create this tablescape.<br />
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You may remember the little big eyed racoons from the Thanksgiving Hunt Tablescape I created in 2013<br />
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You can see the rest of that post here -> <a href="http://plumcreekplace.blogspot.com/2013/11/thanksgiving-hunt-tablescape.html" target="_blank">Thanksgiving Hunt Tablescape</a>. I did find another one of these cute racoon figurines last summer and used both of them in this post.<br />
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Last summer the male racoon that had been raiding our bird feeders decided to visit our patio, he came up to the patio door and stood up (like a prairie dog) and just stared into the house. As you might expect my four cats went into a frenzy, little Oreo's back arched straight up into the air as she screeched a scream of the undead. The "boy's", Cheetah and the Black Prince, stood back crouching on their hind legs while emitting a low pitched growl that sent chills down my back. Baby (my sweet little girl cat) stood back and and watched the hysteria of the the other cats. Baby was the Grand Dame of the house, at age seventeen she had the sense to not approach the door and stand back while the other cats went ballistic. Now mind you that I jumped up and slammed the sliding glass door shut within a few seconds, but our visitor the wily racoon continued to stare into the house for several more minutes.<br />
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Several days later Ricky Racoon (I named the male Ricky after Ranger Rick in the children's magazine) came back and brought a lady friend with him. The lady in question had a belly that appeared to be dragging the ground. Again Ricky Racoon raised himself up on his hind legs and stared into the house and stayed there with his lady for several minutes. Again the door was slammed shut.<br />
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There was a reason that the young couple started to come around the patio. Their food sources at the feeders were empty. Ours were empty because we quit filling them in August and September because of the abundance of seeds from the sunflowers and black eyed Susan's around our patio provide a feast for the birds in late summer. Norma, our next door neighbor moved away and our new neighbor not only did not fill the feeders that Norma had left behind but she threw the feeders out and removed every plant and flower in the entire yard leaving the yard barren. My neighbor on the left had gone camping for several weeks with her husband so her feeders were all empty too. <br />
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Now racoons tend to be very smart, young master Ricky Racoon had noted that Boots (the stray cat) we had been feeding on the back patio would occasionally knock a few bits of dry food onto the patio so Ricky Racoon had been doing clean up duty after we were tucked in for the night. I should imagine that his train of thought was that if I fed stray cats why wouldn't we feed him. As the situation became more desperate for Ricky and his lady they started coming around at all times of the day and night and eating the food that had been set out for Boots. We started filling the feeders again and our little friends did not come around for a while.<br />
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Several weeks later we were watching TV in the family room when later all holy heck broke loose. It seemed if there were little racoon babies everywhere, darting from here to there as if they wanted to be in a thousand places all at the same time. Under the tables, between the legs of the chairs, around and around the baskets of flowers, up, down, around and around. They were everywhere, or so it seemed because of their erratic darting maneuvers.<br />
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My cats were screeching and screaming, darting from window to window and back to the patio doors and around and around the house. <br />
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In reality there were only four of the little baby racoon critters bouncing off of the walls on the patio, but they moved so fast that it seemed more like a dozen of the little dudes marauding like a band of banshees in the late evening hours on the patio. The proud Papa racoon would stand back as the babies were searching out for any crumbs of food that they could scrounge up. <br />
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But there were few scraps to be found. We were feeding Boots and quickly removing his plate and taking the leftovers to the garage until Boots would come back to snack again before nightfall. We had created a food shortage thinking that the youngsters would move on and find their natural food sources in the woods. Not so..... Trash cans were spilled over at night after they were set on the curb for trash day spilling garbage onto the lawns throughout the neighborhood. Every home where our neighbors would keep food out for their dogs and cats were visited by the racoons to scrounge the scraps that might remain in the bowls.<br />
