Saying 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.......

Perhaps you may remember way back in April 2014 a post of mine called Here Comes Peter Cottontail.

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. 

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. 

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.

There were small bunnies

 There were garden bunnies.

There were fat bunnies.

There were long and skinny bunnies.

There were white bunnies and brown bunnies.

There was a bunny on a basket.

And a bunny in a cage.

Even a bunny Peter Cottontail Tea Set

There were many Clothtique types of bunnies across the tablescape doing all kinds of Easter bunny chores.

Most of all a tablescape is about the dinnerware,  glassware, and flatware.

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.

Hop Along Mr. Cottontail,  Hop along that long and winding Bunny Trail.  Happy trails to you,  until we meet again.

Happy Easter to all........

Happy Spring Tablescape for Easter

Another 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.

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.

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).

Large wicker place mats (thrifted) and butter cream color Lenox charger plates (an Ebay find) start the stack.

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.

 The lambs were an Ebay purchase this year from Replacements at a very reasonable price.

 Daffodil flatware.

A garden bunny is sitting in the middle of a bed of faux hydrangeas inside a freshly painted birdcage.

 The Park Design mushroom S&P's were bought at Marc's last year.

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.

 Thrifted stemware decorated with a bee and spring flowers.

The following is a  tutorial to make the decoupaged plates.

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.

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.

 I placed a clear glass plate on a large can to raise my work surface

and brush the glue over the back of the plate covering it completely.

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. 

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.

Please note:  Adding a coating of a clear sealant on the back will help to make the plates easier to clean. 

(do not submerge in water)

and

 Voila!

Have a wonderful day!

Remember to thrift on ladies, thrift on!

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Blue Bunnies Tablescape

Don't you just hate it when you plan something and it just does not happen?  I had planned to do a "Frozen" tablescape in December for sweet hubby's grand daughters (with the pretense of using his son's birthday as the reason for the occasion) and as luck would have it they were not able to make it before Christmas.  We decided to reschedule for right after Christmas which would have been fine by me.  As the date approached we found out that both grand daughters and their brother had come down with mononucleosis.  The poor babies stayed sick for weeks.  Because the kids did not recover right away we did not reschedule at that time.  Fast forward to this past week when I was about to pack up the plates that I had planned to use for the Frozen tablescape I thought to myself, why not do a blue Easter tablescape before I pack up everything until next Winter.  Why not?  I have a pretty aqua blue table scarf to use and four cute aqua blue bunny egg cups that I found at Walmart for a centerpiece,  this could work out just fine! I washed and ironed the scarf and napkins and set the table with the new bunnies and my "Frozen" stash.  Ta-dah!  The Easter table I hadn't planned!

 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.

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.

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.

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.

Longchamp water glasses (a Goodwill purchase)  and peacock blue fiesta flatware (bought off of Ebay several years ago super cheap) complete the setting.

 

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.

 Teal and aqua table scatter is dispersed across the tabletop.

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 candle holder.

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.

 Thank you for stopping by.  Have a Happy Easter! ..... Candy

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