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Finally one night when I went to bed early so that I could be to work early the next day I could hear my neighbors dog from three houses down barking incessantly. As the minutes were dragging by listening to that dog bark non-stop I was going crazy. I slammed the bedroom windows down and crawled back into the bed and put the pillows over my head trying to squelch the high pitched sound of the little yippie dogs barking. But to no avail. Five or ten minutes later I ran down the stairs and stepped out onto our patio just as the owner of the offending dog finally stepped out to see what her dog was barking about. And then the screaming started. Oh my God!, Oh my God, over and over again. She was screaming at the top of her lungs. Her beloved little pet had been chained to the post supporting her patio cover while the marauding baby racoons were darting back and forth tormenting the little pup while they were trying to get to the dog food left in a bowl on the porch. Papa and mama racoon were prowling back and forth to protect their little babies and generally intimidating the pup while he barked and barked. By this time all of my neighbors were out to see what the heck was going on. The barking pup was rescued and the dog food was removed from the neighbors patio. I gather that the HOA had something to do with providing traps, in any case the baby racoons disappeared from the neighborhood very shortly thereafter. Papa racoon is still alive and well.<br />
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Tea towels bought at Marc's (my favorite close-out store) for 79 cents each, Faux deer antlers for place cards bought at Walmart packaged at two for $1.99 per set. These are the only two items on this table bought at retail. Everything else was thrifted.<br />
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Sango splash plates from Goodwill at one dollar each and racoon napkin rings five in a package for $1.91 for the set at the VOA.<br />
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Various critters and pinecone candles gathered through the years while thrift shopping.<br />
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Soup cups marked The National Wildlife Federation bought for fifty cents each a long time ago at the GW store.<br />
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Flatware thrifted over the years at the Goodwill store.<br />
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Bill Blass bark candles bought for 50 cents each from Goodwill last summer.<br />
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Adorable bear candle sticks from the VOA.<br />
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Salt and pepper shakers bought at the VOA at the some time as the Bear cups.<br />
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My ever present friend, confident, and helper Cheetah had been napping on the chair tucked under the tablecloth. Yes I rudely awoke him for this picture. He likes to sleep on the chair covers that I made for the chair seats before Christmas, the chairs are sporting a fresh coat of paint too.<br />
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I will be participating at Laurie's Valentine's Day Par-Tay on Friday February 6th with a Valentine's day table that is entirely thrifted and some craft projects made with thrifted supplies. Please stop by Laurie's on Friday and check out all of the fun!<br />
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The kitchen table is covered with craft supplies gathered at thrift stores over the years. I have to get busy so I can participate at the Par-Tay on Friday. Here are a few of the items I am working with for my thrifty Valentine's Day projects.<br />
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gosh, it looks like I am going to be very busy so that I can pull this all together for Laurie's Par-tay.<br />
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Most of you know that the North Coast of Ohio as well as the entire Midwest of the country has been dealing with bitter cold and blizzard like conditions lately. But you know what, the sun came out and people went to work, children had snow days, and we all did just fine.<br />
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Have a great week and remember to thrift on ladies, thrift on......<br />
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I will see you at the following link parties:<br />
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<a href="http://www.thededicatedhouse.com/2015/02/make-it-pretty-monday-week-127.html" target="_blank">Kathryn's Make it Pretty Monday</a><br />
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<a href="http://betweennapsontheporch.net/valentines-day-table-setting-in-plaid-and-paisley/" target="_blank">Susan's Tablescape Thursday</a> Candy Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06469612721498821255noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761829894985740256.post-70520957455834142102015-01-10T18:32:00.000-08:002015-01-22T12:06:10.166-08:00Got Snow? Winter Snowman TablescapeIf you live in our Southern States you probably have not had much (if any) snow this year but if you live in the Northern States you may have already had enough snow for the whole winter even though there is better than two months of snowy weather to go yet. We spend most of our evenings in the family room with my husband watching TV while I work on my blog and visit around to other blogs to see what they have been up to. When I am not out visiting or working on my blog I am usually looking out the patio doors at whatever seasonal decor and plants I have on the patio. But in the winter there is not much to see except snow, and there is a lot of snow out there right now. To make the view more interesting I moved my fairy garden tub by the window to keep it a little closer to the house so that I could see it and to keep it out of most of the high winds and maybe a little warmer. After I took the China Doll tree out of the fairy garden tub in the fall (and brought it into the house for the winter) I placed a faux pine tree in the container and some ceramic seasonal decor. As the blizzard from the night before last was piling up around the garden I could not resist adding a couple of Winter Fairies to the scene. The next morning I could see the sun shining brilliantly on the fairy garden This is what I saw.............<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">The fairies appeared to be enjoying themselves playing in the snow with the snowman that I had placed in the garden with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"> Do they worry if the roof will collapse under the snow load.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Do they contemplate nature and have lively discussions with snowmen?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Dollar store snowflakes are scattered about the table with one placed on each plate. Vintage snowmen have been gathered together on the table around a centerpiece of white twigs and blue glittered pinecones. Thrift store napkins are placed in the white snowflake napkin rings that Marigene sent to me before Christmas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Vintage snowmen were all thrifted except one that I bought on Ebay.</span></div>
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Candy Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06469612721498821255noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3761829894985740256.post-76523982523029976762014-12-31T13:09:00.001-08:002015-01-06T15:33:20.952-08:00The Horn Blows At Midnight New Years Eve TablescapeIf you are a person of a certain age such as I am you will remember watching Jack Benny in the comedy New Year's Eve movie "The Horn Blows at Midnight". My brothers and I were allowed to stay up late and watch this movie each New Years Eve (and sometimes "The Canterbury Ghost"). We would cheer on Jack Benny at the end of the movie as he hung off of the hands of the clock with the coffee and the cream pouring on the elaborate clock face. You will have to watch the movie if you want to know if Mr. Benny does indeed get to play the horn at midnight.<br />
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When I found A set of napkin rings with a jazz musician playing the saxophone last summer, I knew they would be used in a New Years tablescape. The horn napkins (Vera) were thrifted at the Salvation Army several years ago. <br />
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The Horn Blows at Midnight New Years Tablescape.<br />
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Now I call that a napkin ring with personality!<br />
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Mirror tiles were bought from Marc's last winter, clear stemware is from Goodwill, Red flutes were bought at Home Goods with the gift card from Kathleen from her giveaway last Christmas. Chargers were from Home Goods a year or two ago, Silver diamond pattern dinnerware was my Christmas present from my Sweet Hubby (I picked them out of course). The flatware is Yamazaki's Holiday Bouquet pattern.<br />
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You may be wondering why there is a lobster on the table. Well this particular lobster is called Lucky Louie. He once decorated my favorite majolica serving dish. Well the dish and Louie separated ways when Cheetah my boy cat went and jumped up onto the kitchen island one day last summer. It would be fair to say it was not a good landing.... the serving dish went flying and shattered on the floor. However, Lucky Louis was unscathed by his adventure of flying through the air for what I would call a good landing!<br />
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Make sure to stop by and see my 2014 Year In Review post - <a href="http://plumcreekplace.blogspot.com/2014/12/plum-creek-place-looks-back-at-2014.html" target="_blank">Plum Creek Looks Back at 2014</a> <br />
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<a href="http://plumcreekplace.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-gingerbread-christmas.html" target="_blank">A Gingerbread Christmas</a><br />
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Happy New Year Y'all!<br />
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I will be sharing at:<br />
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<a href="http://betweennapsontheporch.net/warming-up-the-new-year-with-a-woodland-table-setting/" target="_blank">Susan's Tablescape Thursday</a><br />
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<a href="http://rootedinthyme.blogspot.com/2014/12/happy-new-year-2015-everyone-and-simple.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RootedInThyme+%28Rooted+In+Thyme%29" target="_blank">Jody and Stan's Sweet and Simple Fridays</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.rustic-refined.com/2015/01/table-it-link-party-34.html" target="_blank">Christine's Table It Link Party</a><br />
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